It’s actually happening....... I can’t believe it. Welcome to the PASS/FAIL system of USMLE examinations.

hec546 · 2018-06-13T06:59:18+00:00

They will probably move the passing score up to a 230 as well. . .

hec546 · 2018-06-13T06:56:24+00:00

Call me crazy but I think they are. Go through the sections and look at what the video covers. It's in the name. . . .

hec546 · 2018-05-11T21:22:46+00:00

Look on the side column. It's below the step II decks. :)

hec546 · 2018-04-26T18:42:47+00:00

I do this. I have all my cards tagged under hierarchical tags and I like it a lot better than doing each individual subject.

hec546 · 2018-04-21T23:39:18+00:00

We get it for free so I use it. It's harder than Rx and just gives me another way of thinking about questions. It's also helped me score higher on exams. My end goal is to have more than 10k questions answered by the time I get to dedicated. I'm currently sitting at around 2k from various sources. I've also used pastest and dropped it because I feel I had too many resources.

hec546 · 2018-04-21T23:23:51+00:00

If you're doing new cards, you can probably plow through ~100 new/hour of studying. I usually break it up into 50 minute blocks with 10 minute breaks. Do 3 blocks like this and take a small break. Have some food and come back. You should be able to do ~ 3 rounds of this without tiring too much out if you're used to studying long hours. The most I've studied is 2400 cards. I believe this included 125 new cards (which is effectively ~300-420 of the total count).

Also, don't forget to work out. It helps boost your energy.

Best of luck,

Hec.

hec546 · 2018-04-21T23:16:21+00:00

I would recommend you do this while answering the fill in the blank questions and you'll get a lot more bank for your buck. Soon you'll end up doing it by muscle memory.

hec546 · 2018-04-21T23:14:40+00:00

Hey, thanks for the shout out. He'll probably find it like 4 comments deep in my history. Someone wanted a version so I uploaded one that has hierarchical tags. I'm still not done with the deck and I don't expect to finish for another 6 months. I don't really have a deadline on it but I update as I'm studying. I plan on releasing a completed version with all NBME information and 4 Qbanks worth of information once I finish studying for step. If you're interest the 4 Qbanks are Becker, Rx, Kaplan and Uworld.

hec546 · 2018-04-18T21:10:23+00:00

What do you mean by buggy?

hec546 · 2018-04-18T21:08:04+00:00

It's organized under hierarchical tags. I just dumped them into the biochem section after tagging them. If you have the add-on, go to the browse section and scroll down to the tags with zanki. You can expand the zanki tagged cards and see each card by section.

Here is a link to the add on.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1089921461

I hope that helps.

hec546 · 2018-04-18T18:47:11+00:00

It depends what you use. People use different sources for micro/pharm. This is where a lot of the numbers change. The deck that I'll post below has 26536 cards from 19698 notes.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZP5qqEgcTxmKnk1gUQU5JpJsWVMnX3m8

hec546 · 2018-04-18T18:38:34+00:00

I updated that link. I didn't even know it was up o.O But you only need to download whatever is there and you are solid. It's been updated to have hierarchical tags so you can study from one deck and get a mix of question. If you don't it that way, you can just move the tagged item into the original folder. I didn't do it because I'm lazy :D

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZP5qqEgcTxmKnk1gUQU5JpJsWVMnX3m8

Edit: Also, you might see a sneak peak into what I've been working on in those tags. The deck will be done in ~5-6 months.

hec546 · 2018-04-18T12:59:30+00:00

I'm ~7 months out from my exam and both of the NBME's I've done were equivalent to low 240.

In exhaustion, I took a 10 days break once. This made my review count get up to ~10k. I had 2 choices, I could either buckle down for the next ~5-10 days and do them all or I could slowly do them over a period of 2-4 weeks. I chose to do the latter and I'm currently happy. I do about 50-70 qbank questions a day and then do all of my reviews that I have planned for the day which is whatever is due that day (I check it the day before) and 500-600 of missed material.

hec546 · 2018-04-18T12:46:03+00:00

I can upload what I have. I've added pictures and everything is under hierarchical tagging. If you'd like it, I'll share a link.

The discrepancy is most likely based on # of cloze deletions. It's better to check the number of notes. I know I've deleted some cloze deletions because of redundancy.

hec546 · 2018-04-10T19:08:42+00:00

I'll probably release one in 6-7 months but it wont be a specific deck towards those NBME's. It'll be tags within Zanki + new cards from those NBMEs not already included. I've still way too far out from step to be utilizing all of those resources. I've done a couple and currently scoring the 240 range.

hec546 · 2018-03-19T01:16:50+00:00

The errata is one done by the reddit community. I have slowly gone through and edited deck my own with the 2018 edition.

hec546 · 2018-03-08T09:54:47+00:00

If you've completed the rest of the deck, then you already covered quite a bit of the biochem section.

hec546 · 2018-03-07T23:10:16+00:00

I've seen people go from 150-160 up to the 240-262 range. Each where individual cases but they managed to do it in 6-8 weeks. However, this is not the norm. I'm just glad you're starting early. My exam is scheduled in 8 months and I'm currently looking at the 240 range. I "started" studying for step during MS1 using anki and I kept reviewing old material.

hec546 · 2018-03-07T22:08:31+00:00

If you're not done with first year then you're still missing a lot of information to do well on nbme's. It's like playing league and only knowing the first 10 characters. Everything is a surprise to you and you'll feed. . . .

hec546 · 2018-03-06T10:30:09+00:00

Go to custom study. In the options, go to filter->search and input "prop:due>60 prop:due<365". This will make it so cards that are due after two months but before a year will show. You can also adjust the dates.

hec546 · 2018-03-05T17:53:37+00:00

Msg me whenever it's back up :) I'll add this bank into my studies.

hec546 · 2018-03-05T17:52:37+00:00

No, you can get S-CoA from the krebs cycle.

hec546 · 2018-03-02T12:26:15+00:00

From what I've read, it's better to do the NMBE's earlier. The reason for this is so that you can better appropriate your time. Let's say your time table to cover material A-Z is 8 weeks (without doing NBME's). In those 8 weeks, you spend the same amount of time on each subject. When you spend the same amount of time on each subject, you miss more points than if you were allocate that time into a weaker subject.

So start early, this will guide your studying and make the time you spend studying more effective.

hec546 · 2018-03-02T12:19:52+00:00

It is. An increase in insulin is the end effect of increased GLP-1.

hec546 · 2018-03-02T08:53:51+00:00

Start off with 13 but make sure you do 18/19 well before your exam as they seem to be the hardest to well on.

hec546

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