Difficulty of actual Step 1 relative to UW? & what about Histo?

[swtiepie711]

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Lately I've been hearing from pp that UW isn't as hard as the actual exam? Is this true? Would love to hear thoughts on this (I found a prior post that was mainly talking about UW vs Kaplan so sorry if this is a repeat)

Also, I've now heard of pp claiming they had "lots of histo" or "lots of anatomy" on their exams - as I'm down to the wire, I haven't exactly spent a lot of time on these, figuring I'd pick up the key points from UW. Is this stupid? Should I sit down & read BRS Histo?

Thanks for anyone with thoughts. These recent whisperings have been shaking my confidence, so I'm just curious if I should be doing things differently (not much I can do at this point, but figured I'd ask...) 🙂

 

[ENThopeful]

im curious as well. I took a look at the high yield histo book, and its awesome, it ties in alot of physiology that really sums things up

 

[gsmithers68]

Lately I've been hearing from pp that UW isn't as hard as the actual exam? Is this true? Would love to hear thoughts on this (I found a prior post that was mainly talking about UW vs Kaplan so sorry if this is a repeat)

Also, I've now heard of pp claiming they had "lots of histo" or "lots of anatomy" on their exams - as I'm down to the wire, I haven't exactly spent a lot of time on these, figuring I'd pick up the key points from UW. Is this stupid? Should I sit down & read BRS Histo?

Thanks for anyone with thoughts. These recent whisperings have been shaking my confidence, so I'm just curious if I should be doing things differently (not much I can do at this point, but figured I'd ask...) 🙂

Both topics can be best reviewed by just going back over the anatomy and histology questions available on UW, and maybe skimming through case files for anatomy or something like that in a borders... Most of those Q's are really straight forward or incredibly hard and you aren't going to get them from studying because of the randomness and breadth of material... same with histo in this respect. Either its easy, or its way way way over anybody's head and you'll be asking yourself why the hell they wasted a question asking you that.

UW is more complex questions than the step... the step is predominantly first or second order questions with a small number of 3rd order questions. UW is primarily 2nd and 3rd order. So, you will find on the step that 60-70% of the q's are pretty familiar and rather straightforward (relatively speaking because none of the q's are exactly easy..) and then 20-30% will be pretty hard... especially the obscure physio ones with tons of arrows that make you integrate tons of information about the disease state.

 

[nope80]

Any other opinions from those that have already taken it? How does it compare to UWorld?

 

[sebsvenmdc]

I have heard in terms of frequency...

UW is harder than the Step 1:UW is easier than the Step 1

about 5:1

I haven't taken it though, but it seems like that is the common consensus.

 

[Slide]

I'm starting to hear the initial results of the early takers and one person's opinion of it was that he'd rather take 300 more Step 1 q's than do another UWorld assessment. Take that for what it is, I'm still going to treat the real thing as if it were as hard as UWorld.

 

[SnakeEyes]

I'm starting to hear the initial results of the early takers and one person's opinion of it was that he'd rather take 300 more Step 1 q's than do another UWorld assessment. Take that for what it is, I'm still going to treat the real thing as if it were as hard as UWorld.

meaning that UW was more difficult? or that UW was not indicative of what was tested.

 

[TXDO]

I'm starting to hear the initial results of the early takers and one person's opinion of it was that he'd rather take 300 more Step 1 q's than do another UWorld assessment. Take that for what it is, I'm still going to treat the real thing as if it were as hard as UWorld.

Yup, never underestimate your enemy.😎

 

[Slide]

meaning that UW was more difficult? or that UW was not indicative of what was tested.

I'm assuming that he meant UW > Step 1 in terms of difficulty, but at the same time don't let that give you a false sense of security.