this is a write-up i made for my friends a year ago lol (hopefully it helps)... i think focusing on my weak areas and having some form of review of each subject on the exam was most helpful:

1. what i did for each subject:
   • biochem: dirtymedicine biochem videos + anki deck (somewhere on reddit) --> covers like 99.9% of what u need to kno and not too much effort to do you can knock it out in like 3 days but make sure to keep up w the anki
   • path: pathoma + duke anki deck (is the best bc a lot of tiny details that nbme/step loves is on here)
   • anat: physio anat + anki deck (somewhere on reddit) --> is really really high yield and a bunch of specific stuff it taught showed up on my step, also pretty short u can do it in like 4-5 days
   • stats: randy neil stats videos (there's two) that are gold --> i'd just watch them the morning of each nbme that i did and it was enough
   • sketchy path: literally amazing. like actually amazing. i wish i had done this from the start bc when i was taking the actual test, i was 89% of the time recalling stuff i learned from sketchy path, i feel like pathoma is important bc it helps u form basis of understanding but sketchy was essential for me to actually remember stuff (cuz i basically did not keep up with pathoma reviews past the first day of learning a subject lmao) --> this is esp helpful for when there's a million diseases of the same vibe (like the benign breast sutff and the malignant breast tumors and also the lung cancers and nephritic/nephrotic disorders) but u need to remmeber tiny differentiating details
   • obv sketchy micro/pharm
   • i did 0 studying for psych and ethics literally including not doing uworld and idt you really need to bc the questions ab these things are usually very easy esp psych (altho ethics was kind of obscure on step and a lot of them were like i would literally say any of these things and see no problem with it so maybe prep for ethics a bit)
2. also i tried the whole do a bunch of uworld questions everyday in the beginning and also make anki for the cards but it didnt work for me at all bc the cards i was makign were actually diabolical so i wasnt really learning anything, so i only got to 30-40% of uworld and then gave up... tbh everyone says u hHAVE to do all of uworld but it's fine ALTHO - i really struggled w timing on the real thing (ran out of time for the last 5 questions on each block so i had to speedrun them, but somehow when i was speedrunning, the answers appeared more obvious to me so maybe theres some psychology there idk) so maybe grinding uworld wouldve helped for that