Should I be worried?

[Ioriscrub]

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Hi everyone. Hoping I can get some advice. So I got back a test result from my school and it was less than stellar, though I still passed I was pretty below average. I was surprised by this since I had been going through board review, GT, and Kaplan Qbank along with my lecture notes, and when I took the practice tests from those sources I did pretty well (I averaged about 70% on the Kaplan questions from the cardiovascular unit which we just tested on). So my question is since I do pretty well on kaplan and GT and just ok when it comes to my school exams, should I be worried for Step 1 next summer? I wanna know if anyone else has had similar experiences

 

[withrye]

What your classes want you to know and how they test you on that knowledge can be very different than what Step 1 wants you to know and how it tests you on that knowledge. That being said, you're in medical school and not USMLE Step 1 school, so don't feel like there's only one important bank of knowledge you need to know for your preclinical education.

 

[Ioriscrub]

Yea I get that. It's just that at times it feels almost like studying 2 separate curriculum between what 1st Aid/Board review emphasizes and what my school emphasizes. Theres a decent amount of overlap but there's a lot covered in 1st Aid that my school doesn't mention or glosses over and vice versa.