Skull: Lateral View

This plate was a doozy. 37 items. Took 16:25. Slowing Down! That's an average of 26 seconds per, a huge increase from last week.

Of course, the exhaustion is an issue. I can go through a 6 item plate and a 15 item plate really easily, but a 37 item plate... that is a lot to cram in at once.

I really felt it in testing; I missed two that I knew I should have gotten, but I was getting impatient and tired.

I ended up only getting 32 out of 37, and I didn't remember an important word (did not properly encode the word "deep" in one of the images). But I ended up counting this as right in the practice test, because I just didn't have the heart to mark the whole "Groove for posterior deep temporal artery (temporal bone)" wrong because of the word "deep".

So, only 86%. Not good enough. On the next plate, I'll have to improve my times. 

One problem I ran into is encoding the mnemonic images onto the exact location of the item. I was slightly off on my placement of the "pterion" and the "mastoid process (temporal bone)". I have to concentrate next time on really burning the onto the representative structure.

The other way to improve is to take breaks. I think even 16 minutes straight is a bit too long. I need to take mini-breaks every 10 minutes. Maybe 30 seconds every 10 minutes, just to give my brain a breather.