I think I missed a couple of “easy” ones on these blocks. Felt good overall.īlocks 4-5: Were kind of awful, felt quite difficult and broke my confidence a little bit.īlock 6: Felt a little better, but was still trying to recover from blocks 4 and 5.īlocks 7-8: Were a mix of easy and tough questions. I also did like 3 or 4 blocks of wrong questions in uworld but that was it, I am not a fan of doing qbanks over and over.īlocks 1-3: I felt relieved to see questions were similar to uworld but with weird questions every now and then. Towards the end of my prep I read the subjects I felt weak in MTB 3, I thought it was helpful somewhat. KapSim Test 1: 71% (I don’t remember exactly when I did it, I was maybe halfway through uworld)įRED (free 150): 90-something percent (2-3 days before the test).
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I like doing them towards the end of my prep after I have covered almost all of the material and have the qbanks nearly finished. These are key I think, they help you gauge and fine tune your prep and if you get good scores they give you a great confidence boost, don’t use them to predict your score, specially for Step 2 CK, however you should be able to comfortably pass all of them (try to get a score in the 230-250 range). I also kept a notebook where I wrote down high yield stuff from the qbank and reviewed it before the test (tables, algorithms and such).įor both qbanks I did 2 blocks per day back to back during the morning and then used the rest of the day for reading the explanations. Explanations are for the most part excellent, I suggest reading ALL of them regardless if you had the question right or not. Did it all in random timed 44 question blocks, scored 78%. – Felt relatively easy compared to Kaplan’s. Scored 68% on it, I started it subject-wise after finishing the corresponding lecture notes and videos, and then when I was done with all subjects I did it random timed. I would only recommend doing it BEFORE uworld and only if you have enough time for it. I found it worthwhile though because it helped a great deal for me for time management. Questions are longer and I believe they help you practice time management. – Low yield qbank, felt more difficult than uworld. I think they work best if you read them before tackling uworld and then keep reviewing them while working on the qbank(s). They may be overhyped a little bit and are not a panacea but I believe they are an excellent companion for uworld. The newer videos may be worth it, as with Kaplan talk to somebody that has taken a newer course. Repeating topics once again from Kaplan I think it did help, but in general I would suggest avoiding these videos altogether except for subjects you may feel weak in. On the contrary I did not find these 2011 videos too helpful or high yield to be honest. – I used DIT for step 1 and thought it was worth the boredom.
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These are the materials I used in the order I used them (although there was some overlap):ġ. Length of preparation was 5-6 months and I started studying approximately 1-2 months after taking Step 1.
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