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Later scores were NBME16 with 244 two weeks out and then UWSA2 with 264 a couple of days before step 1 so it’s a bit hard to say how much exactly I kept improving in the latter half of the period. I had not taken a test earlier but judging by my earliest UWorld scores I would have scored much lower before I started, probably in the fail range. I should add here that right after going over B&B I scored 258 on UWSA1. I also decided that this would reflect the importance of each subject matter what appears in both UWorld and B&B is likely to be higher yield and is more important to spend time on reinforcing – the stuff that only appears in one and not the other is more likely to be on the verge. This counts to me as repetition of the material. I later (after watching Pathoma too) finished most of the rest of UWorld in random timed tutor mode (actually I only finished 85% which annoyed me a bit but it doesn’t seem to have harmed my score too bad). After each section of B&B I went over a block or half of questions in that category for a little reinforcement of concepts. Secondly, all the comprehensive materials for step 1 basically cover the same stuff, including FA, B&B and UWorld.
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It also made sense to me that you should cover everything at least once if at all possible (what you don’t know of core materials is the highest yield). I have always been a fan of gaining understanding of the material I'm studying and the B&B lectures are much more conductive to that strategy than FA. Using just FA, retention is almost impossible without a lot of effort and auxiliary techniques like Anki. Watching the lectures is waaay different from reading First Aid, which I did try for a bit before going into dedicated. If I needed repetition, I repeated it by replaying instead of the much more time-consuming and frankly dreadful method of taking written notes (yeah, I really hate taking notes). Ryan said at least in the moment I was watching it, replaying as often as I needed. To begin, I made sure I heard and understood everything Dr. Writing stuff down on paper won’t magically write into your brain. (Unfortunately, many lecturers in med school make truly useless lecture notes – not the case with the major materials for Step 1). lecture notes, FA), I can look it up there if I need it, hopefully in a better format than whatever I can come up with and by using Ctrl-F if the author isn’t opposed to technology and progress. If it’s already written down somewhere (i.e. Well, first of all I obviously didn't retain everything, nor will you.Īnki is great for some facts but frankly I’ve come to detest mindless note taking. I realize my plan is a bit unusual by most standards so I'm reluctant to recommend doing it just like I did but it did work for me and so I'm putting it out there.
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I also downloaded all the PDF lecture notes which aren't in great format but was helpful for recall later in the period. TBH I did benefit significantly from that but I don't regret that I didn't do more Anki. I did not use Anki either except towards the end of my dedicated for a few isolated groups of diseases (glycogen storage diseases, commonly tested biochemistry-related diseases). I did not take any notes to speak of, although I did copy the B&B ID flowcharts and a couple of similar things on paper to commit to memory, which worked well. I also took a couple of days to sample how much I could watch in a day and made a realistic plan of how long it would take me to watch all the videos and kept track of how far along I was. However, I'd say my average productivity was better - easier to maintain - when watching videos than when reading or doing Uworld quizzes. I'm not the world's most productive person to be honest often that meant 5 hours of productiveness/video watching in an "8 hour" day. I kept track of my productive hours during each day and ended up taking about an hour per hour of video. I watched every single video except for biostats (my strongest subject), mostly on 1.5-1.7x speed but I ended up rewinding every now and then. I had a dedicated period of about 10 weeks and all in all spent 4 weeks on B&B in the first half of dedicated. I used Boards and Beyond almost entirely instead of FA. Grade-wise I've generally been an average student in my class until Step 1. I'm a European IMG and I had a 10 week dedicated period.