njemt369
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Hey all... I took my exam and posted details about my score and NBMEs and MCAT scores etc... in the exam scores thread section...
My USMLE Score was 258/99
How did I prepare? I am a Ross Student and after the basic sciences we have to do a 12 week semester in Advanced intro to clinical med. While I was doing rotations, I went through all the material once.
I used BRS for Path, Lipincott biochem, Lipincott Pharm, High Yield Embryo, Anatomy, and Neuro, and BRS Behavioral and physio.
After the semester was over, I signed up for Kaplan Review (retreat course in Chicago) and studied through the Kaplan review books once before the course.
During the course, I took notes in class and after class transcribed the lectures and book material I thought was important into hand written notes (this was extremely time intensive)
After the class, I went through all the notes that I had made twice...
I also completed the Q bank two times... The first time through my scores ranged from 75 to 90 averaged 81... the second time through I averaged 92% (I highly recommend twice through Q bank... it is important to get a good idea on how they ask Qs...) The Questions on the USMLE were very VERY similar to the Q bank in difficulty... but there were some real easy Qs and some real hard Qs on the USMLE...
Kaplan Review as a course is AMAZING. The professors they have for you are nothing less than Outstanding!!! I will list the names of the profs I had, they were very good!!! Biochem Dr. Turco, Physio - Dr. Dunn, Micro - Dr. Dunn, Anatomy/Neuro/ Embryo - Dr White, Behavioral - Dr. Fadem, Pharm - Dr. Nora, Path - Dr. Goljan
I am not hired by Kaplan I just want to convey how much I think Kaplan helped!!! OK so when I finnished my basic sciences in Dominca from Ross, I took NBME form 1 (without preparing or studying... just to see where I stand) I got USMLE equivalent of 232... After Kaplan Review my NBME form 1 was Equivalent of 265 and form 2 was 257
If you have any questions for me please don't hesitate to ask.
BEST OF LUCK TO ALL!!!!
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| drizaad
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hi conngrats ....
am an IMG an like to ask that the teachers u told can v get the live lecture s or Cds of these ....and u told that kaplan help more so wat u say bout kaplan Patho as u say u did BRS and how to use golian books or just go with BRS.....as all tells that patho is major that patho n physiology cover avr more than 50% of papaer wat u say ........and wat u can told us bout the other subjects esp Immuno / pharma /antomy /beh/micro .....that how much one shud kno to master the exam ......thnax
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| dariush
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hey njemt369 Congrats . great score.
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| ssrpk
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congratulations 
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| robin082006
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excellent score, congratulations
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| njemt369
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Thank you... To answer your questions Drizaad, I used materials other than Kaplan's books to prepare prior tp signing up to the course, but after I had the materials I used their materials almost exclusively with the exception of Pathology... For Pathology I used Goljan's book which was an outstanding book! As far as the other subjects, I would pay close attention to the kaplan books, as they are very comprehensive for the exam. That is what I used anyway.
I do not have access to any Audio or video CD's of the lectures sorry...
I hope this helps... Best of luck preparing
Thank you very much for the kind words!
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