Time it takes for UW CCS and MCQ's

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Hi, I am going to have only late night hours to prepare for step 3. Can anyone give me an idea (broad idea is fine) how long it will take to do
1) the 52 UW CCS cases plus it seems 41 case management read outs and 2) how long to do the UW MCQ's (also of step 3)? I know from experience that the time the forum users estimated it took for step 1 and step 2 UW questions was pretty accurate. I need to do some cost and time effective planning....
Thanks for your advice.

 

[Law2Doc]

Hi, I am going to have only late night hours to prepare for step 3. Can anyone give me an idea (broad idea is fine) how long it will take to do
1) the 52 UW CCS cases plus it seems 41 case management read outs and 2) how long to do the UW MCQ's (also of step 3)? I know from experience that the time the forum users estimated it took for step 1 and step 2 UW questions was pretty accurate. I need to do some cost and time effective planning....
Thanks for your advice.

I don't think it does you much good to estimate like this, and everyone is going to be drastically different, and will depend on how much they use tutor mode, etc. Just spend whatever spare time you have between now and the exam doing a lot of problems and a few cases each time. Do some focusing on getting through a block of problems fast, as well as in tutor mode, because time management is a premium on the test. However much you get through by test time is what you get through. Most people who take it are in the midst of intern year of residency, and are going to squeeze a handful of problems in here and there whenever they have time in the midst of their otherwise time deprived life, usually over the course of about a month. You do what you can do. If you can get through all the problems, great. But more important is to learn from them, not simply plod through them. So this is going to take people different amounts of time because people learn/refresh very differently.

 

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Hey,

From what I remember, there are about 1500 MCQ's; if you divide them into 48 question blocks, that gives you about 31-32 tests; if you spend time reading and studying the explanations, I would say block off between 35 and 45 hours depending on how fast you go through the explanations.

For the CCS cases, I would block off between 12 and 15 hours if you want to do them + study explanations.

Now, I never finished the MCQs, and I did only 10 CCS cases in earnest and read through the rest; and it seems that some people elect to do all questions, but a larger number of people (compared to Step 1 and Step 2) quit UW before finishing it and pass the exam anyway (internship prepares you somewhat for the exam).

Good luck!

 

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Thank you to the two replies. Both helped, the first mainly in encouraging me to do it in the short blocks I get to study in (as most others do) and the second person, to help me plan how many evenings at 2-3 hours a night I would need to set aside. I wish you well in your medical career.