USMLE Step 1 Experience 272 100th Percentile Introduction I did not study for Step 1 until the beginning of 2nd year of med school, which is always a point of controversy amongst students, but as you can see it worked out ok. Towards the end of dedicated, confidence is more important than knowledge. Again congrats bro! 11pm – 12 am – finished anki if I hadn’t finished it, and watch pathoma, Youtube videos, Sketchy. After graduation I moved to U.S. thanks for taking the time to write this out. 8pm – 11pm: UW review 20 q, dinner, UW review last 20 q. I prepared some food for next day (high protein and fat, low carbs snacks), water, printed my permit, packed my glasses, eyedrops for lubrication, and ID, and was in bed by 10:30 pm. EDIT: realize you already answered this. It helped me condense all the information and made review much simpler. My biggest problem with nbme is that the questions often don’t give enough info/are in a weird style compared to UW. What matters is that no matter the difficulty, the grading is fair, True, everybody gets a different exam. That's why I always felt a little better with UW than NBME. But if you've put in the work I don't see how you couldn't make solid educated guesses on most of those. The only Anki I did was just prior to dedicated (Pepper deck for micro), and throughout dedicated (Pepper deck for pharm + dorian deck for anatomy). So here it is. I appreciate your insight a ton, What're your thoughts on your first pass of Uworld vs your NBME scores? Everyone told me that and I … USMLE Step 1 Experiences samuel 2018-05-25T23:36:02-07:00 Learn how ordinary students scored above 250 on the USMLE Step 1 exam. How much of pure biochem (cycles, RNA/DNA stuff) would u say u saw? USMLE Step 1 is the first national board exam all United States medical students must take before graduating medical school. Trust your scores and preparation, you have worked hard and that will show in the exam day. DO student, planning on taking Step 1 in early July with COMLEX 3-4 days after. Different versions of the exam are of different difficulty. He gave Step 1 in his 3rd year of medical school. First, felicidades dejando en alto a los latinos brother, great job. Yep, that's the one! The pass rate is nearly 100%. I'm 40% through uworld and scored a 200 on nbme 22 last week, lil discouraged. I went to the clinic from 1 pm to 6 pm so this is what my day looked like. Pretty nice library, not going to lie, wish I heard from it sooner. I feel like mine was pretty even. People And this is coming from someone who was so stressed out about this exam you might as well have called me SIG E CAPS. Press J to jump to the feed. When I take the nbme’s it feels like a shitshow vs UWorld I feel like I have a good grasp of what the question is asking 90% of the time. I also had several repeat questions/images/concepts from NBME 18 (only NBME I took). The truth is that when I started UW, my scores were LOW: 30-40%. FINAL WORDS: As I said it is normal to feel like you know nothing. Use what works for you. Went to the test center and arrived by 30 min earlier, as instructed. My exam was extremely different than this and free 120 was a walk in the park in comparison. I am an IMG from Mumbai and took my Step 1 currently in my 3rd year of med school (2015). But Step 1 is a measure of basic science competency. Good luck to you, and feel free to message me if you have any questions or if you just need someone to talk to. Just give them your best guess and move on. I'm at the point you were after 6 months and this definitely just helped me solidify future plan and gave me a boost of confidence. USMLE Step 1 is the first national board exam all United States medical students must take before graduating medical school. Everyone has access to the same resources. Man you’re awesome, thanx for sharing your experience. I didn't know there was a neuro one, but if it's as good as the anatomy PDF then you'll really benefit from it, How many questions do you think you got right? Any suggestions? From 170 to 250 in 8 Weeks! There were a few every block, and there was one really difficult block that had more than a few. NO baseline... you guys may not believe this but I don't think I would have gotten >150 on a baseline NBME. Do not read anyone’s “Step 1 experience and post-exam thoughts”. I took it recently and I'm really stressed about the score, I'm gonna sound crazy lol, but how may questions do you think you got wrong on the actual exam. Do the dorian anatomy deck based on the 100 Anatomy Conceptions PDF. Do you feel finishing uworld a second time boosted your score? Trust what you know, and for the last week, focus on knowledge consolidation. But I kind of knew I am ready for this. Hell, I barely even did 1/3rd of Pathoma with my classes. Sketchy pharm also got me lots of questions right regarding physio. If you are viewing this on the new Reddit layout, please take some