Raw: 97
School Adjusted grade: 98%
Sources: Casefiles x1, Pretest x1, UW (all peds qs), CLIPP Cases (required by my school), Kaplan Step II Q Book peds qs
Highest score of the year for me! I'm really proud of this one and hope everyone else does well in peds also. I think all of the resources I listed are helpful in their own ways. CLIPP cases are time intensive but are good at the beginning of the rotation to get your feet wet with big concepts, and are of course required for some schools (mine included). By no means wait till the end or even the middle of your rotation to start, you should know most of the stuff covered by CLIPP by that time anyways. Pretest is actually great for Peds, one of the few shelfs I've found it helpful. UW and Kaplan qs are great as always.
I will say that I did things during this rotation that I don't normally do that I think gave me that extra little push that got me a good score on the shelf. I read all the way through UpToDate articles on highly tested concepts like Kawasaki's for example. I also had to give a couple of presentations so I made sure to do them on "high yield" topics for the shelf so that I was also sort of studying (my favorite was one on pediatric dermatology stuff with lots of pictures, doing it actually saved my bacon on a question on the shelf).
On a side note, here's my system that has evolved over the course of year for me for taking shelf exams. It's pretty resource intensive so you need to either a) be rich b)have rich parents or c) pool your resources with classmates. I used Case Files for every shelf. I try to get through at least 10 cases per week (more if I can) by reading during the week between rounds, cases, etc. 10 cases per week is very manageable and puts you on track to get through the book at least once before your shelf. On my days off or during anytime during weekdays when I'm sick of casefiles I read the hell out of big broad review books like Blueprints for OBGYN, NMS Cases and Kaplan for Surgery, First Aid for Psych, Step Up for IM, and so on. Pace yourself to get through a broad review book before your shelf. Questions are my bread and butter for taking shelfs so I go through every question resource I can beg, borrow, or steal. Do pretest if it is recommended for a particular shelf by others here on SDN forums. Otherwise don't. I find I burn through CaseFiles pretty quickly and take my time with broad review books and will mix in pretest whenever I can. I start UW qs (depending on the shelf) 2-3 weeks before the shelf. I will do 22-44 qs per night or more if I'm on call and nothing is going on. Obviously start sooner or do more qs for IM. I personally do untimed sections. I don't worry about pacing myself because I've never really struggled for time on any shelf and I also don't like to burn myself out on UW qs, I like to do them to learn and think about them and how to think through difficult questions (learning how to recognize "traps", common ways of asking about topics, etc). I review the answers and write down the key concept for every missed question and anything I learned (or that wasn't extremely common sense) and use this and any other notes for study the day before the shelf. We always have the day off before our shelf exams for study. I wake up that morning and do all of the Kaplan Step II CK qs for my given subject. I usually time these and do 100 qs in 2 hours. I do this to get my mind prepared for going a little quicker the next day, although it is no problem to get through 100 Kaplan qs in 2 hours (I'm not burning myself out). It's a good warm up--I don't learn much new, but I can see what topics I'm still not quite getting or which ones I 'm pretty solid on. I then spend the rest of the day reviewing notes or whatever I whatever I need to do. Come shelf exam time do what everyone else recommends--start at the end with the quick questions and then kill the rest of the test. You can do it, and you'll put the third year of med school behind you and never look back!
w00t! rocked it! 
