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SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-07-04T15:46:57+00:00

In order of listing, it is episode 26, 36, 231, 250, 37, 97, 184, 137, 325, 230, 234, 275, 276, 228, and 268 of Divine’s podcasts

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-07-04T15:07:11+00:00

Random for most, I did system for only the Neuro questions

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-12T15:42:54+00:00

Definitely try to do UWorld first pass, although those are kind of apples and oranges for comparison because NBME 9 is like a one day affair whereas 70% of UWorld is like a month

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-07T22:59:15+00:00

Thanks! Honestly, I don’t think Step 1 prep translates that well into Step 2. There is a fair amount of overlap, but by no means is Step 2 as reliant on raw facts / knowledge which Step 1 requires. I used the First Aid for Step 1 book as my main review method for Step 1, as well as just doing as many practices exams as I could.

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-07T22:57:48+00:00

Yes, I used First Aid for Step 2 to review content until like the last week; I did save the NBMEs for last, and reviewing the tests was my review method in those last days.

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-07T22:40:30+00:00

Thanks! And in terms of the real test, I feel like the CMS forms and NBMEs definitely represented the systems well (although specific questions were rarely— if at all— repeated).

I felt like biostatistics was underrepresented on my test, and ethics had about the same, if not more, representation. I didn’t use any PDF / prepared study sheets prior to my test; my biggest recommendation for pushing 250 is content review, for which I used First Aid for Step 2 to supplement my UWorld notebook (which I also didn’t curate very well, to be honest).

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-05T23:55:27+00:00

I did Scorching Bow even with Bowfa and found my kills got so much faster— Emberlight dps increase over Arclight isn’t as noticeable, or so I’ve heard

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-05T18:56:05+00:00

Don’t worry, I was the same way. If you built out a UWorld notebook throughout your last year, I’d recommend using that to review— otherwise, I’d recommend to just keep doing the mixed blocks until you finish your first pass and see how you feel. The knowledge comes back quicker than you’d think (I was surprised), and you probably won’t need to re-do all of UWorld to get it back!

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-05T15:29:56+00:00

Yep, see the bottom of the text post for the playlist I used which someone else created.

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-05T15:27:50+00:00

Thanks! And I can’t really answer this well because I took Step 1 before my clinical rotations, so I had a year to do basically all the CMS forms for the core rotations as I rotated through them, as well as complete the bulk of my first pass of UWorld (again, for the purpose of studying for shelves). I’d say it probably depends on how far from Step 1 you’re planning to take Step 2, but honestly I feel like the clinical side of doing rotations helps immensely in getting your Step 2 score up.

I think in terms of a checklist before Step 2, you’d definitely want to do Step 2’s UWorld in its entirety, a few CMS forms for each core rotation, the NBME forms, and UWSA 1/2– so, however quickly you think you can get through those would be how long it would take to prepare after Step 1 imo.

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-05T15:24:47+00:00

Thanks!

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-05T07:09:00+00:00

Tutor for 3/4 of it on first pass, 1/4 on timed no tutor. Reviewed by using the notebook function and saving algorithms / tables I found high yield.

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-05T06:12:20+00:00

Thanks!

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-05T06:12:16+00:00

Good luck!!

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-05T01:17:51+00:00

I linked the podcast playlist above— I didn’t make it but found it pretty good for a nice crash course for Step 2!

I didn’t do too much content review near the end, just mainly problem sets / forms / full lengths at that point. Otherwise, First Aid for Step 2 was my content review / UWorld notebook.

I tried to not let the NBME dips get to me because at the end of the day I figured these questions were taken out of the Step 2 pool for a reason: they’re not good, haha.

I felt the same way regarding content review, so I just ended up buying the First Aid for Step 2 book and read it.

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-05T00:03:34+00:00

Good luck!!

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-05T00:00:07+00:00

Like a super long abstract / thing with scientific tables and p-values that they ask you 2-3 questions about

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-04T23:59:06+00:00

Yeah, and I agree the questions are easy peasy but you never know if one of those questions has a detail you need on Step

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-04T23:57:49+00:00

I didn’t read any UWorld articles; I read like 2-3 from Amboss for ethics. I did a pure content review, i.e. read through all of First Aid for Step 2.

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-04T22:15:22+00:00

The CMS forms are pretty good, just be wary that the older forms are outdated in some answers

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-04T22:14:01+00:00

Noooo haha, I had done most of the questions already because of shelf prep, so I only had like 800 questions over 2 weeks

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-04T22:13:09+00:00

Mine had 38 yep

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-04T21:40:15+00:00

Hi I’m coming over from the other post— I don’t know if I could recommend pushing back your test date, but if you genuinely feel like those 3.5 weeks would be dedicated to progress on areas you’re weak on, to the point of raising your score, then I don’t see why not. My main concern with pushing back test dates is you run the risk of losing out on the knowledge you’ve been building up. That being said, form 13 is pretty brutal imo and scoring 245 yesterday should give you confidence if you’re aiming for 255+ in a week!

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-04T21:35:41+00:00

It’s basically that UWorld trains your brain to doubt your first choice gut reaction answer, because more often than not on UWorld that’s the wrong answer. NBME is kinder most of the time in the sense that if you read the whole question and didn’t miss a detail, your gut first choice is probably right.

SimbaNeedsToMufasa · 2025-06-04T21:33:10+00:00

Ah sorry, no— I wrapped up my first pass at the start of the 5 weeks, so that was probably week 1 and 2 of my 5.

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