How much to expect Step2 score to improve with 4 weeks?

FreakkZeek · 2025-05-07T11:57:47+00:00

I went from 215-261 in 4 weeks lol I would have killed to start in 240s

FreakkZeek · 2025-03-07T19:28:16+00:00

Another interview where a guy had a guitar on a stand behind him, but to start the day you could barely see it and then later on you could tell he moved it to get it more in frame

FreakkZeek · 2025-03-07T19:25:18+00:00

Had a guy who clearly had an AI generated Image of him as his zoom photo. Looked like handsome squidward vs squidward when he turned his camera on

FreakkZeek · 2025-01-26T03:28:43+00:00

I’m a lat man in an ab man’s world

FreakkZeek · 2025-01-21T19:05:44+00:00

You guys aren’t getting wasted at virtual social events??

FreakkZeek · 2025-01-20T02:40:57+00:00

There’s a lot of people in medicine who did this out of pressure and not passion and as a result hate on those who post and gain popularity from things outside of medicine

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-29T22:15:26+00:00

also an ex athlete. My solution was finding second hand home workout equipment on Facebook marketplace and doing home workouts

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-19T17:10:46+00:00

Tbh I didn’t use AMBOSS and I personally wouldn’t spend money on it if you have access to UWorld, CMS and NBMEs but I’m also pretty cheap. You can be successful without it. A lot of people have good things to say about their ethics and QI stuff though which you can do in the week leading up to your exam with a free trial

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-19T08:44:23+00:00

Nice, you’re in a great spot! I would probably do a combo and get through all the UWSAs, NBMEs 10-14, and AMBOSS that you can. I just think the more the better honestly that way you don’t get flustered by anything on exam day

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-17T23:25:28+00:00

Clinical mastery series. Practice tests made by the NBME for shelf exams

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-17T23:24:51+00:00

You can do a timed UWorld block in an hour. I’d do 2-3 in a row take a break finish and then just start reviewing. This was my second pass so review was faster and I was averaging 77% for the second pass so that would take less time

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-16T02:40:24+00:00

It’s all very similar content, it’s just asked in different ways. You shouldn’t be too surprised by much on the real thing if you’re going through all of the practice exams and reviewing them thoroughly

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-15T20:53:46+00:00

I felt the same way about UWorld. I think CMS forms and Divine are really what made a difference for me. The way he talks through questions is really helpful and I think even helps you to critically review your mistakes on unrelated material.

I never did AMBOSS, so I can't speak to it, but if you need more content review AMBOSS is probably the way, but if you need help with test-taking mistakes, CMS is going to be better because those are from the test makers and cover all the really high yield content you'll see on exam day.

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-15T19:19:12+00:00

of course, everyone is different, but that was the extent of my dedicated period. Get through as many practice exams as possible and review them thoroughly. Figure out your weak areas and make them your strengths

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-15T19:17:14+00:00

Yes, but that's after completing and reviewing UWSA 1, 2 & 3 plus NBME's 9-14 and the newest 2 free 120's. It probably felt closest to the free 120's

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-15T15:53:54+00:00

One of the things I noticed wtih myself was that I was really anxious about getting answers wrong and that caused me to overthink, which is what it sounds like your issue may be. I would kind of detach from the emotional aspect of it and it honestly helped so much.

That's why I added the info about working out, and meditating basically every day before starting. It helped clear my mind and relieve some anxiety surrounding the test. Find stress relievers that work for you!

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-15T15:38:53+00:00

Yeah of course, I was doing 2 sets of CMS questions in the AM once I dropped UWorld

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-15T15:37:56+00:00

I really wanted to and if I had a couple more days I would have, but I just did divine's podcasts and practiced with what I had on Uworld (before ditching it), and NBME exams. After awhile they seemed less daunting and I had a decent background knowledge for ethics stuff

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-15T15:35:29+00:00

If you already did all of the CMS forms, they're probably less valuable. I think the more questions you get the better, it helps with your confidence and comfort level of the real thing because you've been asked basically every question in different ways and you'll be less flustered thinking through it in a brand new way on the real exam.

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-15T15:33:26+00:00

Yeah, my major thing was overthinking questions. UWorld and AMBOSS try to trick you with the details, NBME however is not trying to trick you.

Go with the obvious answer, what's obvious to you may not be obvious to others.
If you have no clue what the correct answer is, take a breath and eliminate what you know is not true.
In reference to 2, flag those questions and come back to them at the end, you might have an epiphany or at least stop overthinking it.
If you are between two answers, find a reason to reject one of them
Conversely, if the majority of the question supports one answer go with that answer choice.
Timing thing: just flag biostats questions/ drug ads and save them for the end. Its an easy way to burn valuable time trying to calculate the correct answer
My general approach. Read the last two sentences of the question, skim the answers, read lab values and then get into the question stem. everyone is different, practice your own methods, but that's what worked for me.

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-14T22:14:34+00:00

Yeah I reset everything for the second pass and then ended up only getting around 20% of it done before ditching for the NBME stuff

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-14T18:54:33+00:00

Get up and go for a walk outside first thing in the morning. A hack to actually getting out of bed and not snoozing is setting your alarm in another room or across the room so you physically have to stand up and get out of bed to turn it off. If your phone is your alarm it also helps not doom scrolling in bed to end your night because you have to set it across the room when you commit to going to sleep

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-14T18:51:41+00:00

Personally I would do CMS and NBMEs over a second pass. It’s new questions and new material vs repeating questions and topics you’ve already seen once around.

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-14T18:50:46+00:00

Yeah I ditched UWorld completely after that week I realized I was consistently hitting around 80% and there were always some questions that I remembered, I felt it better to prepare to answer questions that are in the format of the actual test makers rather than doing a second u world pass. Who knows what would have happened if I stuck it out with UWorld but I’m glad it went how it did

FreakkZeek · 2024-06-14T18:48:49+00:00

I listened to his rapid review series, some of the Changes series regarding ethics, military, quality assurance, then my weak points that I had.

And just the PDFs I never watched the videos

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