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thanx Jsmart, really appreciate it!!!!!!!11
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Man, i am kinda upset tocday, i started reading immuno in the kaplan, and this is the new kaplan book where they have completely changed the immuno section, and I DID NOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING THEY WERE SAYING. I liked the old kaplan books immuno a lot better, but after reading about the first six chapters in it, i gave up and just did the questions at end of hte chapters for the rest of the immuno part. I was really depressed at the end of hte day, cuz i felt like my day was wasted, dont know what to do, i mean those quetions i did for immuno i got most of them right. Do you guys think they'll get that pickey on immuno on the step cuz some of that stuff that kaplan asks is just rediculous. Any suggestions anyone.???? I think now i'll do some qbank and then before going to bed, will listen to papi....... :o(
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| sar
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Do questions from q-bank on immuno with explanation, and take notes. It will help. Then see kap notes and FA.
Good lcuk! :icon_thumb:
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| josh2004
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Even i feel do some questions ,read the answers with explainations clearly.
This will give you brief idea where to focus.
Then do it with FA and kaplan combination.
Good luck MLF!!!
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Thanx sar and josh for the advice. I ended up actually going thru jawetz immuno part only and then did some qbank questions and i felt a lot better after that. I will go thru FA also now. Today, I plan to do pharm first Aid for about three hours and then Behavioral from BRS for another three hours. Atleast behavioral reading is easy reading whereas pharm is just too boring. But gotta memrozie the adrenergics and cholinvergics, my worst ones, and will practice some graph questions from qbank, you gotta know those guys, i had like maybe 2 in every block on my test. So this time, i plan to nail the graph questions.
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Had a good weekend. I went through the entire immuno section In first Aid, and then did qbook questions and when i finally felt better about immuno, did some pharm in FA as well, but didn't do it thoroughly. So now that i am done listening to goljan, i will start tomorrow with pharm and then behavioral, and restart goljan. Also have to continue doing qbank questions. I have 900 more to go, so now will pick up the amount of questions by doing more than just 50 or 100, so can get used to doing a lot of questions.
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Well yesterday i felt better about doing qbank. This weekend's studying really paid off, cuz my score in qbank in two random 50 question sets was 66% and 72% which is my highest so far. I hope i can keep it this way. I did antimicrobials yestereday and two chapters of behavioral BRS. Today, will do adrenergics/cholinergics and then atleast 4 or 5 chapters of BRS behavioral and then qbank tonite.
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| bm
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keep going mlf!  so when's your test?
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Actually bm, i am gonna take the nbme this weekend and see what my score is and then based on that, will choose my test date. Lets just pray that everything goes well.......Good luck to you as well!!
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Well been doing qbank and so far hte score is in upper sixties to seventies, lets just hope it stays that way or better yet, improves more. Finshed all of pharm FA yesterday and where didn't understand, read in katzung and took notes on FA. It helped a lot doing that. Today been reading behavioral BRS, just finished six chapters, i like how its brief and to the point. Writing down important info from it either in FA or in my own notes to review later. Plan to finish as much of BRS today as possible, hopefully the whole thing. Tomorrow, will review stat with a friend, along with some pharm drugs, path, and also biochem important pathways. Its been so long since i did biochem, better start reviewing it otherwise will start forgetting it again. Neways, will finish off my day with goljan and qbank. Listening to goljan now for the second time. Have to have to absolutely have to take NBME by this weekend. Lets see how that will go, God help me!! [-o<
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Well had a busy weekend, got to review FA biochem, finished behavioral and the questions for it in qbook, and also reviewed path and some pictures in robbins. But didn't get to do nbme, i chickened out because after doing some qbank, i saw that my score in path was falling so figured i need to review it real quick one more time and then will take it. Still unsure about my exam date, but thinking about october 14th. Lets see. Neways, rite now reading path BRS again and writing important stuff in FA. Once i finish path BRS, then i guess will take nbme and see where i stand. Have to finish qbank also so can restart it. Ok back to work!!!
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Ok, i took the nbme, and got a 510, which really boosted me up, cuz I really didn't expect that score AT ALL. What do you guys think, do you think i am ready to take the step. I mean is this really a good measure of my score on step 1. I am just really scared but at the same time, feel a little satisfied with my studying. I am rereading path BRS rite now, and then almost done with qbank, i am thinking of selecting oct 10 as the date. Not sure tho, but any feedback from you guys would really help. Ok guys, i think i'll go take a break now cuz just finished nbme, and will come back and finish off the BRS path
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Hi MLF!
