Step I Microbiology - questions, study method?

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I'm almost done reading Clinical Micro Made Ridiculously Simple. I'm surprised by how much I've liked the book so far as I've found the mnemonics and pictures a lot more helpful than I thought I would based on flipping through it briefly before the end of the school year. I feel like I'm retaining most of the big points, but I know I'm not going to go back and re-read the book and get the repetition I normally do.. I think the best way for me to go about finishing up this subject is to read through the tables in the book one more time and use those to annotate First Aid with anything I feel I need to, but I like the idea of being able to do a lot of practice questions for this subject and I don't really want to exhaust the mico questions in my USMLEWorld subscription for micro since i've been doing mixed 48-Q blocks every night.. Anyone know of a good source of micro questions I can use to cement the main points into my brain? Also can anyone comment on what they found successful as far as a method for studying micro was using CMMRS, etc? Thanks
 
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The Kaplan Q book is pretty solid (there's two sections on micro there) - you can easily use it at a bookstore and take notes if you don't want to buy it.

I haven't tried the micro portion of FA's question book yet but it has some that might be useful too.
 
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Thanks! I wouldn't even have looked into the Q book till way later because I thought it was all mixed questions (I got a copy passed down to me from a guy that just graduated).

I haven't done any of the Board Simulator Series questions yet, but does anyone know if the Micro questions from that program are any good? (I realize that its an old question bank and the format has changed since then, but...)
 
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kdburton said:
I haven't done any of the Board Simulator Series questions yet, but does anyone know if the Micro questions from that program are any good? (I realize that its an old question bank and the format has changed since then, but...)
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I did most of the BSS micro questions before the micro shelf, and I think it helped a LOT. Haven't taken Step I yet. I wish I'd made time to do more of those over the last few months.
 
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pseudoknot said:
I did most of the BSS micro questions before the micro shelf, and I think it helped a LOT. Haven't taken Step I yet. I wish I'd made time to do more of those over the last few months.
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Thanks for the response - Anyone else ever use Board Simulator Series (for micro or in general)? How did it work out>?
 
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I haven't tried it but I have heard some good feedback on the questions at the back of Levinsons Medical microbiology and immunology book
 
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