Help! Nbme 2 = 340/193

[geese]

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Hey guys,

So I just took NBME 2 right now and got 340! which equals 193!...I'm soo lost right now as I've been studying for 3 months during which time I read the kaplan lecture notes 2x and did all of UWORLD (60%). I'm currently doing UWORLD for the 2nd time and scoring around 75-80%. I have 2 months left until the exam! and I really want to score a 99, but this NBME just crushed me. Im not sure what to do now, read the kaplan books again? but it seems to much, I was thinking of doing Master the Boards for Step 2? and continue uworld and then kaplan qbank?

Please any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

 

[OveractiveBrain]

Hey guys,

So I just took NBME 2 right now and got 340! which equals 193!...I'm soo lost right now as I've been studying for 3 months during which time I read the Kaplan lecture notes 2x and did all of UWORLD (60%). I'm currently doing UWORLD for the 2nd time and scoring around 75-80%. I have 2 months left until the exam! and I really want to score a 99, but this NBME just crushed me. Im not sure what to do now, read the kaplan books again? but it seems to much, I was thinking of doing Master the Boards for Step 2? and continue uworld and then kaplan qbank?

Please any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

(1) Is a 193 on that test really a good marker for the real deal? Its just one test. Use other markers of your performance (Kaplan and UWorld have 4-block samplers) to see where you're at. For one, two months is too long let alone two months to go. You may have missed your performance peak and are digging in for the long haul. That being said, take a week off to go do something else, get out of the rut, and come back and start again.

(2) What does reading kaplan books mean? If you are actively engaging the material, it means you are taking notes. The Kaplan lecture notes are as dense as a textbook. If you aren't taking notes (Presentation, Diagnosis, Treatment) you aren't actually using the books. Now that you've read them twice, its a little late to reread them again, but consider this for future tests and when you read nother material for step 2.

(3) Simple study plan. I have a friend (and I tell this story alot for people who follow this forum often) who got a 212/88 on Step 1. Not very good, right? She read First Aid twice and did UWorld once, studying for one month, dedicated to studying. She got a 232/99. Thats a twenty point jump. Granted, the average is shifted by 10 anyway, but huge improvement.

(4) Repeating UWorld wont really help you. Yu are focusing only on those questions, and if you see a similar question you will knee-jerk that answer, even though the question is different.

(5) Overall suggestions. Read First Aid or Step Up. These are the take-way knowledge books. But they can be condensed even further. Take your UWolrd and Kaplan knowledge and fill in the margins with tight high-yield material (Multiple sclerosis, Pt: senosory or motor deficits serparted in space and in time, diplopia, Dx: MRI periventricular white matter, ancillary tests not done anymore..., Tx: etc etc). Get a different Qbank. You've done the good one, so I have no real good recommendation for the next.

Good Luck!