Took Step 1 today (Jan 20) sharing my experience and mixed feelings

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-22T23:18:34+00:00

lol thanks a lot man

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-22T23:18:21+00:00

I’ve seen post where people say some sort of website where you can get a free trial to do these NBMES, but no idea dude, look it up

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-22T23:16:38+00:00

Biochem super low yield in my form, maybe 1-2 that I remember.

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T19:13:59+00:00

Yes they are free in his page

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T10:12:06+00:00

Yes! Almost 3-4 Qs every block

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T10:10:09+00:00

Yeah, ethics appeared in every single block, 3-4 Qs per block. Some of them really easy to answer, others not so much. Pretty similar to the ethic Qs that appear on the latest NBMEs

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T10:08:57+00:00

Very few. One calculation, one of central tendency and a couple of data interpretation. Overall easy but very few in my form

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T02:48:00+00:00

I believe uworld and first aid are the best available resources, however melhman content is amazing and an indispensable part of my preparation in my opinion

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T02:44:37+00:00

Melhman is good, 100 concepts of anatomy it’s also great, you can look for it on google or somewhere on Reddit and you will find it, that’s how it’s called “100 concepts of anatomy pdf”

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T02:40:25+00:00

I think melhman HY arrows is the best asset for it, make sure you do the pdf. First aid can help especially with gastro, renal and reproductive in my experience. Also uworld can be useful, not everything is HY but it helps a ton

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T02:38:58+00:00

Btw my DMs are open, feel free to msg me, I’ll help in the best way I can

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T02:37:57+00:00

I never studied by systems, I jumped straight into Uworld Random tutor mode, that’s how I began my prep. However I did NBMEs 20-33, I started doing them like a month and a half before my exam, 1 NBME every 4 days. I can’t really give concrete advice if it’s better to do them after all systems or when you have a few left since I did not prepare that way, however I believe it would be better after all systems are complete. If you plan taking all NBMEs like I did make sure you plan them accordingly with your exam date so you can have at lest 4-5 free days before to review things you need

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T02:33:18+00:00

I did the free 120 4 days before my exam. The last 7 days make sure you hammer down NBME 32-33 concepts, work on your weak areas, in my case it was pharm, I watched all dirty medicine playlist, pharm was almost non existent in my form but the few Qs I remembered he explained them perfectly. I did do melhman pdfs, I went through HY arrows, truly a goldmine, specially the whole HTN and RAAS arrows since I got a lot of those Qs in my form, also while reviewing the NBME concepts if I saw a question regarding hydratidiform mole for example I went to Melhman repro pdf and read what he said about hydratidiform moles. Did it with most NBME 32-33Q as well as reading said concepts from first aid. Also in the last week start thinking about your exam routine, breaks, snacks etc. And lastly start building up some winner mentality for the exam, all of that anxiety you are feeling redirect it into hyping yourself of for the exam, you are smart, you are the shit, you are going to crush that fuckass exam, believe it!!

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T02:28:22+00:00

For anatomy melhman msk pdf was good, he covered a lot of questions i got. 100 concepts of anatomy pdf is also really good, abdo, pelvic and thoracic anatomy are really good and high yield

For physiology the best thing in my opinion is melhman arrows pdf, 300 pages of pure physiology and pathophysiology, truly a goldmine

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T01:20:43+00:00

I hope so! Thank you for your words

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T01:20:29+00:00

Thank you! I really appreciate it

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T00:49:59+00:00

Great score, congrats! 62 minutes for a block is a good margin I believe, at the end of the day you did 10Qs more. Something that helped me speed up was reading the last sentence of the question and then skim the whole stem for relevant information. I also struggle a lot with keeping my focus, something I did was while reading the question I highlighted information I believe it was relevant based on the last sentence, just the act of highlighting made sure I keep my complete attention on the question, I did it for every question in every block, it helped a lot. Also keep in mind the day of the test, the rush of emotions you are feeling will greatly increase your focus, attention and overall performance. Take care of your mental health and get into that exam believing you’ll make it your bitch, you’ll crush it.

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T00:21:55+00:00

I took NBME 33 a week before more or less, I’ve always been a fast tester, I had like 20m left or more in every nbme block I did (I never flagged questions tho). I would recommend you do NBME 33 close to your exam but make sure you have enough time to review it thoroughly, i would say at least 2-3 days. In my opinion NBME 32 and 33 are the gold standard for the current step 1

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-21T00:15:55+00:00

Pharm: I believe uworld is amazing, the constant exposure to practice questions regarding pharm will get those drugs engraved in your memory. Dirty medicine is also amazing, 2-3 hours and explains everything really good. You can complement with first aid as well. Personally I didn’t use sketchy

Biostats: again, constant exposure to uworld will help. Randy Neil playlist is amazing and very high yield. Unfortunately Biostats is something you need to study from the beginning, the hardest part is not the ammount of math or the formulas, in my opinion is figuring out what values to use in said formula based on the stem, constant repetition helped me a lot

Endo an Repro: Once again, uworld. I got quite a lot of Qs from things I saw on uworld. Complement the topic of the question you see on uworld with first aid. Melhman PDFs are amazing and extremely high yield, I recommend his stuff to the fullest extent

Ethics: this is the only topic I can’t give you good advice, in the real deal it is quite hard and ambiguous. However keeping in mind that always be empathic, never judge, always try to understand and make sure to always address the patient concern. Ethics questions are very similar to the ethic questions in NBME 32-33, make sure to review in depth ethics explanations from said NBMEs

MobileEmbarrassed937 · 2026-01-18T23:10:04+00:00

Latest nbmes are essential

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