honest review of kaplan qbank usmle step 1

Pathology= Pathoma(audio ONLY)+goljan (book and audio) *I still remember 1-2 questions on the test day which I could solve easily because I remember Dr.

*can only say, that this guy is all father of medicine, he was the one I owe my first 3 years of medicine to, a walking legend on earth which teach up to an unbelievable high-yet simple to understand level. *watched him during the first years of my med school not in the 4th year # This is only the summary of all summaries that exist, if you do not TRULY understand and can manipulate the material behind those words…then yes you can get 220, even 230, but not above it for sure. # What you need to understand, that EVERY single word in this book is testable, even if a number is written near a DNA picture, this has a chance to be in your exam If a specific subject is not written, it means I only encountered it at First aid / the Q banks and didn’t have a specific tool to study it It was a lifesaver, as it enabled me to review in 4 days ALL of my WEAK spots, again and again, and again because what you know…you know, it doesn’t matter if you grind it, for step 1 you need to work efficiently, not with brute force. Instead, I used ANKI flashcards, and from every resource which I didn’t know the idea/ concept I made a card, and then before the test, I had about 4000 cards which I repeated. I tried never to read the same resource twice if I don’t have to. I am not a great believer in hard-working, but in smart working. I gave step 1 half of the summer between my 3rd and 4th year, the entirety of my fourth year (skipping all the lectures that I could and the labs which I could) and the entire summer of the fourth year.Īt my dedicated time (2.5 months in the summer) I studied 8-12 hours a day(sometimes more when needed), with 1-2 days off/week 1.2 How to Take the Most of the Sources I did step 1 during my 4th year of med school and started using the American material at the first year already, though I ONLY STARTED PREPARING PROPERLY FOR STEP 1 AT THE BEGINNING OF MY FOURTH YEAR. I started writing about this thinking that I will just jot down some points and notions here and there, and suddenly I found myself writing about a big part of my life. I wrote this with a lot of haste, so please feel free to ask questions, and if you see that I didn’t make myself clear enough, I will re-write some parts.

Please feel free to jump and take whatever you want from this small guide for step 1. I will elaborate as much as I can because when I prepared for step 1, I always found that people wrote in very short their experience, and I couldn’t really understand what the thing that really gave them their score was.

a proposition for an algorithm for step 1.

notions/ how to ace to exam (from my point of view).

1.5 NBMEs and how to use them + Uworld assessment tools

Honest review of kaplan qbank usmle step 1