taipei817
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mcat :37
med school performance: right on the average of class.
UsmleWorld(use this!) finished and scored 72% in the end(never felt confident with the questions even towards the end of it, there were always something to learn). recommend to allocate at least 45 days for this thing. repeat wrong questions (our memory sucks).
NBME form 3(242 ~2 month prior),
form 2(254, 2 weeks after form 2)
Uworld simulation: 261(~2weeks prior)
usmle free 150 online question(1 or 2 days prior, estimated on medfriend website to be around 263).
Overall prep time: 2 months (skipping school classes entirely for 1.5 months). hours per day: roughly 8-12.
The rule is FORGETTING. the pattern is either forgetting stuff all the time or a cycle of learning and forgetting. dont worry/dont panic, this is a natural process.
however, as long as the study process doesnt burn you out, the score should steadily increase as more or less knowledge is being accumulated over time. also, try not to think you are in the cycle of forgetting in the last week of prep (this a mature defense mechanism).
good luck and thanks to everybody on this Forum.
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| innocent devil
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great scores...congarts
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| yousefreda
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hey when u were doing ur step 1 how many questiosn were u unsure of on average PER block
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| cherryho
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Hey are you Taiwanese? Just curious. haven't really seen one around.
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| usmlekiller
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seems like AMG?
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| Compassion_MD
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Another Taiwanese... =D
I have a question!
I am still a 2nd semester students and was wondering if
I should just pick up all the "review" books recommened by everone here... like HY for neuroanatomy, BRS for physiology, Lipp for Biochem and just memorize those review books
or
should I still read books like Guyton physiology, Mark's biochemistry during my basic science studying and save those review books after I finished my basic science when starting to study for USMLE?
Thanks a bunch =D
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| taipei817
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yousefreda wrote:
hey when u were doing ur step 1 how many questiosn were u unsure of on average PER block
id say roughly 5-10 depending on the block. and my experience usually translate into 0.5*(number of unsure)+ 1 to 2.
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| taipei817
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Compassion_MD wrote:
Another Taiwanese... =D
I have a question!
I am still a 2nd semester students and was wondering if
I should just pick up all the "review" books recommened by everone here... like HY for neuroanatomy, BRS for physiology, Lipp for Biochem and just memorize those review books
or
should I still read books like Guyton physiology, Mark's biochemistry during my basic science studying and save those review books after I finished my basic science when starting to study for USMLE?
Thanks a bunch =D
both could be fine but remember the rule is forgetting, so whatever you try to remember during the second semester would go into deep space after a short while. so read whatever you enjoy reading during first year but start using review books early after the first summer to make up for whatever big concept that were not solid, especially physiology. for 2nd year, i would just go with review books and robbins text. what i did during first year was skipping a lot of classes and reading first aid and brs physiology, which didnt make sense at all, and almost failing exams...
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| taipei817
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cherryho wrote:
Hey are you Taiwanese? Just curious. haven't really seen one around.
yes i am twnese and AMG. 
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| Compassion_MD
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Taiwanese too from Taipei... but in Caribbeans... didn't take MCAT
Thanks Taipei817 for your input... =D
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| cherryho
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I am Taiwanese too  . I got my medical degree in Taiwan and came here for graduate school.
Do you know how many of your classmates score > 260? Your score is still considered rare among American students right? My husband is Taiwanese American, and an AMG too. He took the exam 11 years ago when it was still paper based. He told me at that time the avg score was lower.
Anyway, congratulations on the great score and nice seeing you around.
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| yousefreda
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yea why is it i hear that US medical students average 85 on this exam.... somehow i didnt believe that... im sure u guys average about 260??
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| usmlekiller
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haha actualy 85-90 is about right......many of them are slackers....and barely get by......so not all of them get 99.....only abt 1.8% of step 1 takers get 99......according to wat i read in a different forum
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| taipei817
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usmlekiller wrote:
haha actualy 85-90 is about right......many of them are slackers....and barely get by......so not all of them get 99.....only abt 1.8% of step 1 takers get 99......according to wat i read in a different forum
according to official data, 10% of step 1 takers get 99, and i hear different story about whether amg or img score better, again according to official records, img has higher fail rates.
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| yousefreda
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so then the average is 85-90?
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| taipei817
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yousefreda wrote:
so then the average is 85-90?
the official score report says 222, someone up here may know what 2 digit score a 222 is.
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| tilingo
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hey you taiwanese ppl.... my parents are from tw.. haha so i guess i'm taiwanese too haha
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| usmlekiller
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ya low 90s i think
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| gray10
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congrads.
if mean is 222 and sd is 20, 68% fall within one sd
about 16% of people will get >240 and 16% below 200.
so > 260 is 2sd. or less than 2.5% of people get this.
99 is i think > 240 then that is only 1 sd or 16% get 99.
what do people think.
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| taipei817
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gray10 wrote:
congrads.
if mean is 222 and sd is 20, 68% fall within one sd
about 16% of people will get >240 and 16% below 200.
so > 260 is 2sd. or less than 2.5% of people get this.
99 is i think > 240 then that is only 1 sd or 16% get 99.
what do people think.
would be pretty accurate if the score distribution were normal instead of negatively skewed.
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| abummeis
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Good jop taipei817.
I'm thinking about this exam & i hope that u could help me with these Qs.
1-Do u think its possible for me to do the exam after the 3rd year of medicine school ,
if u know that i don't have any experience about hospital & the clinical things ,sense we(in our college) don't do practical things until the 4th year?
2-Im confuse about the scores ?i mean, sometimes the wrote 245\99%
Othertimes wrote 240 \ 99% or 246\99% ? what is the exact score of this exam ? & how many MCQs the step1 does contain?
3- what is NBME(1,2,3….etc)? is this a board of Qs like USMLE world?
Pardon me, cause this USMLE is new thing for me. I'm still in 3rd year in medicine school.
thanks
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| taipei817
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abummeis wrote:
Good jop taipei817.
I'm thinking about this exam & i hope that u could help me with these Qs.
1-Do u think its possible for me to do the exam after the 3rd year of medicine school ,
if u know that i don't have any experience about hospital & the clinical things ,sense we(in our college) don't do practical things until the 4th year?
2-Im confuse about the scores ?i mean, sometimes the wrote 245\99%
Othertimes wrote 240 \ 99% or 246\99% ? what is the exact score of this exam ? & how many MCQs the step1 does contain?
3- what is NBME(1,2,3….etc)? is this a board of Qs like USMLE world?
Pardon me, cause this USMLE is new thing for me. I'm still in 3rd year in medicine school.
thanks
1. step 1 is testing basic science(as oppose to clinical knowledge step 2), which are basically the topics you find in first aid. im not sure what type med school system you are in. but you may want to look at first aid and see if you have learned most of the topics.
2. just know that 99 is not 99 percentile, 99 is actually ~10% of all exam takers.
3. go to nbme.org self assessment, nbme1 refers to Self assessment form 1, in other words, practice exam 1.
good luck.
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| abummeis
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thank for all these advices.
"just know that 99 is not 99 percentile, 99 is actually ~10% of all exam takers."
what is that mean ??????????????????
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| taipei817
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abummeis wrote:
thank for all these advices.
"just know that 99 is not 99 percentile, 99 is actually ~10% of all exam takers."
what is that mean ??????????????????
sorry for the confusion, i meant roughly 10% if exam takers get a 99 score.
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| dr_puma
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great score all the best for ur future
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