Step I best Behavioral Science book?

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i always get the behavioral science questions wrong (even though they seem so easy and logical to me 😡 )... besides qbank and UW, what's the best way to improve on behavioral science??? would you recommend BRS Behav Sci, HY Behav Sci, or Kaplan?
 
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I liked high yield BS; precisely because it was thinner. If you can budget more than 1-2 days for BS then BRS would probably be better.

(Abbreviation = my view of that section 😳)
 
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I think they were written by the same person, so it is the same info just more expanded in BRS. I used HY and thought it was decent, but not great by any means.
 
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I don't know if you are referring to general behavioral sciences questions (i.e. biostats and whatnot) or to mainly the ethics questions. HY biostats and behavioral sciences I found to be great for the general stuff, I'm sure BRS is fine as well, but the only thing that really helped for the ethics questions was doing questions in Qbank or Qbook. I think most people have problems with those damn questions, and the only way to learn how to answer them right is to do tons of questions and expose yourself to the types of situations that step 1 likes to test. I can tell you that I thought my ethics questions on the actual exam were hard as hell, but I was able to answer a few very confidently because Qbank had similar ones. Do as many questions as you can for the ethics stuff.
 
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Rather than start a new thread, bump for any other comments. Looking for a book to complement FA. Are the questions in BRS worth the difference between HY, or is it better to do QBank questions?
 
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goodies said:
i always get the behavioral science questions wrong (even though they seem so easy and logical to me 😡 )... besides qbank and UW, what's the best way to improve on behavioral science??? would you recommend BRS Behav Sci, HY Behav Sci, or Kaplan?
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I read HY Beh, and some of BRS, but of all of them I really prefered Kaplan.

The kaplan book addressed everything that was on my exam clearly. Plus, it had a nice integration of neuro pharm, path, physio, and anatomy.

More than anything, it provided clearset rules for answering all those "what if" type questions.
 
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HY Behavioral was adequate for all of the BS questions except for the quote questions (which made up most of my BS questions!).
 
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With FIRST AID alone I was able to score 76% on the relevant USMLE World questions. Not sure one needs to go beyond FIRST AID. Learn from the questions and move on, imo.

I hear Kaplan Behavioral is good. If I read one other source it will be this.

We used FIRST AID for the Psychiatric Clerkship for my M2 Psychiatry course. Perhaps this helped me out as well. Not sure. It is also very good.
 
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