USMLE Official 2020 Step 1 Experiences and Scores Thread

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feel like im taking my exam too late. Last 4 or 5 blocks of uworld ive done over the past couple of days haven't been in the 80s yet. Feeling like I passed my peak
I think it just fluctuates depending on the block. I have streaks of days where I'm in the 80s consistently and think I'm finally done with 70s for good, and then it gets followed by days in the 70s. It freaks me out too but I think the overall percentage is what matters more? Since blocks are just all over the place.
 
I think it just fluctuates depending on the block. I have streaks of days where I'm in the 80s consistently and think I'm finally done with 70s for good, and then it gets followed by days in the 70s. It freaks me out too but I think the overall percentage is what matters more? Since blocks are just all over the place.

Yeah youre probably right. Like today the block avg was a 58%, so getting like a 75% on that is pretty much same as getting 80% on a block with a 65 average
 
So after taking a day to chill I feel much more calm. I also made a mistake when I got my score report. I though on NBME 16 I had gotten a 210. I got a 200. So taking NBME 21 a week later I was able to improve my score by 10 points. Is it the score I want? no, but I've made a 10 point increase with each exam I've taken and thats kinda nice. by that logic maybe Ill get a 220 on NBME 24 lol. My biggest mistake for the MCAT is that I did not target my review areas to what i was bad at. I have a month left and I am not going to make that mistake again with this. My drive is strong after a day off and I'm ready to just buckle up and skrt skrt to a 230.
It would seem like you're in a good position for a 230. You definitely have time to do Uworld a incorrect/(second pass?) and another qbank (amboss?) if you push. It seems like that would get you there with the content review? I lost track of where you were in uworld, but I think the key in this final 40 days or whatever is to really push at the expense of mental health. Even if you don't do well on the 2nd q bank questions, just reading through all of it with the explanations would be a big advantage compared to if you just settled for 10 hours a studying a day
 
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You're so close keep pushing! I've finally experienced Zanki freedom these past couple of days and it's been absolutely glorious.

MFW I finally suspend the STEP 1 deck and download the Step 2 CK deck

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All right y'all, just got to my hotel near the school I'm testing at and am about to go grab dinner and then do some light HY review. Hopefully I can get more than 2-3 hours of sleep tonight. I probably won't be coming back on here until after my exam tomorrow so I will see you all on the other side!
 
All right y'all, just got to my hotel near the school I'm testing at and am about to go grab dinner and then do some light HY review. Hopefully I can get more than 2-3 hours of sleep tonight. I probably won't be coming back on here until after my exam tomorrow so I will see you all on the other side!
Skettitttt! You got it bro. Own that ****
 
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YOU GUYS. It finally happened. Met (and surpassed) my 90% goal. And somehow in that same block, forgot that normal chromosomes are 46 not 47 so didn't pick an obvious Klinefelter lol.
 
All right y'all, just got to my hotel near the school I'm testing at and am about to go grab dinner and then do some light HY review. Hopefully I can get more than 2-3 hours of sleep tonight. I probably won't be coming back on here until after my exam tomorrow so I will see you all on the other side!
Yes!! Go kill it, we are all rooting for you #fam
 
Anyone stoped doing anki during their dedicated ? I'm like 2 weeks away from my test date and need to get more questions done and think I need to abandon anki but worried ima start forgetting things
 
Anyone stoped doing anki during their dedicated ? I'm like 2 weeks away from my test date and need to get more questions done and think I need to abandon anki but worried ima start forgetting things
My current struggle right now. I think I'm just going to be miserable and add another hour of studying a day so I can do more questions. I finished all new cards today (woot woot) and I'm hoping that my review count will start to becomes more manageable now.
 
My current struggle right now. I think I'm just going to be miserable and add another hour of studying a day so I can do more questions. I finished all new cards today (woot woot) and I'm hoping that my review count will start to becomes more manageable now.
Congrats! Im just nervous that my test date is coming up and I need to be doing way more questions and anki taking up6-7 hours of my day. That could be spent doing 3-4 UWorld blocks
 
Congrats! Im just nervous that my test date is coming up and I need to be doing way more questions and anki taking up6-7 hours of my day. That could be spent doing 3-4 UWorld blocks
Same I do that amount to, sometimes more. Sucks that its the best way I learn. Even when doing practice problems I feel like I learn more from zanki
 
Congrats! Im just nervous that my test date is coming up and I need to be doing way more questions and anki taking up6-7 hours of my day. That could be spent doing 3-4 UWorld blocks
bro lmao wayyyyyyyyyyyy too much time on anki in my opinion. Thats time u could be doing more questions. If i were u id cut back half that time at the very least. Just my opinion but you know yourself better than anyone!
 
