![]() ![]() It’s difficult for me to do this with practice exams because there are so many questions and I don’t ever remember why I answered a certain way when going back through them. But I learn best when I can go through questions and understand why I missed something. Of course, this is going to be a personal preference.I only completed the two UWorld self-assessments that came with my UWorld subscription. I actually did not buy any NBMEs or NBOMEs for Step 2/Level 2.The only thing I truly scheduled was how many UWorld questions to do per day. I did not schedule this into my plan, but rather would watch specific videos based off of questions I missed.I’m a visual learner so this allowed me to draw and write all over his pre-written notes while I watched the videos. I also printed out his notes (which are part of the paid subscription) and had them bound into a textbook.OnlineMedEd is basically a necessity for Step 2/Level 2.Anki walks – every day I would take a 30-60 minute walk (or two) around my neighborhood and do Anki cards! This helped me feel more active and also retain the information better.Pick the most important reason(s) you missed that question, make a short card from that info, and move on. I limited myself to 1-2 cards per question missed, since I didn’t want to become bogged down creating a million cards that I would never go through. Similarly to my Step 1/Level 1 study strategy, I added cards to a specific Anki deck that I made for missed UWorld questions.I still found this extremely important for Step 2/Level 2 as micro and pharm take up the majority of all med school board exams. I reviewed Sketchy Micro and Pharm using my own Anki decks ( which you can download here).It’s difficult for me to use other people’s Anki cards because they usually aren’t organized the way I would organize things and that is distracting to me. I didn’t use any pre-made Anki sets – they aren’t really my things.I feel that Step 1/Level 1 ask more small-detail questions, whereas Step 2/Level 2 ask more broad clinical and treatment questions. If you read my Step 1/Level 1 blog post, you know this is not how I studied for those boards. Overall, I found that I did better on Step 2/Level 2 by simply getting through as many questions as I could, as many times as I could.This way, I would get through the questions faster and didn’t spend too much time on the small details. I’d then set a time limit for how much time I could take going through the answer choices (usually 30-60 minutes total for the question set). So instead, I would do small timed questions sets of 10-20 questions. ![]() However, I found that this was taking me too long when studying for Step 2. For Step 1, I did most of my question sets on tutor mode. During dedicated, I reset the qbank and this time began doing mixed question sets.I didn’t get through all of UWorld, but I got through most of it (roughly 85% of the the qbank). I used this to study for my rotation-specific shelf exams. During third-year rotations, I completed as many corresponding UWorld questions as I could with each rotation.Luckily, I didn’t burn out but I guess my point is I think most people just need 3-4 weeks for their dedicated this go around. Honestly, I kind of felt like this was too long because by week 3 I was ready to take the exam and was worried I would burnout. My dedicated time was 4 weeks for this exam. I kept my other resources to a minimum! Below is an outline of how I used each resource. In contrast, I kept things pretty simple for USMLE Step 2 CK and COMLEX Level 2. If you’ve read my blog post about studying for Step 1 and Level 1, you know that I had a really specific way of going through questions and using outside resources. ![]()
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