BOTH When should I postpone my exams to?

[Smiths11]

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I am scheduled to take Step 1 in 6 days and am nowhere near prepared, and today is the last day I can postpone before it becomes more expensive to do so. I also have to schedule my COMLEX. I have already switched my rotations so that I can have July off and will be starting in IM in August.

I've been studying for about 5 weeks and am experiencing burnout already, so I am in a dilemma - don't want to postpone it for too soon otherwise I won't be prepared and don't want to postpone it for too late otherwise I'm afraid of becoming completely jaded and burned out even more. I have to take July 17 and 18th off for a friend's wedding.

Sources:
1) UWORLD: 66% left of first pass, but can't get more than 40-50% on average. Would like to go through it twice before taking the exam.
2) COMBANK which I have barely touched.
3) First Aid, Pathoma videos, DIT videos, and Kaplan videos on an as needed basis.

Weaknesses: Everything, but more so Anatomy, Embryology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pharmacology

Option 1: Postpone to July 16th for Step 1 and maybe July 22nd or so for COMLEX.
Option 2: Postpone to July 27th for Step 1 and July 29th for COMLEX

I would like to score a 230-240 ideally.

Would love to hear your advice on a) when should I postpone until and b) how should I study going forward

Please help as I'm really worried. Honesty is appreciated but rudeness is not. Thanks.

 

[Smiths11]

Bump - any advice is appreciated. Really worried.

 

[Pisiform]

Drop the step1. Concentrate only on COMLEX. Start with high yield topics - neuro, micro, pharm, repro, cardio, omm .... And do lots of questions and go over mistakes

If you really wanna take usmle, take an NBME and see how you do it. Also take a Comsae to gauge where you are now

 

[nds86]

Sources:
1) UWORLD: 66% left of first pass, but can't get more than 40-50% on average. Would like to go through it twice before taking the exam.
2) COMBANK which I have barely touched.
3) First Aid, Pathoma videos, DIT videos, and Kaplan videos on an as needed basis.

Weaknesses: Everything, but more so Anatomy, Embryology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pharmacology

Option 1: Postpone to July 16th for Step 1 and maybe July 22nd or so for COMLEX.
Option 2: Postpone to July 27th for Step 1 and July 29th for COMLEX.

Have you taken any self-assessment from NBME or UW yet? If you haven't, you should take an NBME first, after that, choosing one of your options will depend solely on your score.