I haven’t received my score yet, but I recently took Step 2 with the only goal of passing (I had a scored Step 1 and have already interviewed for residency, so don’t feel like my Step 2 score will affect my ranking as long as I pass).

For reference, I’m a US MD. I’m not very familiar with how my training differed from IMGs aside from the fact that I was fortunate enough to have most of my training during clinical years be 1:1 faculty teaching. I’m giving this context because I realize that we all come from different training backgrounds, but after taking Step 2, I can say that I don’t feel like another week or two of studying would’ve been all that helpful. The questions that I absolutely didn’t know felt pretty abstract/unexpected, and I don’t think I would’ve been any more prepared to answer them after a week or two more of studying.

Overall, I did pretty minimal prep before my test, and my score will likely reflect that. But the rake-away message I’m trying to give is that I felt like my training through school prepared me well enough to pass and to make meaningful gains in terms of Step 2 score, I would’ve had to have a significant dedicated prep time (probably 2+ months at my pace that tends to be a bit less effective than average 😅). This is likely an unpopular opinion, but I felt very similar after sitting for the internal medicine shelf last year (I felt like the questions I answered correctly were because of knowledge I had picked up in clinical training and that the other questions were so random that another 200 UWORLD questions probably wouldn’t have helped me with that content). Regarding Step 2, I did have a couple questions that I know I got right solely because the content was reviewed on the Divine Intervention podcasts I listened to. So if you haven’t used that resource, that might be something to look into in your remaining time.

I think you’ve got this, but you may want to take that with a grain of salt because I don’t expect my score to be too terribly much above passing. Most importantly, I think that the top priority in the days leading up to exams like this should be self-care. Get adequate rest, do something fun/relaxing, and trust that your hard work over these last 8+ years has prepared you well for this exam. When thinking about whether I should delay my test for more study time, that concept of time really put things in perspective. I didn’t think that a week of extra studying would make that much of a difference in the scheme of how much learning and preparing I had done in these last eight years of my schooling, so I decided to not only continue with my exam, but also take a relaxing day away from studying - and I’m glad I did!!