step 1 prep, mainly question learning?

[anbuitachi]

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Is step 1 prep mostly just learning from questions? Since people keep saying do questions and read explanation. I'm wondering then will the step 1 questions be similar content to the uworld qbank? I'm going thru first aid, but im finding it impossible to memorize everything.. theres just too much detail. just all the side effects alone to drugs is killing me, especially after doing a lot of drugs and there are multiple drugs w/ overlapping side effects and it gets super confusing to recall whats what.

so i'm wondering if qbank should be the #1 focus? And just studying qbank will prob net around a 227? [step 1 national avg]

 

[Jamiu22]

Is step 1 prep mostly just learning from questions? Since people keep saying do questions and read explanation. I'm wondering then will the step 1 questions be similar content to the uworld qbank? I'm going thru first aid, but im finding it impossible to memorize everything.. theres just too much detail. just all the side effects alone to drugs is killing me, especially after doing a lot of drugs and there are multiple drugs w/ overlapping side effects and it gets super confusing to recall whats what.

so i'm wondering if qbank should be the #1 focus? And just studying qbank will prob net around a 227? [step 1 national avg]

Yes, it's nearly impossible to get everything from FA if you don't supplement it with questions... they help in highlighting deficiencies... it forces you to read it in more details, when you see that you keep missing stuff you read, but simply just glanced over.

Also if you do over 4000-5000 questions, there would be a lot of questions on the actual step that would just seem familiar (since you've seen them in a variation somewhere)... at least that's what I tell myself.

Also repetition helps with retention... I try not to get down on myself when I read FA, and realize I didn't get out of it as much as I wanted.... I know there's still going to be another pass... that keeps me moving on.