Now I feel like it was the right decision and my performance could have tanked, had I postponed the exam. Due to some family emergency I could not study more than 2-3 hours each day but I decided not to postpone the exam as I felt confident enough that I was ready. Each block was followed by annotating the High yield stuff in First Aid.įinal week :Light revision only. During the last month I was easily doing 4 UWorld blocks per day. Started my UWorld subscription (2 blocks per day) and also started doing flashcards daily (Anki/Picmonic/Sketchy) which was immensely helpful with the cram-able stuff. I did not go through First Aid thoroughly during this time.ĥ to 8 months:Completed my remaining questions of Kaplan qbank (2 blocks per week). All the high yields not found in First Aid were added to it. This way I was able to go through my resources (videos and notes) for a subject and do Qbank on the said subject within approximately 1 month per subject. Following the review of each subject videos and notes I completed 6 blocks (1 block per day) of Kaplan q Bank for that subject.
Read Conrad Fischer ethics cases twice cover to cover.
Lunch break 12:30 to 2:00pm.įirst 5 months :Kaplan notes followed by Kaplan videos of each subject followed by another revision of Kaplan notes along with first aid annotation of every subject one after another (2 to 3 weeks per subject). Kaplan classroom anywhere videos (2012)/Kaplan video lectures(2010)Ĭontinuous study from 6:30am to 12:30pm at a stretch.Study hours per day: 10-12 hours excluding breaks. After graduation I worked as a resident in pediatrics for around 6 months. I am an IMG, graduated in March of 2015 and took Step 1 in July, 2016.