I feel like crap and I still have 4 weeks tomorrow. Might have something to do with me having 19 planned for tomorrow and having a sense of impending doom lol
i feel like crap at baseline.
I've just resigned myself to feeling like crap until I have that match letter in hand. So goes the life of a DO wanting to do something competitive.
I got yelled at by uworld for trying to copy paste this link lol, here ya go!
I know, I mean the average numbers are high for what they are reporting but that’s what you get online I guess. The average reported step was like 240 something haha high achievers. Even that calculator puts some decently high numbers out. This is all such an individualized process with how you work through it all I gues it’s hard to predict
FWIW, and honestly im probably not the best person to give advice on any of this bc i slept less than 4 hours on both step 1 and CK and felt like **** throughout the day on both days, but i poured 1-2 5 hour energy drinks into a large bottle of water and drank those throughout the day for constant, steady caffeine. I also ate bites of a PBJ on whole wheat bread every break instead of eating a whole lunch in any sitting. Didnt have much of an appetite honestly.
Exactly. I feel good on my knowledge base but apparently my test taking skills suck? It’s like every one I get wrong is that “duh” feeling, making me feel like an idiot. This process is brutalLiterally I'm at the point where I'm not sure what I don't know or what I do know. Just give me questions and lets see if I can get get them right
Im on the opposite side of the spectrum. I feel like I know nothing.
Ignorance is bliss haha I most definitely do not know everything, as evidenced by my practice scores. Idk what to think and I’m 6 weeks out
Right there with ya. Every block of uworld = so much new information despite scoring > 70-75%
I want to know how a computer can misgrade something done by 1000s of people?!
You all don't think it would be a waste of $$ to not finish it in 2 weeks? I feel likes it's made me better with seeing things in fa or showing which zanki cards I only knew bc of context or didn't know bc wasn't closed
I also don't really understand the whole 'baseline' notion because I think people use the word in different contexts.
Yea I followed that study of more Q's higher score so that's a big reason I wanted to continue. I have like 11 weeks to my test but again some weeks will be full time, other half days
With 11 weeks left I would see if you could not only finish Rx but also do Kaplan and UWorld
Unlikely some of the full days I'll have less than 4 hours to study and keeping up with zanki will take at least 3. I have like two weeks where I have lots of time but they're too early for me to finish uworld.
Thanks. Might just finish the Rx by doing more since I'm not missing an exorbant amount and spend less time reviewing since there's not as much to review now vs back when it gave me more trouble
Aiming to have a week of wiggle room if i can keep with my schedule, my last week will just be a pass of FA and pathoma, sketchy, some anki, and UWSA2/Free120.
Nah, I'm sure it'd be helpful though. But after hearing that number of unique questions was more important than another pass of the same questions I reprioritized and instead of starting my dedicated with UW and aim for a pass of wrongs/or a second pass I started with focusing on content and doing kaplan for 1-2weeks before starting UW. So instead I just try and learn the concepts I get wrong as best I can, make a card/note, and hope I learned it well enough to not make the same mistake twice.
What do you think of doing Kaplan after uworld? I always hear how uworld makes you a good test taker I wonder if that skill wears off. Also when people talk about peaking for step 1 it makes me depressed since I feel like if I have no dedicated or suddenly am busier before the exam I'll just lose what I learned.
I think its fine, i just saved UW till the end because theres stronger evidence to support a correlation of UW% with USMLE score (because everyone thinks UW is the best so everyone does it so theres more data on it) so i could use it to gauge where im at more accurately(as other people have pointed out theres a strong responder bias with these reddit studies so YMMV). Im sure theres could be a "peak" or even a "plateau" in some peoples dedicated, i dont really think that has to correlate with when you use UW. It could but i have no idea. As long as you feel like youre learning then it doesnt matter that you didnt do UW all the way up until test day, theres plenty of concepts that kaplan qs will be able to teach you as well (i feel their physio is very strong). Just save a NBME 18 the free 120 or UWSA2 til near the end since people claim some of those are "like the exam". If UW really does teach you to be a better test taker then id imagine you wouldnt lose test taking skills that quickly (i assume we're talking a few weeks before the exam?)
I think one month before the exam is when there will be more full days than half but I couldn't take it earlier for other reasons. So essentially it will be like having 4-5 hours weekdays at most and hopefully 8-10 hour weekends. Maybe by then my zanki cards will be supernatural so that won't be as big of a time sink but I've read posts from people who regretted stopping and others who felt stopping was a good move.
