USMLEWorld for Rotations/Shelf

[Dr. Weebs]

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Has anyone used USMLEWorld Step 2CK QBank for Shelf exams? I've heard they are good, but would you just use it again for final Step 2 prep and do the questions a second time? It's a bit expensive to buy for the year, and I'm about to start 3rd year so I'm trying to get some experienced opinions. Thanks for any help you can offer.

 

[blz]

Has anyone used USMLEWorld Step 2CK QBank for Shelf exams? I've heard they are good, but would you just use it again for final Step 2 prep and do the questions a second time? It's a bit expensive to buy for the year, and I'm about to start 3rd year so I'm trying to get some experienced opinions. Thanks for any help you can offer.

I think its best to just refer to the threads about each individual shelf exam. People have already found proven study regimens to hit 90+ on the shelves. I would rather save my USMLEworld stuff for step 2.

 

[joe6102]

I don't care about step 2 so I'm using usmleworld for the shelf exams. I'll take step 2 after the match so I just have to pass. I'll spend $40 to take one of the online self-assessments to make sure I'm not going to fail. That said, the only shelf exams it really helped me with were medicine and neuro. The vast majority of questions in the qbank are medicine questions anyway.

Decide what you want to score highest on, the medicine shelf or step 2. If it is the medicine shelf, use the best resources available, and the best qbank in my opinion is usmleworld. If your goal is to crush step 2, use other questions/books for the medicine shelf and then save usmleworld for step 2.

 

[JohnnieBlue]

I used Step 2 USMLEWorld before my surg shelf. The ortho questions from USMLEW were too detailed, but there were like 5-10 questions that I found almost word for word on the actual shelf. Definately worth the money and trime investment.

 

[EternalMD]

After using USMLEWORLD's surgery questions, I realized that it was too ortho heavy which is not a good representation of the real exam whatsoever. There were a few questions that were helpful for the shelf but you have to realize that the Surgery shelf is not like most other shelves. I was told that it's a medicine shelf which I don't agree with either. After taking it, I think it was a mixed bag of just about everything - Medicine, Peds, Ob/Gyn, Psych (yes, I had a question about how I would manage a case ethically). Common sense also went a long way on this exam. It helped that surgery was my 2nd to last rotation so I wasn't as baffled as others might have been but it was still a tough exam.

sorry for the side tracking regarding surgery. As for other rotations, I haven't used USMLEWORLD however know of quite a few other students who have and love it. For Ob/Gyn, the UWISE questions are more representative of the actual exam IMO. At the end of the day, UW is probably a better question bank for any rotation compared to books like pre-test and what not.

 

[vtucci]

I have used USMLEWORLD for my shelf exams and have found them to be quite helpful.

With respect to my surgery shelf, we had a good deal of ortho on it-- much more than any other subspecialty so I think it depends on the administration of the exam.