This is not a troll post. Long time lurker, first time poster.
As an IMG coming straight from high school currently studying in India, the educational system here does not at all prepare you for doing well on the USMLE. I wanted to ask those (US medical students) that are currently preparing and/or have recently taken it two questions:
1)How long do you think it would take a person with no basic science background to score a 90+ on Step I without taking Kaplan courses?
2)Assuming one doesn't read all of the "mandatory" books in the curriculum (Big Robbins, Guyton) is it possible to realistically expect anywhere near this range of score by just memorizing/repeating FA, HY, Goljian and doing 10,000 Questions in addition to UWorld and Qbank?
As an IMG coming straight from high school currently studying in India, the educational system here does not at all prepare you for doing well on the USMLE. I wanted to ask those (US medical students) that are currently preparing and/or have recently taken it two questions:
1)How long do you think it would take a person with no basic science background to score a 90+ on Step I without taking Kaplan courses?
2)Assuming one doesn't read all of the "mandatory" books in the curriculum (Big Robbins, Guyton) is it possible to realistically expect anywhere near this range of score by just memorizing/repeating FA, HY, Goljian and doing 10,000 Questions in addition to UWorld and Qbank?