early Qbankers

[7abiby]

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Hey guys,

I was wondering what's the experience of those of you that have started doing Qbank early (as opposed to during your Step1 study period)?

I'm not taking Step 1 for another two months but I've already gone through first aid and most of Goljan RR and I'm about half-way through Qbank. I find it to be a good study tool b/c it helps me remember I previously read in FA or RR; however, I'm not sure if I should be discouraged with my score. I started in the high 40s low 50s and now I'm right on the average mark - 61%. I'm hoping my score will keep going up but I don't know if I should be too worried if I never crack 70% by the time I'm done. My hope is that I'll do better during my dedicated 4-5 wk study period for Step 1 when I go review everything all over again and go through USMLEWorld.

Anybody with any advice or similar experience?

 

[crys20]

haha i was doing the same thing, after winning the 3 mo qbank early. i have not done much at all with first aid and a little with goljan rr, but mostly have just been studying my a** off for 2nd year classes and annotating a little here and there (my new years resolution is to start hardcore board directed study second semester!) - but yes, my qbank is rough too, and i'm even cherry picking questions based on topics i know already! but ya, mine is like 62 with 10% done or whatever so you are in really great shape i think...everyone says finishing qbank with a 70% or so puts you in the position to do great. my plan is the same, to do uworld later and i think our doing qbank early will show when we do that and the nbmes! i'm also using all my wrong qbanks to annotate the review books with little things they have in their explanations that i don't yet have...so in conclusion i think you're doing great! 🙂

 

[myrtle]

I'm an early Q-banker too! I'm not taking it until June (I picked my date today!) but I'm using it to review for classes and get used to the testing format. I plan to switch to UWorld too about two months before the test. My average right now is artificially high since I went back and did some that I had done before AND I'm cherry-picking. Once I start on UWorld, I'll switch to random.

I think I'll go back through and annotate First Aid with this higher yield stuff - I've been avoiding doing that with too much class stuff, good idea 🙂

 

[tony montana]

I am an early Qbanker too

Will be taking my exam end of May/early June

 

[InternationlDoc]

I'm an early Q-banker too! I'm not taking it until June (I picked my date today!) but I'm using it to review for classes and get used to the testing format. I plan to switch to UWorld too about two months before the test. My average right now is artificially high since I went back and did some that I had done before AND I'm cherry-picking. Once I start on UWorld, I'll switch to random.

I think I'll go back through and annotate First Aid with this higher yield stuff - I've been avoiding doing that with too much class stuff, good idea 🙂

In the early Q-bank club. Along with the above poster, my scores are artificially high (90% 😱 for 180 questions so far). Great tool once pathology goes systems.

Here is a question, no matter how nit-picky stuff I remember there is always a question that brings in new knowledge but seems irrelevant to me <-- advantage/disadvantage of Qbank? or whatever is on qbank is high-yield? confused here

oh well, can't wait for random questions on UWorld

 

[78222]

I'm using it as an adjunct for my m2 classes but also throwing in the m1 stuff. I'm sitting at a 64 right now which seems like it should be higher considering I'm studying the stuff in my classes.

 

[dr. princess]

hi which Qbank are u guys studying is it the one online? how much is it? my friend is planning on taking step1 , qbank seems a good one so planning to tell her about it. any info would be great! thanks!

 

[bbkdh]

hi which Qbank are u guys studying is it the one online? how much is it? my friend is planning on taking step1 , qbank seems a good one so planning to tell her about it. any info would be great! thanks!

http://www.kaplanmedical.com/Medical_Licensing/Qbank/qbank-central.html?cid=11137