02-27-2007, 06:43 AM
gratis!
Did you do IV bank?thanx!
Did you do IV bank?thanx!
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got the score 251/99 - madras
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02-27-2007, 06:45 AM
Madras:
Could you post your exam Qs again since I cannot find it?
02-27-2007, 06:55 AM
please advice on how do you go about buying the kaplan dvd's or reading materials. want to start preparing for my usmle soon.
02-27-2007, 05:35 PM
exam date 18th Jan
score report date 14th feb score 99/251 qbank 74% q book 82% uworld : didnt do nbme form 2 600(20 days b4) usmle cd 42/45/40
02-27-2007, 05:46 PM
congratulations man, lots of luck in your career
02-27-2007, 06:06 PM
am jus writing a smalll summary of my prep.... though i started my prep almost 8 months back...i lost almost 3 months in this span bcos of some other personal probs and travels. so the effective prep is say 5 months... out of which the last 2 months was really rigouous. did almost around 12- 14 hrs a day.
i joined kaplan in india and got to watch all the videos. i found the biochem, immuno, anatomy really helpful as it was 5 yrs since i did them. so watching videos for step 1 is not a bad idea going by me. u surely can skip path & micro tapes, may be beh sciences as well if u don have time for tapes. after taht i did around 4 revisions of kap study material along with online kaptest after 1st revision. i also did kap q book. i came to know the importance of first aid only after a friend of mine took the exam a few days b4 me....so did a last min reading of first aid in the last 3 days.. pls do FA from beginning of prep. then did my NBME form 2 20 days b4 exam and got a score of 600. the performance showed that the kap path notes wasnt sufficient atleast for renal and some basic pathology. did a bits and pieces reading from robbins for these topics. my online kap began to be get standardise around 40 a few days b4 exam... though i found NBME tougher than kaptest, the original exam was even more tougher for me. first 3 blocks were damn tough... the last 4 were a bit ok...had loads of anatomy, mol biology, slides, graphs... after my exam, i felt i would get 90 +..tahst all.. i found many of the answers only in journals and not std textbooks... Qs were really long..i din have a minute to spare even in a single block... i would click the last ans and the time would close... my recommendation is don do more than 2 revisions of kaplan notes..its not going to help... if there r Qs from kap material then it will be direct and u will surely get it right... more than 2 reading is not useful.... if at all u want to improve then do soem xtra reading from robbins after knowing ur weak areaas following a NBME test... i that helps.. for those u r targeting a pass, jus do kap material reading twice/thrice and then do kaptest online.... nothing else is needed..don overload.... u can verywell get 85 + |
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