advice what to do the week before the exam?

[kasra138]

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Hi,
my exam is in a week. I have 30% of UW left and I want to do one more NBME (#3) before the test. I am happy with the amount of work I have put into preparing and aiming for anything above 220. And I have two questions:

1) what do you think the most important resources to go over the week before the test? FA, UW questions redoing them? any ideas...

2) someone mentioned that there might be videos on the exam...do you have any idea where I can get sample videos to look at?
thank you

 

[Phallacious]

I think you should visualize a green dot on the wall during the exam

 

[kasra138]

I think you should visualize a green dot on the wall during the exam

Thank you for your comment but I was hoping I could get more useful advice. regards

 

[latinfridley]

Hey kasra,
I took the exam this past saturday, and my advice would be to go through first aid again. Nearly everything you need to know will come from FA. I would be sure and review the Renal/Reproductive and pharm sections. Those were fairly heavily emphasized on my exam.
The most difficult thing about the exam is the anxiety and the fact it is 7 hrs worth of questions.

 

[Terpskins99]

Hey kasra,
I took the exam this past saturday, and my advice would be to go through first aid again. Nearly everything you need to know will come from FA. I would be sure and review the Renal/Reproductive and pharm sections. Those were fairly heavily emphasized on my exam.
The most difficult thing about the exam is the anxiety and the fact it is 7 hrs worth of questions.

I second this approach. Though its tempting to try to finish all of UWorld, your remaining time is best spent reinforcing the basics again.

I think you can find at least 75%+ of the questions on Step I addressed in some way in First Aid.

Maybe do a block of 50 questions of UWorld per day just to keep a routine. I wouldn't recommend doing an NBME this late, as a poor score (which #3 is notorious for underestimating) may only serve add unwanted anxiety.