noxar311
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this is just great!!!......i saw on my oasis account that my score had been reported to the ECFMG so after a couple of tens of minutes i decided to go for the oasis trick....and found out that I passed!!..this is so great....huuuuuge weight off me....
and i only studied for 3 months (8 hours/d/everyday) ..which to my understanding is quite short, for an IMG at least.
I wanna share my exam experience because this forum has given me so many things and tips and wise pieces of advise now I wanna give something back....
I started on may..i read FA in about 5 days..then moved.with anatomy...used UCV,HY
that took me about 2 or 3 days...then moved to patho..used Schwartz(BRS) and did all 37h Goljan audio...patho took like a week or so
then biochem..did HY (not a very good book for my taste)pharm i just overread the lippincot´s...to many charts..im not a chartguy....so....so far im really concerned about biochem and pharm but i remain cool...move to physio...read Costanzo´s (also BRS)..good book and then read micro...used MMRS..the best book ever!!...that´s pretty much all u need for micro on step 1...what a book!.. a month has passed now and now i move to the kaplan lectures (no beh sci so far)....i got like 150 hours of step 1 kaplan lectures and did like 6 hours a day for a month....those lectures are really worthy...very high yield....make u see the "meat" of the exam...... 4 weeks are before my scheduled day so i move to questions...about 300 questions (and explanations and reviewng in texts and all the show) daily for 3 weeks...u do the math..there´s more than 6000....i got like 1600 from the qbook...another 1500 from qbank and the rest from scattered files i´ve been picking up on the net...(i got em all...ill gladly share/trade for step2ck q´s) the q´s saved my life...the best thing you can do in the last phase of studying.. u just make sure u dont get automatized, think thru the question as you WILL get those questions in the test..just upside down.....finally I saw the lectures on Beh Sci and read the HY...i reccomend leaving BS to the last, since I find it very relaxing and even fun, plus thre are these "rules"u gotta have handy virtually in all BS q´s on the test..... i then stopped studying 2 days b4 the test
i took the test july 21st in el paso TX.. the first 2 blocks were very easy..lot of patho and simple physio . the third and 4th block all "tasted" like biochem..i got really nervous cos i know my weak side is biochem and pharm and those 2 blocks were filled with enzymes and "GGAATttAACGCGCG" stuff..but i guess i managed thru... about 2 beh sci questions per block...really easy questions noone should have a problen with bs....the pharm questions were no that hard..jus the usual side effects, no tricks...basi interactions and contraindications more than indications..do not go to the step one without knowing limb nerve injuries!!..u are most certainly to get at least 5 q´s on that and they are quite easy if u know the basics......i wish i could explain myself better or remember useful stuff.....all i can tell u is this....u study, u pass.. just make a commitment and learn to see what high yield is and what to dump..the FA gives u a pretty clear idea of what is HY and what is not..im so glad i found this page..here u guys told me what to do, what not to read, what to read...u were extremely helpful and now i hope i can be of help to any of you....
so..quick review on what worked for me (kaplan lectures for all subjects!!)
anatomy....... HY & UCV
patho........... BRS,Goljan audio
micro........... MMRS
pharm......... just the kaplan lectures (couldnt find a good book for me)
physio........ BRS
BS............. HY
biochem..... UCV
and LOTS AND LOTS OF Q´s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i did 48-58% on qbook
70% qbank
62% random "downloadable" files
68% usmle sample test (150q´s)
Edited by noxar311 on 04/15/06 - 02:49 PM
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| chemamr
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Congratulations again noxar311, mexican friend  !
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| drgaxmac
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congrats man!!!, you re on your way. I still have like 1 month and a half for my test. But enough about me.
Congratulations again, wish you the best. 
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| jvo_md
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first congratulations...YOU MADE IT!!!!...
And now...how can i get the Goljan audio?
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