Is 5 weeks enough...

[RIPSanto]

...to complete DIT, pathoma and UWORLD?

I will have a little over 5 weeks of dedicated step 1 time, will I be able to get these done reasonably (not spending 12 hours a day 7days a week)?

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[NewYorkDoctors]

It is enough time to go through it once if you worked hard.

But don't expect any miraculous scores (unless you are a super genius) because the beauty of these sources is to do them a couple of times through and through in order to pick up all the details

 

[Kaputt]

5 weeks is plenty of time for most successful strategies. Just be meticulous and plan out your 5 weeks well.

Remember:
-Do questions every day. No exceptions.
-Reserve a couple days for NBMEs.They're 4 hours long, so take the rest of the day off to recharge your batteries.

 

[panicattackmode]

More than enough. What's even better is having the sense that you are "short" on time will be beneficial.

My personal experience, I took my sweet time. Then took an NBME 14 days from my exam date. Got a 214. Freak out/depressed for a couple of days. Finished my first pass through UWorld 9 days out. Then started redoing all the missed UWorld questions and a re-read of FA/Pathoma/ and flashcards like there was no tomorrow. I could feel a pretty huge lump in my throat for those last few days but I ended with a 241 on the real thing.

 

[premedinsider]

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[cpufreak3]

More than enough. What's even better is having the sense that you are "short" on time will be beneficial.

My personal experience, I took my sweet time. Then took an NBME 14 days from my exam date. Got a 214. Freak out/depressed for a couple of days. Finished my first pass through UWorld 9 days out. Then started redoing all the missed UWorld questions and a re-read of FA/Pathoma/ and flashcards like there was no tomorrow. I could feel a pretty huge lump in my throat for those last few days but I ended with a 241 on the real thing.

Which flashcards did you use?

 

[panicattackmode]

my own. Made from FA, Pathoma and UWorld

 

[AnthrMedStdnt]

...to complete DIT, pathoma and UWORLD?

I will have a little over 5 weeks of dedicated step 1 time, will I be able to get these done reasonably (not spending 12 hours a day 7days a week)?

I am not familiar with DIT. However I used both Pathoma and UWorld extensively during my studying time.

Pathoma on 1.7x speed is 1,192 minutes long. That's about 20 hours of lecture. If you proceed at a sane pace of 8 hrs lecture every day, it'll take 3 days to complete Pathoma. However, I assume that this fast review would be AFTER you have listened to the lectures at a normal pace and annotated your book with his high yield explanations (trust me they are actually high yield 😀).

UWorld has about 2100 questions. 2100 questions over 35 days? That comes to about 60 questions a day which is VERY doable (including review time). I would suggest you go 92 q's a day (Two 46 question blocks TIMED). You'll be done in about 22 days. Which will give the remainder to review incorrects/weak areas.

Also, when is your test?

 

[oanjiwks]

Yes. Not easy, but yes. I did it in 5 weeks. DIT x1, FA x3(if you count the once I went through it during DIT), and all but 9% of UWorld in 5 weeks and 3 days. Did a good bit of pathoma too. Took 2 NBMEs. Only catch is that you have to put in a lot of hours (14+ per day).