If you had one week left before Step 1...

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What would you spend that time studying/reviewing?

Physio?
Path?
First Aid?
Mol bio?
Pharm?
Micro?
Immuno?
Biochem?
IV Q bank?
Q bank questions you got wrong?
etc
 
All I did was hours of q bank questions and looked over the highest of the high yield topics(we're talking stuff you KNOW will be on there ie not embryology). If you do enough questions you should review the major topics. Just my 2 cents but what do i know I'm just a stupid doctor as of 4 days ago 😀 Good luck and most people i knew seemed to do better than they thought they would.
 
I'd sell my car and buy a bunch of blow. I'd call up all of my old high school teachers and tell them to kiss my ass. I'd steal a motorcycle and drive it through a shopping mall and then I'd have a party in my hotel room with three high-priced call girls. That's what I'd do if I only had a week to live.
 
Sorry, its been two years and i can't even begin to imagine/remember what was on step 1. But, for example, on step 2 there are always, always, always questions about the different types of abortions(i had 10), about anterior/posterior shoulder dislocations, pediatric heart murmurs etc. These are the same questions they put on the test every year and there are only so many ways to ask about an ectopic pregnancy and q bank usually covered it. So the week before the test i made sure i knew those topics cold because i could not bear the thought of missing questions on topics that the class ahead of me said were on there and the class of ahead them said were on there. Now, granted i remember step 1 pooling questions from LOT bigger pool of subjects but I'm sure the mechanism of action for common antibiotics will be on there and I'd make sure you know your brachial plexus and what winging of the scapula/waiters tip/saturday night palsy means 🙂. Good luck and pretty soon you'll be third years and no more studying useless subjects like biochem or immunology and step 2 is cake compared to step 1.
 
My last week i plan to do very high yield things like BUgs and drugs- micro and pharm make sure you know cold. If you used brs path and FA I would read through each 2 times. so basically Read FA and BRS path twice, and go through drugs and micro bugs
 
Thanks,

I've just been wondering what the real deal is - people are returning from boards and I'm hearing that some had a lot of anatomy, some had a lot of cell bio, some had a lot of physio, etc. How can the proportion of questions be so different? Is there not a set ratio - for instance 40% path, 20% physio, etc? I had a friend who said he didn't have much pharm.
Are these based on people's perceptions? or is it really possible to get an exam that is 50% pharm or 50% physio or mol bio?

I'm reading thru high yield mol bio now and later FA biochem - thinking about doing nbme exam 2 tomorrow and reading thru FA path and phys and BRS path. Maybe I'll look at the physio figures in BRS. I can't make up my mind!

I really haven't spent much time with FA - but I'm giving myself 4 days before the exam to review only that - for some reason FA just doesn't do it for me - although most people say it's the way to go.
 
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