OME or any other resource I have not mentioned. Completely relaxed/cooked sth nice/did a lot of sports the day before. Then on the 4th and 3rd day before the exam I did the Ethics/Social stuff on amboss including the questions + watched all the DirtyMedicine videos on those topics as this was my weakest topic.įree 120 2 days before the exam. For the next 4-5 days I did UWorld as much as possible, being very restrictive with reviewing on the last 2-3 days (usually only my wrong ones and then another few) to get as much of UWorld done as possible. I just would not recommend doing them right before the exam as after doing those I tended to overthink questions even if they were easy. The only exception to Anki/UWorld: About 1.5 week out, I did first around 300 questions of only 4 and 5 hammer Amboss questions, which I can absolutely recommend if you are already on a really high UWorld percentage. Because I did well and I knew that I would not even finish all of UWorld, I decided against doing any NBMEs.
by putting them into Anki) then I would not recommend doing 2 passes.įelt like I was plateauing and did UWSA 1/2 back to back about 2.5 weeks out. If you are someone that has an effective way to retain wrong questions (eg. I only did a single pass through UWorld and only about 95% of questions. Started out at around 85%ish and had about an average of 92%ish on the last 800 questions right before Step. Worked well for me and saved me probably 1-2h of personal time/day. Initially I reviewed every single question but soon realized that that would take too long so started marking any questions I was not absolutely sure of (or I got wrong) and then only reviewing those. Personally, while I like doing questions, I absolutely hate reviewing so maybe that was also a factor why they it took longer. (free time afterwards) As with the Anki cards, be prepared that the Step 2 UWorld Blocks will take you significantly longer than their Step 1 counterparts (at least for me, especially at the beginning). Be prepared that the Step 2 cards are far less organized and will take you longer per card as there is often more information per cards vs the Step 1 cards! After an initial week, I reorganized my cards from the "Cheesy Dorian, Medical Ark etc." decks into subject-specific decks (IM, FM, Neuro, Gyn etc.), which I really liked (you can find all cards for a specific subject via the tags).Īfter completing the Anking decks at the beginning of February, I started doing UWorld blocks: After waking up, I did all my Anki-Reviews before breakfast, then had breakfast, then did 2 blocks, then a break, then another 2 blocks, then Lunch, then reviewing those 4 blocks with breaks in between and putting anything new in Anki, then those "Wrongs/Extras-Deck" then dinner. Personally, I felt like the cards were not as perfect as the Step 1 cards but still okay. (after deleting the !DELETE cards right away) With this method I only did around 5.5k of those Step 2 decks and suspended around 3k. In contrast to Step 1, at the beginning of the day, I went through all new cards of that day and suspended (and flagged) those that I knew were duplicates to the Step 1 deck or which I was very familiar with anyway. Then, I started doing the Step 2 decks in around December with about 100 new cards/day increasing this first to 150 new/day and then 200 new/day in January (while keeping up with all old cards). (took about 10 days but I think it was worth it) At the end of sorting through them, I think I had about 10k-ish suspended and 20k-ish still running. I did not (!) suspend all Step 1 cards that did not have a Step 2 tag (like recommended per Anking) but went through the cards myself and kept all cards active that had something clinical in them.
The mainstay of my studying for Step 1 had been the Anking deck and it worked out pretty well, so I decided to stay with this method. I basically only did the Anking Deck and UWorld with a bit of Amboss sprinkled on top. Test right at the beginning of March.ĭid really well on Step 1 (felt like this was crucial for Step 2), am a pretty good test-taker in general and especially really fast at reading/doing questions (which is even more important for Step 2 than Step 1) I took Step 1 at the end of last September, started some studying for Step 2 around mid of December (other projects parallel in December) and then really got into studying starting around mid of January.
Hi all, I got my score back this week and wanted to do a write up as similar write-ups/experiences have really helped me when deciding what to do/prepare for this exam.
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