Practice question sources for M1?

[guitarguy23]

A lot of people say practice questions are a great way to study/reinforce what you learn for exams in M1. Where can I find some practice questions to help in my courses? A bunch of people mention gunner training, and qbanks, but aren't those Step 1 specific?

I have a few BRS books for my courses starting this fall, but other than those and maybe old tests I come across, I'm not sure where else I can find good practice questions. Thoughts?

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[moneytree]

A lot of people say practice questions are a great way to study/reinforce what you learn for exams in M1. Where can I find some practice questions to help in my courses? A bunch of people mention gunner training, and qbanks, but aren't those Step 1 specific?

I have a few BRS books for my courses starting this fall, but other than those and maybe old tests I come across, I'm not sure where else I can find good practice questions. Thoughts?

GT is basically just an Anki version of FA. The questions aren't written in the step format, so it's not really step specific. USMLERx, Kaplan Qbank, UWorld, etc. are step specific.

For practice questions, don't your M2s give you a big download with all the old material?

 

[guitarguy23]

GT is basically just an Anki version of FA. The questions aren't written in the step format, so it's not really step specific. USMLERx, Kaplan Qbank, UWorld, etc. are step specific.

For practice questions, don't your M2s give you a big download with all the old material?

Haven't got that far yet our orientation starts tomorrow and class starts the week after. I'm guessing they will give me more materials.

 

[startswithb]

BRS books have good questions and those books should all be in your student library. I even used the questions in the back of the big biochem books.

 

[Charles_Carmichael]

For physio, I highly recommend Guyton and Hall Review of Physiology. It's an excellent question book with a ridiculous number of practice questions for every organ system. Really helped me drill down physio concepts and the answer explanations were really good. A good number of "arrow questions" too (which, based on reading around on the Step 1 forums, tend to come up on Step 1 as well).

For anatomy, the UMich anatomy website has a TON of free practice questions, which were awesome and focused on the important, clinically relevant (read: highly-tested) parts of anatomy. They worked great for our written exams and were especially clutch for the NBME exam!

For other courses, I just used what I could find in the back of their respective review books or just stuck with old practice exams.

Hope this helps.

 

[eablackwell]

I really like the pretest books. Maybe I'm just weird 😛

 

[NickNaylor]

I never used a question bank or any sort of practice questions other than old exams during the entirety of the year...

 

[ucladoc2b]

Agree with the BRS notion. Also Gray's Anatomy Review has tons of practice questions (my school doesn't provide any old tests, so these were pretty key).

 

[lacrosse87]

For physio, I highly recommend Guyton and Hall Review of Physiology. It's an excellent question book with a ridiculous number of practice questions for every organ system. Really helped me drill down physio concepts and the answer explanations were really good. A good number of "arrow questions" too (which, based on reading around on the Step 1 forums, tend to come up on Step 1 as well).

For anatomy, the UMich anatomy website has a TON of free practice questions, which were awesome and focused on the important, clinically relevant (read: highly-tested) parts of anatomy. They worked great for our written exams and were especially clutch for the NBME exam!

For other courses, I just used what I could find in the back of their respective review books or just stuck with old practice exams.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the UMich site 🙂

 

[guitarguy23]

For physio, I highly recommend Guyton and Hall Review of Physiology. It's an excellent question book with a ridiculous number of practice questions for every organ system. Really helped me drill down physio concepts and the answer explanations were really good. A good number of "arrow questions" too (which, based on reading around on the Step 1 forums, tend to come up on Step 1 as well).

For anatomy, the UMich anatomy website has a TON of free practice questions, which were awesome and focused on the important, clinically relevant (read: highly-tested) parts of anatomy. They worked great for our written exams and were especially clutch for the NBME exam!

For other courses, I just used what I could find in the back of their respective review books or just stuck with old practice exams.

Hope this helps.

Awesome, thanks! Thanks to everyone else too. I own a few BRS books but may get others.