Little/no dedicated study STEP 1 time?

[Sea Otter]

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Hi all! I am curious how people who don't have much or any dedicated STEP 1 study time at their schools typically prepare during the year. I was thinking of doing a q bank (USMLERX or Kaplan, not sure which so opinions are welcome on that too!) as well as going through First Aid and pathoma throughout the year then hitting uworld and First Aid harder towards the end of the school year. Any thoughts?! Thanks in advance!

P.s. I tried to do a search before I started this thread but couldn't find anything so I apologize if there is something out there and I just missed it.


"Never half-ass two things, whole-ass one thing." - Ron Swanson

 

[Apoplexy__]

Love the quote.

I only got 3.5 weeks dedicated. Did FA + UWorld + Pathoma along with every subject in 4th semester. Worked out great for classes and put me at 1x pass of each by the time dedicated came around.

 

[Sea Otter]

Love the quote.

I only got 3.5 weeks dedicated. Did FA + UWorld + Pathoma along with every subject in 4th semester. Worked out great for classes and put me at 1x pass of each by the time dedicated came around.

Thanks for the response! Sounds like we have similar schedules. I've been debating whether to do UWorld throughout the year or save it for the end.

 

[Apoplexy__]

Thanks for the response! Sounds like we have similar schedules. I've been debating whether to do UWorld throughout the year or save it for the end.

I didn't do any other QBank besides UWorld, so that's why I did it that way. A guy who got 270+ counseled me on the issue too: He said that with so little dedicated time, you can't afford to leave an entire QBank for dedicated. He told me to try and have it completely done by the beginning of that period. I did that, and I'm really glad I did...the time goes by so quickly and you have an unlimited amount of things that you could potentially do to prepare more.