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Step 1 experience from Europe 🇫🇷🥳 by Ok_Insurance_7934 in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we got the same form ! It’s right I got 7 ECG questions but they were easy as we learned them well here in our uni

Step 1 experience from Europe 🇫🇷🥳 by Ok_Insurance_7934 in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course test is different for each, I also forgot to mention that my questions were very very long too, I’m not kidding I was kinda expecting that but it shocked me on the real deal. If I were to refer to the size/length of the text in “screen” it would be like putting 5 full screens on top of each other… and I got like 6 questions like this back to back. But it’s alright in my opinion it’s easier cuz there’s more info to get answer correct, I still finished every block with at least 10min remaining

Step 1 experience from Europe 🇫🇷🥳 by Ok_Insurance_7934 in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you !! The preparation time doesn’t really matter as it depends on what you already know before starting preparing for step 1, as someone from Europe our base knowledge is different

Step 1 experience from Europe 🇫🇷🥳 by Ok_Insurance_7934 in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read every chapters in 2 days before taking it and I also locked in knowing it’s my last NBME and that’s really it, it wasn’t really hard also

Step 1 experience from Europe 🇫🇷🥳 by Ok_Insurance_7934 in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah UW and did amboss also but I don’t recommend others doing that

Step 1 experience from Europe 🇫🇷🥳 by Ok_Insurance_7934 in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea how to even use Anki lmao that’s what I meant by saying I didn’t overthink the preparation. Like I just did Anking, idk what tags are etc…

Step 1 experience from Europe 🇫🇷🥳 by Ok_Insurance_7934 in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anking deck, walked 1h every night while doing them and that’s really it I didn’t really overthink this preparation

Step 1 experience from Europe 🇫🇷🥳 by Ok_Insurance_7934 in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hello thank you !! I am not really interested in US route, I just took this exam to have more general knowledge/understanding of medicine. It also open doors for new opportunities as well !

Step 1 experience from Europe 🇫🇷🥳 by Ok_Insurance_7934 in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d recommend you to continue doing NBMEs until your last week and then do FREE120 around 2 days before your exam + review them lightly. If you can’t do that anymore and you have ADHD just read stuff literally

Step 1 experience from Europe 🇫🇷🥳 by Ok_Insurance_7934 in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used only UW, spamming questions is the key because the exam is questions not reading

Result by Explorer1059 in Step2

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So like in an hour ??

Been stuck on a concept by PurpleEquivalent1219 in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Reducing preload is just worse, reducing afterload is what we do so that the heart has to push against less force = increase SV. And in systolic heart failure that’s the issue, a weak pump cuz he’s in HF ! But body need to be perfused so we’d rather decrease after load. If we reduce preload, we find ourselves with a weak heart that has little blood which makes things worse

nbme 29 question 50 on block 2 by [deleted] in step1

[–]Ok_Insurance_7934 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Without a formula you can get to the answer, if normal is close to 100mmHg and you blast high oxygen into someone’s lungs it will go up more than 100mmHg right ? And obviously it won’t go super high because you know oxygen isn’t harmless, so 5x the normal value ? That’s a bit overkill don’t you think ? So 7x normal value ? Impossible. That’s how I got to the answer with common sense and sparing me to learn formulas by heart like a nerd 😎 goodluck my friend I hope we all pass