wamba
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hello docs I did my exam yesterday. The first 6 blocks were really easy. I just didn't expect to see such easy questions. I had many questions on histology, physiology, pharmacology and pathology. only few questions on biochemistry (mainly genetics) and neuroanatomy. as I said before, the questions were very simple, many were just one sentence. There might be some trick somewhere. I had many questions on the meccanism of action of vit K. the weird thing is there were many calculations that needed a calculator. At the last block, SURPRISE, the level of difficulty raised suddenly, as if they wanted to bring me back to the real world of step 1. The questions were long, with complicated calculations and of 50 of them, I just couldn't understand of them  . I really felt happy that it was the last block and I thought I had been lucky to get easy blocks before because, believe docs, that last block was incredible and getting seven blocks like that can crush everybody. In the same time, I feel that it can't be possible that the first 6 blocks were so easy. maybe this exam is really adaptative. maybe I will need at least 70% good answers to get a passing score.
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| robin082006
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THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCE, GOOD LUCK FOR YOUR SCORE
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| seri
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hey wamba, g/l for a great score.
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| vanshita
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GOOD LUCK for your score
thanx for sharing with us
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| luci
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thank you for sharing ! God help you!
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| luci
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thank you for sharing ! God help you!
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| farjoudi
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thank you for sharing !
please let me know about any question or topic you remmember.
thank you
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| doc179
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Good luck for your score and for the rest of the exams
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| drpkaur
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Wish u good luck for gr8 score n for ur next steps
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| img05
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congrats you are already done with ck with 98,so you will do well on step-1 too.good luck.how long did you prepare for step-1?
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| zenith
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congrats!! can you please share your prep experience with us? how long did u prepare - how many months? how many hours per day? were you working or studying full-time? what books did you read from?
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| wamba
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Tx guys
I prepared about 5 months, studying 6 to 8 hours a days. Sometimes more than that. I studied only Kaplan. I did not use goljan, neither the audio nor the textbook, I did not use FA or any other book because I think that using many sources makes confuse, is time consuming, and If you need to widen your knowledge, you just have to do many Qs. an average of 50 Qs every day for 3-4 months is more than enough. I used Q banq (very good), NMS and RRS. But most importantly, I did NBME form 1,2,3. Doing NBME is important to give you confidence when the exam date is incoming and you feel low. When this happened to me, I just remembered that ten days before, I was above 500 in NBME and this was for me a sort of anxiolytic. It helped very much.
Especially because at one point, I decided to not do any review of pathology. I know this will sound weird to many people here because patho is one of the most important field of this exam. But from the beginning of my prep, my record from Qbanq, NBME, NMS and RRS were always giving me good score, above 80%, without any prep. This is probably because I did step 2 before. You know, many vignette in step 2 give pathologic descriptions and I think remembering them helped me a lot. A simple exemple: the association between basophilic stippling and lead poisonning; One of my exam's question was: I man from Ohio has symptoms of pneumonia and in macrophages, you see hundreds of yeast. which of the following is the cause of the infection? (Histoplasma). I think if someone did a good prep of infectious disease, he can answer this Qs. The same applies for the microscopic aspects of the various types of glomerulonephritis. In step 2, many times, they give you the microscopic aspect and they ask you the diagnosis, in step 1, they give you the diagnosis and they ask you the microscopic aspect.
Anyway, I wouldn't advise to not review pathology if someone has already done step 2. Anyone has to do what he feels. The decision to skip it, in my case, has been very difficult. I sent some messages in the forum for advice because I didn't know what to do. My weak areas were behavioral science, pulm system and biochemistry, not pathology. And at the same time I couldn't digest goljan. I decided to skip patho only because on NBME my patho profile was always on the extreme right. And now I can say it was a good decision because it didn't hurt at the exam.
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| zenith
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wamba: Thank you for answering my questions. Wish you a rocking score on step-I.
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| ing
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thanks for sharing. best wishes!
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| HILFIGER
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Thanks for sharing, hope to hear from you when you get the score. Wish you all the best
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| Jinx
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there were many calculations that needed a calculator
i found this to be true with my exam too--there were complex calculations--which took time--in fact once it caused me to gat an Unauthorised break coz i took too much time!!!!
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