Step I How am I doing?

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I am scheduled to take Step 1 on June 13, and we will get about 4.5 weeks of dedicated. I have started to use UWorld questions, and my plan is to get through UWorld 2x, and also use FA, Pathoma and Sketchy. Right now, I am about 10% of the way done with my first pass of UWorld, and I am averaging about 40% on the exams, correlating to the 10th percentile. Obviously, that's not great, but I'm wondering how that relates to someone just starting Step prep, with nearly 5 months to go. If it is really bad, what can/should I do to improve my exam prep? Thanks!
 
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aftomdhopeful said:
I am scheduled to take Step 1 on June 13, and we will get about 4.5 weeks of dedicated. I have started to use UWorld questions, and my plan is to get through UWorld 2x, and also use FA, Pathoma and Sketchy. Right now, I am about 10% of the way done with my first pass of UWorld, and I am averaging about 40% on the exams, correlating to the 10th percentile. Obviously, that's not great, but I'm wondering how that relates to someone just starting Step prep, with nearly 5 months to go. If it is really bad, what can/should I do to improve my exam prep? Thanks!
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I am sorta starting it now myself. I score 60% on average and sometimes get 70-80% if i do like 40 Qs 2 days before organ block exam. I think 40 is okay now if you are just doing random (we have yet to cover 50% of the information). My date is early June as well. I have not done UWorld yet (will start in 2 weeks maybe) but I have done about 500 questions on USMLERx
 
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I am sorta starting it now myself. I score 60% on average and sometimes get 70-80% if i do like 40 Qs 2 days before organ block exam. I think 40 is okay now if you are just doing random (we have yet to cover 50% of the information). My date is early June as well. I have not done UWorld yet (will start in 2 weeks maybe) but I have done about 500 questions on USMLERx
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Thank you for that feedback! Yeah, I am just doing random questions right now, so nothing specific to organ blocks or anything we are learning at the time.
 
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