Comments on: Want to Add 20-60+ Points to Step 1? Here’s How Long It Takes (16 Experiences) https://www.yousmle.com/step-1-time-frame-20-to-60-point-improvement/ Mastery - Not Memorization - For Impressive USMLEs Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:13:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Arveen Goraya https://www.yousmle.com/step-1-time-frame-20-to-60-point-improvement/#comment-2053 Fri, 03 May 2019 18:13:33 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=853#comment-2053 ]]> Hello alec, thanku for encouraging us through your motivational mails.. i have done uswa 1 got 205, and 75% in offline nbme 15.. am gng to have an exam within 1 and half month as my extended eligiblity period wud be over after that.. could i able to get upto 240 in just 6 weeks…? And wht should i prefer to increase my score? I have already done u world twice, FA 5,6 times.. am very still disapponted my performance.. please guide me sir.. 🙏🏻

]]> By: Ibukun https://www.yousmle.com/step-1-time-frame-20-to-60-point-improvement/#comment-2096 Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:22:16 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=853#comment-2096 Good Day Alec, I need some help please. I started using ANKI after discovering your website and it has been very helpful. I had been consistent with it daily since the beginning of the year and from May till now, I missed it for a couple of days and it became weeks and now months 🙁 I feel really bad and i want to get back to it. How do I do my ANKI cards after a 2 month break?

]]> By: Jaime https://www.yousmle.com/step-1-time-frame-20-to-60-point-improvement/#comment-2167 Sat, 01 Jul 2017 15:07:05 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=853#comment-2167 After exhausted efforts for passing this Step 1 and reading in many websites about promising you that they will make you pass this test, today I had found this website. Totally frustrated I had come to ask you how can I at least make it to get the results I always wanted to get? And any guide that leads me through my process in preparing so well after failed this test again. I’m lost in the space. And with no intentions to put my money in an unworthy bank again. Hope you can help because I don’t want to waste more money and if I’m going to do it again I want to do it worthy this time. Thanks in advance.

]]> By: FireFawkes https://www.yousmle.com/step-1-time-frame-20-to-60-point-improvement/#comment-2153 Sun, 23 Apr 2017 16:31:43 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=853#comment-2153 Hey Alec,
I’m broke so I can’t buy any of your cards. All I want is some sound advice. I’ve started doing uworld for the first time on timed random mode and I’ve finished just 22% in 3 weeks.. My percentage varies from 78%-85%. So prior to this I did Kaplan notes, videos and then read FA followed by rx qbank and pathoma videos. It’s been a year since I started prep but I studied only for 5months solidly.
My problem is that I’m unable to finish even a block of Uworld a day. I don’t know how to speed it up. I’m running short of time now and I’m sort of desperate. I’d be grateful if you could give me advice.
Much Thanks

]]> By: Yousmle https://www.yousmle.com/step-1-time-frame-20-to-60-point-improvement/#comment-1885 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:10:00 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=853#comment-1885 In reply to wella li.

Honestly one of the best ways is to use QBanks to identify gaps, then learn those particular topics that come up. There isn’t a one-stop resource that I’ve found that does a good job of highlighting all the high yield information.

]]> By: wella li https://www.yousmle.com/step-1-time-frame-20-to-60-point-improvement/#comment-1884 Fri, 19 Aug 2016 07:59:00 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=853#comment-1884 could you please help me .. i hate anatomy even though i got an A in my school exam but for the step 1 i dont know where & how to study it and what is important (high-yield and what is not ) please guid me

]]> By: Yousmle https://www.yousmle.com/step-1-time-frame-20-to-60-point-improvement/#comment-1856 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:16:00 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=853#comment-1856 In reply to joor.

I usually recommend doing one UWSA/4 blocks of UW, followed by NBME.

]]> By: joor https://www.yousmle.com/step-1-time-frame-20-to-60-point-improvement/#comment-1855 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 02:41:00 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=853#comment-1855 In reply to Yousmle.

Thanks- if i cant take two exams back to back what can i do? 8 blocks of questions for endurance?

]]> By: Yousmle https://www.yousmle.com/step-1-time-frame-20-to-60-point-improvement/#comment-1854 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:49:00 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=853#comment-1854 In reply to joor.

Great – best of luck!

]]> By: joor https://www.yousmle.com/step-1-time-frame-20-to-60-point-improvement/#comment-1853 Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:53:00 +0000 https://www.yousmle.com/?p=853#comment-1853 In reply to Yousmle.

Hey Alec,
thank you for your immediate response. The link you gave me was the first post I read. and here is my thinking:

Advice # 1: I would be comfortable with increasing my score in the NBME and on the REAL STEP at least 20 points = 227 (initially i wanted a higher score even before I started studying but being realistic I need more time and I already got all the time I could get and apparently wasn’t enough).

Advice number 2) I would like to take 2 back to back exams to practice my endurance and also practice doing simulations with 2 blocks first, then break, 2 blocks, break, 1 block, break, 1 block, break, 1 block and done BUT the thing is that following my review source I made the mistake of trusting them and I already took UWSA 1 and 2. SO WHAT CAN I DO INSTEAD

Advice # 3) I will be working to see if they can squeeze me in the only prometric test location in my area to take the practice exam.

Advice # 4) That is what I had in mind given the limited days I have and I learn most from Q banks and cross referencing it to first Aid than only reading FA or any other material (videos)

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