Best Studying strategy for step 1

[waltersing]

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Help\me!! I want to study for the USMLE step-1 test but i am confused with all this info. Where should i start from? I have seen more than 50 books for step-1 specificly... Ahich ones are the best? Most preffered? Cheaper? Easier to study? More effective?

Also to those who passed step-1 : which books did YOU study from?

Thank you in advance!

 

[Magunda]

Hey mate,
If you wanna get a good score in step 1, here is what you need to do
1. Go over Kaplan Lecture notes use it in Conjugation with the Video Lectures. Watching the video lectures will save you time reading the notes.
2. Read the First Aid 3+ times. Know it Cold, inside out
3. Go over Goljan Audio Lectures and H.Y Notes (36p+100p)
4. Do as Many Questions as possible (QBOOK, Qbank, USMLE WORLD...)
5. Other secondary Valuable resources to use during your studies: BRS Path, Behav. Science, Phsyio, Micro Made RS

If you follow this plan, you will surly get 90+
I studied from this material only, for about 12 weeks and I scored 93/227, and I'm no genius just an average student, so if I can do it, so can you!
If you need any of the material send me a Private message.

Good Luck!

 

[Pepsy]

Hey guys. This forum has immensely helped me narrow down my plan to study for step 1 but i would like some specific advice on materials and the schedule im planning to follow through to obtain a good score.
Aim: >90%
Length of study - 4-6mths (starting jan.) 10 hrs/day (breaks here n there as needed)

- Kaplan Lecture notes (4 volumes) (i thought the video might slow me down. suggestions?) - 2X
- FA 07, FA cases, FA questions (starting every day with FA for 2-3 hrs)
- Goljan Notes (roughly 300pg)
- Goljan Audio, once with notes then repeats while working out or travel)
- Bhushan's UCV's
- BRS physio and BRS Path
- Any dudek's HY i should buy? like for neuro, etc.


- various Questions, Qbank (3mth), NBME(1,2,3), Robbins Review, Qbook
- Doing questions at end of every day 2-3 hrs, relative to what i had just studied. More questions (7blocks/day) in the last few weeks.

- last week (general review+alot more questions+longer hours) I might do the 6-day plan i read in this forum.

I thought of using all sources one after the other per section by section. (mostly system based, primary structure being kaplan notes). so the plan would be:

Example: Start with FA biochem everyday, then kaplan biochem, after completion go on to UCV biochem, biochem questions, Reviewing day's biochem for 1/2 hr to 1hr at very end of day, then work out, then phone/chat/forum/PS2, then sleep.

Thanks so much in advance. Please feel free to critique if necessary, cause when it comes to step i understand that the key is not so much about the knowledge, its the art. Good Luck to everyone who has yet to beat the beast.

 

[jon0013]

damn 10 hours a day starting january...when are you gonna do MS2 stuff?

 

[docjolly]

bump

Hey y'all, i'll be prepping for step I soon, and the advice above seems helpful. my only problem is that this semester, our class schedule lasts roughly from
8am-5pm 😱 😱 😱

does anyone have any advice about this? classes began today, and I couldn't even sit in lecture past 3pm b/c I was so tired 🙁