Jags11MD
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Exam date: July 2, 2007
Score Reported: July 25th, 2007
Score Received: July 31, 2007
Step 2 CK score: 255/99
Kaplan Q-bank: 77%
Kaplan Simulated 71% (4 weeks before)
USMLE World: 67%
NBME 1: 640 (247)- 3 weeks before
NBME 2: 620 (243)- 2 weeks before
NBME 3: 640 (247)- 1 week before
Completed Mock Exam before real studying, quick review
Used Kaplan videos, notes, Goljan Step 1 and Step 2 lectures (listened to them all again) and Step 2 Secrets. My 3rd year second semester was scheduled for board studying, 8 weeks of Surgery, 8 weeks of Internal Medicine, and 4 weeks of Psych, then a month to study for Step 2. I watched the corresponding Kaplan videos during each block and read the corresponding book (rocked shelf exams) and just blazed thru the Ob/Gyn, Peds, and Biostats during the 4 week vacation. I also re-read the IM, Surgery, and Psych books as well. I easily read Mock exam in 3 days before starting all of this. I listened to two Goljan lectures a night before bed just to chill and easily got thru all the Step 1 and Step 2 lectures (they were a fantastic review of pathophysiology without having to read anything else). Then read Step 2 secrets in 2 days the week of the exam. I was lazily going thru Q-bank during this whole time when I needed a break, just doing 1-2 question sets per sitting because they are just rediculous in length. When I did USMLE World, I was completing 8 tests per day, in test style format just to get used to it, scores were never that great and I really just skimmed some of the answers because many were repeated verbatim. The NBME tests were really great, they give you a true sense of where you stand for sure, at least they have for me on both Step 1 and 2
Real exam was mostly Medicine, with weird Psych questions with no real answer and scattered Peds and Ob, two biostats questions
Did not use First Aid (I can't stand mneumonics, I had no idea what some of those things were even about, more useless memorization)- yes, you can do well without using First Safe
Good luck and Get THICK
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| arlete
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Congrats!
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| veroni14
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Congrats
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| Hotobhaga
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Fantastic score.... Congrats
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| hanwin
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Congrats.
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| HILFIGER
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Congratulations!
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| rody
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congratulation....u think its imp to listen to golganstep2 lectures??????
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| gr8doc
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Congrats.. Its just a great score. Goodluck for your match.
Can someone please tell me about the Goljan step 2 notes/audios/videos.
Are they different from step 1 ?
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| dr_comet
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many congratulations!!!!can u pz tell us where from to down load goljan step2 lectures??and which subject lectures do u think are must??ive got only goljan medicine .....thanx and good luck 4 the next one...
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| bhanusupriya
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congrats dude.listening to goljan lectures is a great idea.thanks for ur input.good luck for the match
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| Jags11MD
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Thanks for all the congratulations, I feel that the Goljan lectures are just money. I thought they were for Step 1 and so I definitely wanted to listen to them for Step 2. It's true that the Goljan lectures for Step 2 are a poorer sound quality and there aren't as many as there are for Step 1 but I found them on a random CD that I had so I decided to listen to them but, listening to the Step 1 lectures would probably be more than enough. I just used the lectures as a way to escape reading for a few hours either while I was outside at the pool or just before going to bed and I thought it was a fantastic review of much of the pathophysiology I was asked on the exam because a lot fo that isn't covered in the Kaplan books or any of ther other sources I used (on a side note, how rediculously action packed are the Kaplan books with useless information for Step 2, the medicine book in particular, there was just so much random stuff, looking back, I definitely would have just skimmed them again instead of forcing myself to read them all over again). As far as I know, there aren't any coresponding notes for the Step 2 lectures. In the lectures I had, he concentrated a lot on biostats and acid-base/ABG/renal compensation stuff, so if that's a weak point for you I definitely recommend them. Other than that, I feel I got at least 10-15 random questions on either vitamin stuff or random path stuff on Step 2 by having listened to all of those again. Take it as you may, good luck and thanks again
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| gr8doc
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Thanks buddy, its really helpful.
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| rezaaa
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great work man. btw where r u from plz ? do u think kaplan books + usmleworld, qbook and step 2 mock exam is enough to get a good score?
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| gr8doc
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hey, everyone keeps on talking about the step 2 mock exam. can someone please throw some light on what it is? is it the NBME everyone is talking about ?
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| dr_comet
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i repeat!!if theres any site for goljan atep 2 audios to down load??? or jst listening step 1 patho is more than anough!!!!!!????thanx alot for ur time...and GL for the next one.
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| Jags11MD
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gr8doc, Mock exam is just a question book put out by Brochert and the questions are really short and painless but again it is a good review just to get some questions under your belt and knock loose some of the topics that you already know. Again, it was my poolside/lie around the house type question book, it was just nice to blaze though it when I didn't want to do anything else, but it really isn't a necessity, just like NMS isn't really a necessity in my eyes (neither are ANY of the Pre-tests, which I thought about doing but didn't do thankfully). Dr_comet, Step 2 lectures for Goljan are pretty lame, and there is alot of audio problems and repeated lectures but I forced myself to listen to them (because I really believe in the Goljan lectures and thought they were awesome for Step 1), I'm sure you could get them on e-bay for a dollar like everyone sells them for, I would send them if I knew a way how. But like I said, the Step 1 lectures cover most of the things he goes over in the Step 2 lectures, just lacking Ob and peds, he even mentions that the lectures are good for all steps multiple times in the audio. Rezaaa, I think USMLE World, the Kaplan books, and reading Step 2 Secrets is all you really have to do. Q-bank is kind of a mystery and the passages are rediculously long and take you through the patient's entire medical record, UW is most like the exam questions in length but the actual test was much easier in my eyes (my test was almost exactly the same as arlete's exam). I wouldn't waste you time with Q-book, I would just do the blocks that you feel you need work with (ie. like Peds tests or Psych, etc, whatever) if you don't want to buy Q-bank. By the way, I am from Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA. Have fun and thanks.
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| izn
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hi Jags11MD,
congrats and thanks alot for all the info.....
i also thought that i will listen to step"1" Goljan again.....
but now i am bit confused about Goljan step"2" lectures bcz i thought i will not listen to them as they have bad audio and even more disturbing is that, it has no start, no end......
can you plz specify which lectures out of Goljan Step"2" are for Ob and peads so that i just do those.....if you can, plz just give me the file names of his step2 lectures which you think will be useful for step2 exam...
thanks again
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| Jags11MD
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Goljan Step 2 lectures unfortunately aren't as delinieated as the Step 1 lectures as far as title and content, they were poorly recorded, some of them were repeated, and I feel that some topics were lacking. There were random bits of Peds an Ob/Gyn just shuffled into random lectures and it was hard to follow at times so unfortunately I can't give a specific number that included these topics. Again, realistically they were the same as the Step 1 lectures just wiht a little more concentration on acid-base and small bits of Peds and Ob. I wouldn't stress about trying to listen to them, just concentrate on the Step 1 lectures if you could fit them in. I had a lot of Heme/Onc on my test and listening to the 8 heme lectures for Step 1 were really helpful. Hope it helps....
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| izn
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thanks alot....
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| rezaaa
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great information jags well done
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| bhanusupriya
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thanx jags
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