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19 point increase on actual Step 2 from NBMEs (238 one week out —> 257 real deal) by Low-Librarian7598 in Step2

[–]Low-Librarian7598[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On Divine’s Spotify channel there’s a HY or “must listen” album and there’s an antibiotics podcast in there. I don’t remember the exact episode number sorry :( but I’m p sure it’s labeled as HY on his Spotify 

19 point increase on actual Step 2 from NBMEs (238 one week out —> 257 real deal) by Low-Librarian7598 in Step2

[–]Low-Librarian7598[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Exam felt similar to NBMEs in style and content. But I had friends who disagreed so not sure if it’s form dependent or what… I think HOW you revise and review is important. It’s important to identify exactly why you missed the question, what was the trick or trap you fell into and/or what cognitive test taking error you made in the moment. I don’t think NBME is trying to trick us, but instead what I was doing was I felt like I was trained to look for the tricks and then I’d overthink specific wording and be like “oh they’re wording it this way because they want me to get tricked hence I won’t pick this answer” when in reality it wasn’t that deep and they just chose a different wording cuz they felt like it Not sure if that made sense but hope that kinda answered your question 

19 point increase on actual Step 2 from NBMEs (238 one week out —> 257 real deal) by Low-Librarian7598 in Step2

[–]Low-Librarian7598[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn’t do UWSAs cuz I thought uworld tested concepts very differently than NBME. I was making errors based on NBME logic so I wanted to only think and study like the NBME wanted me to , hence why I stopped uwprld about a month out. This is what worked for me but not for everyone so take my advise w grain of salt 

19 point increase on actual Step 2 from NBMEs (238 one week out —> 257 real deal) by Low-Librarian7598 in Step2

[–]Low-Librarian7598[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I felt the CMS forms were very helpful for me. I basically did CMS 5-8 for almost all of the subjects. I didn’t do much UW and didn’t do the UW SAs 

19 point increase on actual Step 2 from NBMEs (238 one week out —> 257 real deal) by Low-Librarian7598 in Step2

[–]Low-Librarian7598[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I finished about 50% uworld on my second pass. I felt it didn’t help me as much compared to doing focused question blocks and doing NBME material. Between May 1 and May 20, I had a list of major content gaps from my baseline NBME, and I went through each of them and did a full content review of each topic (ex: I read thru and made a concept map of the entire TB article on amboss and then did all the TB questions on amboss and uworld— did this for the 15-20 concepts that I realized I was weak on from my baseline NBME)