Remember me..........it's ELM.....haven't visited step 1 forum long time......was just looking through today and saw your dairy........your NBME score is awesome! I am pretty sure that you are ready to do good! But it depends what score you want to get! Right now with that score you are definatly pass with good score............but it doesn't promiss 99! If you are going for 99 slow down and think again! I wish you very best luck whatever you deside to do! :P
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Hi ELM, yea i definetely remember you. Thank you for your suggestion, i really appreciate it. I am not actually aiming for 99, i just wanna pass with a decent score. I mean of course i wouldn't mind a 99 you know. But before taking my exam, I do plan to finish qbank for a second time, goljan for a second time and writt now i am reading all the stuff againf ro the third time, but i am not reading all the kaplan books and brs's and high yield's again because I took my own notes from all those subjects when i was doing my reading so I am reading my own notes, and when i get stuck, i go back and look at those books. So far its working. Again thanx for the advice ELM. Wish you all the best with step 2.
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well, now I am just reviewing everything, after finish path BRS three times, figured should start reviewing other subjects also, so my FA review has started. Will do biochem today with physio. Qbank is finished, so i think nowi 'll go over all the questions tha ti got incorreect to master them. Biochem really is boring, but gota get back to it, cuz i feel like i have forgotten everything. Ok back to work!!!
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Wow, its been a while since i wrote in my diary, how bad, i was neglecting it for such a long time, just been bush with different stuff and studying, and i plan to take my exam in another week or two because i am to the point where i wanna get it over with. I took the blackwell and got a 70% adn then did kaplan simulated, half tired, and got a 64%, dont know if thats good or bad. I am so drained from all this but haven't reivewed like anatomy, biochem and micro which i need to. So plan for the incoming week,
After reading FA pharm, will do cardio, respir, renal and endorcine from BRS physio, then will read thru my own goljan notes that I tooki on teh audioi TWICE atleast, and then One read of Path BRS and take nbme 2, and with God behind me, take the exam. Pray for me guys, I really need to pass this exam.........
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| lmbebo
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good luck!
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its good to see that you are back with ur dairy .dont worry you will do good.
GOOD LUCK FOR YOUR EXAM!!!! :lol: :lol:
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| niti
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Hi MLF,
Your diary has been source of my inspiration.You are really doing well...and your score is pretty good...but,in fact I don't know its correlation with real score...Keep in touch with your diary..
keep up
You will do great in exam.
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Thank you so much guys, I really appreciate the kind words. Niti and Kiranadi, I have folllowed your diaries as well,and have faith that you guys will do great, and also imbebo. All the best everyone!!
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hey MLF
can you plz provide me the correlation between blacwells scores and the real exam or Q-bank
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Hey kiranadi,
I wish I had the answer to your question, but i roughly just compared with people who already took their test and posted their scoes on various exams in the exam score thread. I was told by some friends tho that if you get above 60% on the qbank simulated, thats pretty good, because the exam is much harder than the actual step. Since i have taken the step already once, I can tell you that my step wasn't as detailed as the kaplan simulated, but it helps to learn the concepts and stuff so thats why i did it. Same for blackswell, it seems people who passed the step were getting above 65% on that exam. Hope this helps you, all the best.
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thank you very much MLF.
goodluck for ur exam!!!!when is your exam?
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| merijung
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Hi MLF
Your diary is very helpful.In these days,are you revising whole course or you are doing questions only?When is your final day of exam?
Regards
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| MLF
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Thanx guys.
Kiranadi, I plan to take my exam this month, i have yet to choose a date, but i have called the test center and they said as long as i do it two days before atleast, i should be fine, so i am guessing as of now, probably nov 15th. Wish you all the best.
Merijung, i have been doing FA for as long as I can remember because everything i studied from the beginning, the important stuff and the stuff i didnt know from qbank, i wrote in my FA. It prob has more of my writing than the actual authors. But that helps me a lot. Also when i listened to goljan lectures, i'd take notes in my FA, and i have my own notes prepared for him that I still have to look over. I have been skimming them every now and then. I finished qbank, my qbank is finished already, i did it twice, and now, i will do the USMLE CD, and plan to take the second nbme form a few days before my test. Wish you all the best as well.
take care guys
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