What qbank? I find this is highly dependent on my state of mind while doing the questions (ie, how tired I am), so I've been trying to do questions in the middle of my study day instead of saving them for the end. I miss some really stupid stuff sometimes, stuff that I know I know, but I'm not too concerned because I feel like filling in those gaps is more about perfecting my test taking habits than anything else. I've heard not to put too much stock into % correct on qbanks other than UWorld, and just focus on learning from them.
Starting their biochem questions today, I'll let you know what I think. I haven't done any UWorld yet though, saving that for March onward.
Bro that is funny you are mentioning this rn. Me and my boy are getting wreckkkkkedd by Rx biochem holy **** they are hard. IMO the hard ones are harder than UW but about same as UW in difficulty. We’ll get better and better with more questions keep your head up you arent alone. Literally was just laughin about this today how hard they are
Rx questions are submitted by students and I am totally convinced they’re all gunners trying to prove how smart they are by making the questions SUPER obscure and low yield. The whole notion that doing Rx is just ways to get asked about FA is bull. I saw tons of questions that were absolutely not in FA and completely worthless for the real exam.
Agree 100%. There are a lot of Rx questions that are not in first aid
Starting UW in mid march as well. Game day June 15th. Are you taking yours in June?
June 12th for me. COMLEX on the 15th.
Getting through lolnotacop and a pharm deck alone should help you a lot. Those decks are gold, I almost never miss micro or pharm questions.
Same. I did a set of pure micro questions in RX and got 90%+ all thanks to lolnotacop and sketchy.
Agree. pepper decks also great. But to reiterate what you are saying i almost never miss any pharm or micro questions solely because of these decks/sketchy
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I've just about finished biochem minus genetics, and it is quite brutal. However, the only reason I decided to power through it was cuz one of my friends at another school said it really helped him. He got a 250 on a CBSE back in early december, and he still has another month before he sits for step...
Were you on tutor mode as you were going through untimed? or timed no tutor. 68% is pretty good especially if your test isnt for a few months. I ended up around a 72% but i was untimed and on tutor mode so everytime i chose an answer i was studying the explanation as in i was learning more info as I was going through so my percentage is meaningless
Just do BnB for everything. Dr Ryan is more than thorough almost too thorough he covers stuff for boards “and beyond” so
I am doing easy medium and hard just so I see everything but if you want to get to UW quicker then just do the medium and hard ones. Thing with Rx is the easy ones are insanely easy and the hard ones are crazy hard (harder than UW in my opinion just because some of them are poorly written by students and sometimes test your knowledge on tiny minutiae that sometimes aren't even in FA BnB or Pathoma). Overall I think Rx is amazing for helping you get through first aid and applying the knowledge that is in there to make you apply it. Id say either way youre fine but would say if you can get through the medium and hard ones and start UW sooner I would do that IMO
Don't worry about those lol they are just used to help you go over his main points. Just try and learn from them yeah some of them are really hard ut don't bug out about getting them right or wrong they aren't meant to be Qbank questions
The more questions the better, so if you can do all of Rx in addition to Uworld, you should. Some of my Uworld mistakes have been easy questions, and even well-prepared students get easy questions wrong on Step 1. If you don't have time to do all of them, then focusing on the medium/hard questions makes sense.
I think that I will continue with the medium/hard ones for now just to ensure that I see all of those no matter what. Then, once I'm finished, I can go through the easy ones fairly quickly.
I am planning on starting with 20 as a baseline, probably this weekend. Want to get 20-25% of UWorld done first. It's supposed to be hard, so may give me the impetus to study hard if it goes poorly. Good for momentum too to do the low-scoring one first, since nothing's worse for momentum than declining scores.
You can get BnB for 9 months by getting the AMA 4-year membership for $68. You just have to say you're an OMS-1 when you joining otherwise you get the 3-year membership without the option of getting BnB.
How long did your school give you for dedicated?
Yeah, the latest data on reddit confirms them to be the most accurate. Anecdotally, UWSA2 tends to overpredict a bit, while NBME underpredicts a bit.
Will these still be accurate with changes coming to the USMLE step 1 in May?
They'll still be the best we've got. Those changes will probably only affect a small percentage of questions anyway.