time and look at our wiki (/r/step1 Biostats and ethics are big. First off congrats man that's a great score. If you are viewing this on the new Reddit layout, please take some time and look at our wiki (/r/step1 Thanks man! Remember I said ~1/2 my exam was easy. Also, I counted about 10 repeats of either direct questions or of the same concepts tested by the Free 120. Weirdest questions were ethics which I prepared for by reading up on all these obscure scenarios and laws, but all you really needed was WWJD. - Duration: 12:44. Thank you for that. Do not stress if you didn't do it. A lot of my friends said they experienced an extra difficult block. My Step 1 Experience: What I Did Wrong & What I’d Do Differently → 6 comments Tina says: May 22, 2019 at 2:51 pm Your post was something that I really needed. USMLE step 1 experience Hey everyone, This subreddit motivated me a lot during my preparation for this exam, I used it as a guide and a learning tool. Played some FIFA20, watched movies, and tried to relax. The principles in those first three chapters covered about 20-30 questions on my exam, I suck at biochem... B&B + UW biochem with annotation into FA over-prepared the fuck out of me. You're gonna see some WTF questions. Sorry for any grammar/spelling/writing mistakes, thank you for taking the time to write this up. Many of you asked me to write a post on my exam day experience. Ditto to everything you said! That means ~140 questions were not outright easy. Woke up at 6 am (to be tired by the end of the day), did anki and memorized a list of stuff I wanted to memorize (pharyngeal stuff, formulas, CNS derivates, etc), and watched some videos. Thank you! Took my test last month and 100% agree with your assessment. USMLE Step 1 is the first national board exam all United States medical students must take before graduating medical school. Also how many easy questions aka obvious answer choice were there, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. There were probably only 10-20 questions that weren't covered by UW and those were probably experimental anyway (or at least I hope they were lol), At least half the exam was at or below the difficulty level of the Free 120. Trust the process and go kill it! Sketchy pharm (preferably with the Pepper deck) is essential. But like, I think the fear of step 1 for IMGs is a big stigma and I hope this experience was in some way or form encouraging to someone who needs a little push and faith in themselves to do this. You won't regret it. Still, do every Sketchy vid and try your best to do the Pepper deck with it. Did Kaplan videos, B&B (1.5 months) and USMLE-Rx in my observership intermittently. You will also get that feeling too. Except for ~5 anatomy questions, those 2 covered everything anatomy and gave me enough of a knowledge base to make good educated guesses on those random ones... and I had a decent amount of anatomy, Make love to Pathoma chapters 1-3. Is that 100 concepts file the one from the Caribbean school professor? Ever since I was a child, things that would make me very nervous would result in me coughing my brains out (nervous cough) until I coughed so hard that I vomited. Biochem (metabolism) questions were related to the big ticket items: glycogen storage disorders, lysosomal storage disorders, oxidative phosphorylation, Nothing that couldn't be answered with FA and UW. Online last 6 weeks . Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Press J to jump to the feed. My name is Saad Javeed. Thanks again, best of luck to all, and questions welcomed! Burnout is real. I'm struggling in Neuro. any way you could share this? So much shit was straight from FA. I do not rea… Now don't get me wrong, I don't think I got a crazy high score. Very happy with my score. I had one very difficult block where I marked almost half and one easy block where I marked maybe 4. I woulda thought with really good NBME scores your first pass woulda been higher, I could be wrong though, maybe that's just how much harder Uworld is. Como manejabas los tiempos de descanso en tu dedicated? They had a lot of Step 1 material (mechanisms of drugs, having to choose the specific bug based off description such as I don't think I missed a single pharm question and I had a lot. Ended up scoring 6 points above my predicted. Lol, wish I thought of "my watch has ended" for the end of the write-up. Did you feel it was more like UWorld or NBME? Did you feel like, for most Qs, you felt like the questions gave you enough context clues to answer? I thought I was making stupid mistakes, marked easily 20 Qs per block at least. You sure did pump up my spirit! In fact, there are plenty of questions I had to guess on. All the high yield usual suspects showed up along with a handful (<12) of wtf/experimental questions. Exactly, UW qs give you more info, hence more clues to answer the question, while NBME are straight forward questions.