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Just wondering?
How are the questions in Blueprints in comparison to the Shelf exams?
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Easier.
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Not worth it.
PreTest if you cant shell out for UWorld. UWorld is the best prep for Shelf Exams.
PreTest if you cant shell out for UWorld. UWorld is the best prep for Shelf Exams.
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World is a great question bank, as is Kaplan's QBook. But I didn't have those for the Shelf Exams. Here's my opinion:
Pre-Test: way too low-yield. Use it for studying, if questions are your thing, but not for gaging how well you'll do on the actual test.
Blueprints Q&A books: NOT the actual Blueprints texts, but the Q&A books they put out for Step 2 around 2006, are great, and I think they were close in difficulty to the actual Shelf exams. They make one for each subject, and your school library probably has them. Others may say otherwise, but I swear by them. So for practice, I say get these.
The text I studied from was Case Files early in my 3rd year, then First Aid for 2K and Kaplan later when I did IMED and FMED. Case Files for Surgery and Psych really helped me on those Shelf exams.
Jake
Pre-Test: way too low-yield. Use it for studying, if questions are your thing, but not for gaging how well you'll do on the actual test.
Blueprints Q&A books: NOT the actual Blueprints texts, but the Q&A books they put out for Step 2 around 2006, are great, and I think they were close in difficulty to the actual Shelf exams. They make one for each subject, and your school library probably has them. Others may say otherwise, but I swear by them. So for practice, I say get these.
The text I studied from was Case Files early in my 3rd year, then First Aid for 2K and Kaplan later when I did IMED and FMED. Case Files for Surgery and Psych really helped me on those Shelf exams.
Jake
