![]() 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. More specifically I was uncommitted at first on what resources to use, how many questions to do, how should I do those questions, were my practice tests good representation of my knowledge, and what score I needed to land me a spot in my number one choice residency.īefore we dive into all of that I want to introduce myself. Looking back on my experience with this exam it is no secret that I was crazy nervous about the test and how to get ready for it. There is so much riding on the USMLE Step 1, and so much stress for us as medical students to do well on it. A common question that comes from those who want to score high, is how many practice questions before Step 1? Which can really be a bummer for medical students since Step 1 is an absolute beast of an exam. That magic number, I think it used to be a 240, but now a days it seems like it has moved even higher and the expectations are moving higher each year. ![]()
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