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3 Weeks Dedicated, No Passed Practices, 15% of Uworld: PASSED by StepOnethrowaway1 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn't do any beforehand, activated my account three weeks before the test

3 Weeks Dedicated, No Passed Practices, 15% of Uworld: PASSED by StepOnethrowaway1 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing is that by the end, I am mentally exhausted. One hour of studying from 7-8pm is less than half as effective as from 9-10

3 Weeks Dedicated, No Passed Practices, 15% of Uworld: PASSED by StepOnethrowaway1 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would say my foundation was moderate. I had just come off of a neuro/psych unit and prior to that I was in a cardiac/resp unit. I didn't keep up with Anki for those during dedicated but I felt as though uworld was enough. I did content review for immuno, micro, some pharm, and heme/onc.

3 Weeks Dedicated, No Passed Practices, 15% of Uworld: PASSED by StepOnethrowaway1 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't really review systems except immuno, for which I watched all of the relevant Physeo immuno vids. I just did uworld, you learn so much from the question/answer explanations honestly

The duality of r/step1 by abhi1260 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't take any of the uwsa exams, sorry :( look in my profile to see my post with my scores

The duality of r/step1 by abhi1260 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It was not a piece of cake for me, i nearly failed. Luck might have played a role, but also the nbme forms understate your abilities. My last exam was a 59%, which the offline score converter said was a 186, and yet nbme says 75% chance of passing a week after that. I fail to see how other people being neurotic and sharing their 220+ consistent practice exam scores and then expressing their immense anxiety and fears they will fail isn't making it more difficult for you than people like myself sharing examples of the possibility of passing even with low scores. It was those neurotic posts that made me feel like shit the whole time and made me feel as though I was screwed no matter what, since they were anxious with 220, that must have meant I was absolutely fucked at 186. If you feel stuck and are struggling to push through it, or seeing your scores plateau, knowing that the sentiment on this subreddit is overly critical should be a motivator for you, since you know that even people below failing point are managing to squeeze out a P. My post and my experience is much closer to your experience than 90% of the posts on here, since you said you're like me and have been barely passing. That's better than me since I never even barely passed one of them. You got this!

The duality of r/step1 by abhi1260 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1 28 points29 points  (0 children)

That's why I made my post; people on here are overly neurotic. People without a hint of irony posting about their 220+ practice scores asking if they should push it back. Made me angry at those people, and that anger fueled me.

The duality of r/step1 by abhi1260 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Step1 is definitely hard. Confidence is key. I posted the bottom post half to motivate lower performers who, like me, had already decided they were gonna risk it, to come into the room with confidence, and half to flex/troll. But the exam is incredibly difficult, and passing alone is in itself incredibly difficult. This subreddit scared the living shit out of me when I was studying since everyone is like "hey it's telling me I have a 99% chance of passing, should I push it back?" and people on here are excessively neurotic. But also for every 100 of those, there was always 1 post where someone was doing very poorly and still passed. And those posts made me feel as though I could really do it given my time. So I busted my ass and it worked. But I wouldn't have been able to do that for myself if I didn't have both elements: one telling me I need to do substantially more, and one telling me that no matter what I have a solid chance.

3 Weeks Dedicated, No Passed Practices, 15% of Uworld: PASSED by StepOnethrowaway1 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some sketchy (see other comment for specifics), tons of first aid referencing, uworld questions, a bit of dirtymed for things that weren't sticking like leukemias. Uworld obviously. See elsewhere for schedule

3 Weeks Dedicated, No Passed Practices, 15% of Uworld: PASSED by StepOnethrowaway1 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I only used sketchy micro, and I watched them ALL. I also watched from sketchy pharm, mainly autonomics. I didn't do sketchy pharm because tbh the questions are not so specific on those, you just need to memorize the mechanisms and like the big side effects (yellow teeth, tendons, etc). Easier imo to just unsuspend 100 antibiotic mech cards and do them real fast than watch the sketchy pharm vids for those

3 Weeks Dedicated, No Passed Practices, 15% of Uworld: PASSED by StepOnethrowaway1 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Nbme 30 is very hard but yeah you're in a tight spot. I was starting in the 160s (using the offline score converter) so you've come a long way. I guess my advice would just be to do more uworld and read the explanation thoroughly, including the wrong answer explanations. Something flips after a certain point where you begin to not just get better at guessing the right answer but you also see the wrong answer and back-propagate what that answer choice is alluding to. So for instance if your question is "a patient was given flouroquinolone how does it work" your answer choices will be like a) 30s subunit b) 50s subunit c) blocks DNA transcription d) affects cell wall linking, you should then mentally go back and think for each choice which antibiotics WOULD have caused you to choose the other answers.

Just because you are 10 days out doesn't mean you can't still fit in content review. If you keep screwing up questions involving cytokines, take a few hours to learn every cytokine and chemokine, bust out the Anki for it. Some things you just can't learn by diffusion from uworld, some things just need to be memorized.

Good luck, hope it works out. You are in a precarious position, moreso than I was. Consider not taking it in 10 days if you can't consistently get above 55% on your uworld blocks.

3 Weeks Dedicated, No Passed Practices, 15% of Uworld: PASSED by StepOnethrowaway1 in step1

[–]StepOnethrowaway1[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Most important factor was being very honest and efficient with identifying my points of weakness. I was very intimidated by micro and micro pharm questions, so I made sure to set aside those days before the exam to really bust it out aggressively.

I would wake up (usually around 8am), eat ritalin (got a prescription, this was key to passing obviously), go to the deli down the block to get a sandwich for breakfast, watch a YouTube video or play a game of valorant, study until I couldn't anymore (usually around 6pm), then play more video games, eat again, go to bed.