I stopped doing practice questions and focused entirely on lectures for the test.įor example, my block tests were on Mondays. So, from July to December of second year I did 15 questions per day, the only exception was during the 4 days leading up to a block exam. I did 15 per day starting the first day of second year. The perfect amount of questions really depends on how many you ultimately want to get through. Give each question all of your attention and try to get it right everytime meaning, treat it like you are testing. So this point means there is a specific amount you need to do, as well as you need to put all your effort into every question.ĭon’t look up answers to the questions, or just randomly guess because you don’t want to get it wrong or don’t know it. Your effort really needs to be 100% and you need to be all in with every single question. This point is really two fold, because you don’t just want to do questions for the sake of doing questions. So in summary, practice questions are the absolute best resource for your Step 1 prep. Questions are the most efficient way to learn the material! Do questions early and often. Some people will say that they are “saving” their questions for when they know more. Now, I don’t tell you that to brag, I just tell you to show that I actually came quite a ways and do know what I am talking about when it comes to USMLE Step 1. That is a 704 COMLEX 1 and a 256 USMLE Step 1. Long story short, I am on track to have a 4.0 in medical school and I scored in the 97th percentile on the COMLEX Level 1, as well as the 91st percentile on the USMLE Step 1. I made an agreement with myself that I would never score that low on an exam again, because I wanted choices the next time I went through a similar process, or in other words I wanted choices for residency! Long story short, my wife cried when we got to the place we would call home in Kentucky (the home/town wasn’t what we expected), so I put on my big boy pants and got to work the first day of medical school. This means that my wife and I landed 2,000 miles from home in rural Kentucky/rural Tennessee for the first two years of medical school. So, this poor score meant that I wasn’t picky with medical school admissions. I got into medical school with a 50th percentile MCAT score… yup I didn’t really study at all for that exam. My name is Sean Kiesel, as I write this I am a 4th year Osteopathic Medical Student in the midst of residency interview season. Before we dive into all of that I want to introduce myself.
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