Some honest suggestions needed

[Red15]

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Hello!

I've just gotten done with my basic sciences and taking some time off to prepare for the exam. I'd really appreciate if some of you who have already taken Step 1 can kindly suggest some of the most important rescources to study from. My aim is to do fairly well on it just like any other medical student. 🙂

What I am planning to do is:

Re-watch Kaplan videos + go over lecture notes along with FA

I plan to do this for each course in four months.
Then FA x 2 watching DIT
Then take one of the review courses to see where I really stand.
While I do all of this, I plan on practising questions from UW.

However, I am really overwhelmed after studying today as it is taking a lot of time to watch videos and reading Kaplan LN afterwards. I know it's just the first day after two weeks break but I've already started wondering if my plan is realistic enough to do well or I've already set my goal to fail it. Please guide me.
Thanks.

 

[pianoguy05]

Wow...that is a lot of prep for Step 1 that you've listed. I'd pick one - Kaplan or DIT or neither - and stick with that...

I took 6 weeks to study for Step 1 (I'm an average med student...not top of my class) and I'd say that was too long. By week 6, I'd forgotten stuff from week 1. My plan was FA + UW questions, +neuro review plates. Didn't do Kaplan or DIT, and managed to score well above the national average (and about 20 points higher than I thought I would).

Unless you're IMG and have some language issues or something, I wouldn't recommend 4 months. I wouldn't recommend 4 different (and rather expensive) study guides. I'd figure out a system (that should include FA) and stick with that.

All of that said, if your'e shooting for a 299, I'm not the person to listen to on this subject.