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MCCQE Practice Questions

April 27, 2006 By: DancingSamurai Category: My Life

One of my classmates found this awesome site with over 7000 MCCQE review questions. With answers and everything!

The problem is that their scripts are screwed up — they were quite noble and tried to have a show/hide answers functionality, but it’s not working.

Luckily, after a few minutes of searching in the huge world of Firefox extensions, I found an adequate solution.

Fortunately, the authors of the site are using stylesheets properly. I installed the EditCSS addon (make sure to close & reload firefox).

Then hitting Ctrl-8 pulls up the editCSS sidebar, showing you the stylesheet of the site you’re viewing.

For the non-computer geeky, all that code might look daunting, but it’s really easy to toggle the highlighting. This is the relevant section:

#highlightfont
   {
   color:black;
   font-size:13pt;
   font-weight:bold;
   font-family:Arial;
   font-style:italic;
   }

Now one could change/edit all that to equal the #normalfont section, but that’s too much work. Just cheat and introduce an error in the sheet (say by adding a # before the opening { ) and presto, it’ll change the answers to a uniform white. Delete the character and they’re highlighted again.

#highlightfont
#   {
   color:black;
...

I’m sure this could be automated with a greasemonkey script, but I’m trying to study medicine, not programming or DHTML, so this’ll have to do. :)

UPDATE: Apparently some of their other pages are more complex, requiring an even simpler solution. In the EditCSS window, simply select ‘Action -> Clear’ to wipe the eintire style. Reload to get it back. Simple!

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