Finish Remaining UWorld in Earnest or Fly Through It?

[thedoctor8706]

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I take Step I in 20 days, and am well into my Doctor's In Training 2013 course and am loving it (as much as one can love review 😴), but unfortunately I have about 1500 UWorld questions left to go. I have been doing one 46 question block a day, then spending about 2 hours annotating/reviewing what I got wrong or didn't understand. This is about all I can afford to spend on UWorld if I want to finish my Doctor's In Training Course at the high rate I am going. Our school has only given me 2 weeks of dedicated study time without any other exams to worry about 🙁 I started UWorld way too late in the game and am now regretting it.

My question is, should I keep doing UWorld the way I have been and be happy with the progress I can make? Or should I take whatever I can't finish and just blow through the questions, only for the sake of having seen them once? I browsed through the many threads on UWorld, but didn't quite find the answer I was looking for.

I have been doing well on my NBME subject exams (80th percentile ranges), but I really need a good Step I score since I had to repeat second year. I figured out my learning problem, fixed it, and now want to prove that I made the adjustments needed in order to hang with the rest of this year's class.

Thanks!

 

[withrye]

I personally think a focused review is better, working as quickly as possible without sacrificing too much quality reviewing. If you can already see on UW that you have weak subjects, maybe you can target those in UW. I'd strongly trying to fit 2 blocks in each day though.

 

[planktonelement]

I agree with withrye. Do more uworld blocks (at least 3 a day). Keep in mind that you'll start speeding up as you go since you'll learn the concepts better and have a much better baseline to work from (the lac operon questions for example...) Since uworld has some high yield stuff that's not in FA and it forces you to link up concepts, you'd probably be cheating yourself if you didn't do a thorough run through of it.

 

[thedoctor8706]

Thanks for the replies, I guess I will definitely start making UWorld more of a priority!