AnneGermany
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Hi everybody!
Just got home from my step 1. It was exhausting! I´m really happy that it´s over.
Have to say that it was a lot harder than I thought. It really was the level of USMLEWorld.
The PROMETRIC- Test Center was excellent, the staff was helpful, funny and really nice. It was clean, modern and very quiet.
Now I will take my long awaited nap and will pray for my score.
Good luck to everybody! The feeling that it´s over is just too good!
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| JavMD
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Congratulations Anne.
Im sure you will have a great score.
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| hiprized
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congrats Anne . i bet it feels pretty good to get it over with. what was your UW average? and did you take any NBMEs.
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| step99
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Great, now you are done Anne.
good luck for your score. mm..i have another 12 days to go..
cant wait to finish it..
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| yarab99
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gooooooooooooooood luck
have 12 days tooo and finish,,,hope we allllll do goooooood
good luck Anne and step99
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| AnneGermany
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Hi guys,
sincere thanks for your nice words. I´m so glad it´s over!
I hope all of you who have the test coming up make the most of the time before it. Don´t read any new stuff. Just repeat, repeat, repeat. And if you can, do some UW questions. My test was very similar, not to the UW questions but to the style and level of the UW questions.
Now good luck to everybody!
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| paheli
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All the best for your score, Anne. That's the exact same feeling I had. That it was as hard as UW, NOT easier as I had hoped.
Sleep tight!
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| doc.sweden
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hi Anne
I was thinking of you. Wow girl be happy it's over now..Mine is 3 rd April and I'm sick and tired of step 1...Right now I'm doing only marked and wrong answeres in UW and read my kaplan books and FA...what do you think??? When I'm really tired I listen to Goljan audio..he's great...Did you read his notes??? what study material did you have???
As I told you my exam is april 3rd and on April 7th my CK live lectures in LA starts....It's a tight schedual but I hope I'll make it.
I hope you'll score 99...thanks for your support ANNE
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| AnneGermany
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Hi everybody,
will post my prep time and material another time. Thought, I would first wait for my score.
Here is what I wanna post about my exam:
High yield:
Patho (every organ system), Physio, Oncology, Molecular and Genetics, a lot of questions where I first thought "WHAT????" but at the end the real thing they asked about was quite simple. I think with those questions you really have to prove calmness and good nerves.
Low yield:
Embryology, Anatomy
Be aware: Others say other things about their exams. A lot of people posted, that embryology was high yield in their exam.
My questions resembled the style of UW. Kaplan is good for memorization but I really recommend to totally focus on UW the last weeks before the exam. It just trains you well in thinking in several steps.
The day was hard and I was totally spent for a couple of days.
Have a good night sleep the night before and take some sandwiches, fruit or chocolate with you. This really pushes you when you think that you can´t go on.
Will post my score here, still waiting nervously.
Good luck to everybody and God bless.
Anne
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| sidiyaa
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plz which materials do you prefer for anatomy, kalan or HY?
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| AnneGermany
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Hi sidiyaa,
only did FA. Don´t know anything about the other materials.
Sorry....
Good luck to you!
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| sidiyaa
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Hi AnneGermany
goood luck were are waiting for your 99 score............you can simply get it
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| luck08
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Good luck with your score. did you do Kaplannotes?
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| AnneGermany
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Hi everybody,
Now about my background, preparation time and scores:
I´m a 2007 graduate from Germany.
Prep time: Jan 7th until March 12th, studied about 6-9 hours every day, there were about 7 or 8 days where I didn´t study at all (had pneumonia, bad, bad, bad....)
I have to say, due to my short schedule, I was really focused from the very beginning. There was basically nothing else but studying for me for these two months.
Material:
First Aid, First Aid cases and First Aid Q & A (loooove those books),
Kaplan QBank, USMLEWorld, USMLE free practice test.
Read all FA-books from cover to cover. Did a chapter in FA, then read the corresponding cases and the answered the corresponding questions in FA Q & A.
This all for one month.
Then started Kaplan QBank and USMLEWorld. In USMLE World I did all questions (2034), Kaplan about 1500. I read almost all comments, mostly those of the questions that I got wrong but also the ones I had right. I left out comments of questions where the answer was totally clear to me to save time on my tight schedule.
Scores:
USMLEWorld: 60%
Kaplan QBank: 75%
USMLE free practice test: 80%
FA Q & A: About 75%
Got my USMLE exam score today (about 9:15 am):
233/97
And: I am MORE than HAPPY! yippiiiyaiyeeeeh
Thanks to everybody for your support, you all really helped me a lot through this hard time.
Please ask me questions if you have some and best of luck to everybody for your preparation and exam. You really can rock it!
God bless,
Anne
MOD EDIT: The threads have been merged.
Edited by new_n_lost on 04/02/08 - 10:43 PM. Reason: The threads have been merged.
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| vasorum
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congrats. for that great score...
60% on uw was first time unused or overall?
good luck on step 2....
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| AnneGermany
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Hi vasorum,
60% was overall. I started with around 48% but pretty quickly I got used to the style of the questions. So I was up to 60 or even 72 quickly. But overall the 60% was pretty consistent.
Good luck to you!
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| AnneGermany
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...oh, but everything was unused. I did them only once.
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| bhanusupriya
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hi anne,
congrats on your success...
my question is....how didi u manage to read 8-9 hrs daily ...continuously for 2 months..?
the problem i'm facing now is...if i sit and read continuously for 5-6 days ,then i get exhausted...doen't want to read...get bored...and then i'll take break...then,to come to same pace it takes 3-4 days...same cycle repeats after 2-3 days...how to manage this problem? please suggest me how u manged to sit for loooong hours...this habit is really killing me.... 
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| zainy
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congrats Anne,
gr8 score, all the best for next steps.
i wrote my exam march 19th, waiting for score, since then wrong anwers are chasing me, lets c how it turns out.
any way congrats again,
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| AnneGermany
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Hi!
@ bhanusupriya: I totally understand where you´re coming from. It IS hard to do that. Let me see: sat down at 10 am after having a light breakfast. Studied until 12 or 12:30. Then had lunch, took a 30 min break, sometimes an hour. Went back to studying at around 1pm. Studied until 4. Prepared dinner for me, my stepson and my husband. Around 5 or 6 went back to studying for sometimes another 3-4 hours. Studying ended sometimes at 9 or 10 pm.
This is like a typical day. Sometimes it was less of course. I think the key points are the following:
-take breaks: every hour for 5 min
-open your windows: fresh air helps against tiredness
-drink plenty: I drank 2-3 liters of water each day, keeps the circulation in your brain steady (sounds crazy but is not a joke)
- after getting terrible pains in my lower back I changed to a more comfortable chair
the most important is the psychological thing: have your goal in your mind all the time, tell yourself: I WANT this to turn out good and I WILL make it turn out good by studying very hard because that´s the only thing I can do to control the situation.
I hope, this helped a littlebit! Good luck with everything!
@zainy: Be patient. For most of the test takers the result was better than they thought. So was mine :-)
Have a nice day everybody!
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