Twins. I only do pepper pharm/micro when i wake up and before bed. Thinking about doing biochem though. which bchem deck u do?

my biochem deck is weird. what I did in the beginning of dedicated was go through the biochem section in FA, and unsuspend only things that I wasn't 100% good on and do those cards. The biochem Zanki deck is way too big to do the whole thing
 
my biochem deck is weird. what I did in the beginning of dedicated was go through the biochem section in FA, and unsuspend only things that I wasn't 100% good on and do those cards. The biochem Zanki deck is way too big to do the whole thing
I just finished it the other day. absolutely brutal
 
Only Anki ive been doing is my uworld reviews, pharm and micro. Sometimes biochem because its biochem
How are you able to just pinpoint these topics? I did the method where u mix all your anki cards into one master deck so that reviews are random and now I regret not being able to target specific topics because they are all mixed up now.
 
I’m probably spending closer to 10 hours a day on Anki... but I’m also learning content since I just pumped and dumped all year and feel like I know nothing. I do better making my own cards, so I’m making my own off of DIT + Uworld and I’m probably adding 300-ish new cards a day. Reviewing alone is five+ hours; I probably spend another five more hours making cards off of videos/questions.

I know this is how I learn best, though, so I’m just sucking it up and going for it. Obviously it would have been better if I’d just learned all this stuff before dedicated but I can’t do anything about that now.
 
How are you able to just pinpoint these topics? I did the method where u mix all your anki cards into one master deck so that reviews are random and now I regret not being able to target specific topics because they are all mixed up now.

I have separate decks for every organ system/section. Like I have a GI deck, cardio, micro, pharm, biochem, etc. I put them all under a master deck though so if I want to do them mixed I can
 
bro lmao wayyyyyyyyyyyy too much time on anki in my opinion. Thats time u could be doing more questions. If i were u id cut back half that time at the very least. Just my opinion but you know yourself better than anyone!
Yeah my 15 hour study days were just too much, dropping anki and just do cards from Uworld and finish U world might be better use of my time.
 
Just booked a "practice session" at the prometric that is 4h long 6-days before my exam date. I think the 3-blocks you get tested on the practice sess is the free-120 but I'm not sure.
 
235 on NBME 24! Pretty happy with this.

Edit: 80% correct. I had trouble getting in the zone in block 1 so missed 13/9/9/9. At least most of the blocks were consistent? Also, had one really stupid one where I clicked the wrong part of the renal tubule, then realized as soon as I ended the block that I clicked the wrong part lol. Really hoping stupid stuff like that doesn't happen on test day.
 
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235 on NBME 24! Pretty happy with this.
Nice!! Did your percent correct seem to correlate with your UWorld%? I got 82% correct on 24 but my %correct on UW is 76%. I know youre always keeping up with practice test stats and how people did last year so do you know what the general consensus is as far as difficulty of 24 compared to the other new ones?
 
Nice!! Did your percent correct seem to correlate with your UWorld%? I got 82% correct on 24 but my %correct on UW is 76%. I know youre always keeping up with practice test stats and how people did last year so do you know what the general consensus is as far as difficulty of 24 compared to the other new ones?
80% correct on 24, 75.4% on UWorld currently. All I can report is people say that 24 is a good one compared to others, I don't know much else unfortunately. I did feel like it was more of a fair test and I didn't find myself going WTF as much (although I definitely still did a few times).
 
@Deecee2DO you can definitely see how the curve is already starting to adjust from last year when it first came out. You said you got 82% and I think you had what, like a 238? I remember AnatomyGrey hopping on this thread and saying he got 82-83% and had like a 242 on 24.
 
80% correct on 24, 75.4% on UWorld currently. All I can report is people say that 24 is a good one compared to others, I don't know much else unfortunately. I did feel like it was more of a fair test and I didn't find myself going WTF as much (although I definitely still did a few times).
felt the same way. Hoping 24 underpredicts! It has to lol dont all the new ones? Im gonna guess by at least 10? We are pretty much twins score wise btw
 
@Deecee2DO you can definitely see how the curve is already starting to adjust from last year when it first came out. You said you got 82% and I think you had what, like a 238? I remember AnatomyGrey hopping on this thread and saying he got 82-83% and had like a 242 on 24.
You are statqueen. Your insane memory will serve you well lol
 
felt the same way. Hoping 24 underpredicts! It has to lol dont all the new ones? Im gonna guess by at least 10? We are pretty much twins score wise btw
From Reddit: "Good rule of thumb is that your score will be >10 of your lowest most recent NBME (like 18/24) and <10 of your UWSA2."

I still think UWSA2 is the best predictor and from browsing Wednesday's score release thread, most people seemed to be +/-5 of that score. I've honestly pretty much stopped trying to interpret data on the predictiveness of the NBMEs. I've seen numbers going all over the place on Reddit. They seem to be more predictive at higher score ranges? At any rate I would take a 235 tbh so I am pleased with it.
 
Anyone know of a good site to monitor when Prometric sites open up?? WOuld love one closer to home to ease test day nerves.
 
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