Only have time to redo uworld?

[herewego]

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I have a little less than 3 weeks left, started studying for CK a few days ago. Am I gonna be screwed if I only have time to go through uworld, maybe an assessment and nbme?

I've already gone through uworld during 3rd year. I go super slow. Do the set, review every question/explanation and take notes, then later on review the notes. This served me well during shelf exams.

Little worried about this, should I just start blazing through uworld to get to some reading? I have MTB2/3.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[radfish723]

If you're taking notes on the things you missed, I don't see a reason to do multiple passes. I know a lot of people won't agree, but if you only have a couple weeks left, I'd suggest studying your old notes and covering more ground with new questions (ie Kaplan or Pre-Test). Especially if your old strategy was to go through super slow, you'll want to practice your speed on questions that you haven't seen before.

As for assessments, I did one (UWorld) just to make sure I was on the right track. If you do too many, you'll just psych yourself out and they're not going to help your score. I think my self assessment was like 2 points lower than my actual.

Get through questions and spend the next couple weeks telling yourself you'll do fine, and you'll do fine!

 

[njmedstudent973]

Wrote it yesterday. Honestly this time for ck compared to step 1 I really focused on doing questions and learning from that and of course the books on the side. Did uworld 2x one complete time during my studying vs the first pass throughout clinicals. From my exam ill tell u that using uworld as a prep and learning tool was the smartest idea and the nbmes. Exam was dead on to that literally felt like I was doing uworld qs or nbme and honestly hardest part is time management and fatigue because as far as the questions went they weren't anything to absurd like step 1 it was all pretty much logical application as opposed to memorizing random **** for step 1. If you can think ok here's the pt with blah what would u do in an emergent situation vs physician visit you will nail this exam. Don't get tripped up when they put all these elaborate worded answer choices and ure like wth?! Or when they love to reword a term you know to throw you off and waste ure timing thinking wth are they talking about when you realize they just found a new way to say blood pressure lol