Step I Uworld anxiety. advice needed please.

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I am currently at a carribean medical school, and am planning for step 1. I bought a year long subscription to uworld, and am concerned with how I am doing based on doing some path uworld questions.

I am done with Path I (which covered inflammation, circulatory pathology, vascular pathology, heart, environmental, pediatric, RBC, WBC), neuro, microbio/immuno, physiology, biochem, anatomy, and histology.

I will be doing Path II (the rest of path) and pharm next semester. I will be done in August.

I have throughout my time so far in medical school Kaplan Lecture Notes, and Kaplan MedEssentials, and Kaplan Medessentials is my primary book because of my familiarity with it.

Then between August and December, through the school I will be doing an intro to clinical skills and USMLE review.

My goal is to have a solid understanding of everything by August, as well as having annotated all of uworld by August so I can spend between August and December reviewing Kaplan Medessentials and my uworld annotations, and then going through Uworld at least 2 times as well as picking up another qbank such as Kaplan and doing First Aid Q and A book.

My question is that if I know ALL of Uworld, and Kaplan Medessentials can I be quite sure that I will pass USMLE Step 1?

Also I am concerned with my uworld performance so far. I have finished cardio pathology, and know everything in Pathoma Cardio Lecture Notes, yet when I do Uworld cardio path questions, I am not doing well at all. After I am shown the answer, I completely understand it and all the other answer choices (as well as learning some new tidbits), and annotating it for future reference. However, what is concerning to me is that I am not getting the answer right the first time. So should I be concerned that I cannot answer the questions right the first time, even though I know that I learned and understood everything till now in Pathoma? And again, if I review all my annotations and know Kaplan Medessentials cold, can I be nearly sure that I will pass Step 1 at a minimum?
 
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thank you. so I just want to make sure that will I pass the USMLE if I know all of Uworld and all the info in there, as well as all the info in Kaplan Medessentials? (basically I compared kaplan medessentials to first aid and its the same thing.. just kaplan's version of first aid. i prefer this book over first aid given my primary books being the kaplan lecture notes which are all summed up nicely in this one book)
 
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If you can recall the information fine, then you probably just need to get used to the question style. The battle is in identifying what concept/disease they're asking you about and shifting through your mental rolodex of medical facts to the right card.
 
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just factually- if I know all the facts in uworld and kaplan medessentials, can I pass USMLE Step 1? As I said, I plan to finish annotating uworld by August, and will then review all these annotations and further just keep reviewing kaplan medessentials from august to december. i plan to take step 1 next year (2015) end of February.

Right now more than worrying about how poorly i am doing on uworld, my goal is to go through the questions once, and have it all annotated in my book since it will be easier to review it that way.

I was also thinking of doing Kaplan Qbook, First Aid Q and A book, and NMS USMLE Step 1 Question book in addition. I will not annotate from these sources but rather just use as practice questions and keep moving on. I will also do the NBME's Basic Science Comprehensive shelfs available.

I'm just very worried about failing step 1, and want to know that if I know every fact in uworld and kaplan medessentials, would that be enough? thank you
 
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You sound like an anxious immigrant medical student, and I bet you are.. You should just chill dude. You have plenty of time. You are starting to do UWorld when your exam is NEXT YEAR. I began Uworld 2 weeks ago and my exam is at the end of this month! Chill. Just study.
 
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