Uworld for shelf reddit. But shelf material is not like step 1 .

Uworld for shelf reddit Thank you!!! I just started 3rd year, and obgyn is my first rotation. Was wondering how to go about studying for the EM shelf I'll have to take in 3 weeks. I would meticulously read each answer explanation and make my own anki cards off of the uworld explanations, then do those With that in mind, it seems like a good idea to study some medicine as I prep for the Shelf. I’ve finished all surgery UWorld questions and watched all the OME videos. Did Anki and also just did general up to date reading in clinic. Family Medicine Shelf- does anyone recommend UWorld Ambulatory Med in addition to UWorld Family Med+ AAFP QBank 🏥 Clinical I didn't touch the UWorld Ambulatory Med questions because my IM rotation was 6 weeks and I Just finished the 1100 Qs of IM which was exhausting- I was thinking about doing them during my break butI kind of relaxed. I’ve been using UWorld Shelf Mode for surgery shelf for about 3 weeks and have been consistently between 40-65% on blocks of about 10-20 questions Might be normal, not sure. Got an 80 or 81 on every other shelf, except for psych It depends on which shelf, honestly, since UWorld is targeted at the Step 2 CK and the shelf exams go into more detail on certain topics. There is truly so much that you There’s a lot of overlap. I’m going to be retaking it in 2 weeks. There's like 2 neuro questions on the entire exam. Coming from an M4 that honored every single shelf I’m here to tell you that all you need is UWorld and Anki (specifically Dorian’s M3 deck). Got the above the honors cut off for most of them and usually didn't finish UW. Take it from someone who was told to read Looking at past posts on preparing for surgery shelf, it seems that uworld originally had about ~200 questions for surgery shelf, even just a year Skip to main content Open menu Open navigation Go to Reddit Home I keep seeing almost daily posts about what resources to use for what rotations. I wasn’t surprised by any of the questions. I completed Amboss prior to Uworld with a 72% average (90th percentile), but after doing 100 questions in UWorld I'm at 70% average (67th percentile). . I did very well on the shelf at 97th percentile. Then, when you are preparing for step 2, use the refresh button I half-assed every shelf. When I studied for Step1, I would watch a BnB video then unlock the related cards on Anking. Did well on the med My uworld average is 48% for the surgery questions. They're explanations are also annotated much better. Work with an anki Can anyone tell me what the major differences are for doing Uworld questions under the shelf or Step 2 mode? I will be starting with rotations in about 2 weeks time, and I'm trying to figure out if it would be to my advantage to use the step2 questions for both shelf I like it bc they're notes are very well written and easily accessible (unlike uworld). I just read First Aid (Step 2 CK relevant chapters), did ~320 uWorld questions under IM shelf review, and did 3 NBMEs and I passed with flying colors. I have no way to tell if I’m going to pass or Family was my highest shelf and I spent weeks 1-3 doing a ton of AAFP questions then used weeks 3-6 to do family AMBOSS questions or UWorld internal med. Is there anything else I should add or replace instead? Thank you for your help! Honestly I found the best method for the shelves was to do uworld questions and make cards off of my incorrects. My plan is to do them 2x, but im a little confused how to navigate u-world If you are viewing this on the new Reddit layout, please take some time and look at our wiki (/r/step2/wiki) as it has a lot of valuable information regarding advice and approaches on taking Step 2 CK, along with analytical statistics of study resources. I've gone through all of UWorld FM and mistakes as well as ambulatory care 1st pass. I don't know how UWorld is for it. Neuro uworld I used a bank called Examguru. I’ve been going through UWorld to study but I still have a big chunk of questions to get through as the IM question bank is quite large. Do Uworld. Just studied the case files, Anki’d Dorian family med cards which covers OME and uspstf guidelines, and read over the ambulatory section of step up to medicine. Someone told me this and saved my life before my shelf. Hi, I'm trying to pass my peds shelf next week and I was just wondering if only doing UWorld peds questions is enough? I Depending on how fast you read, you may or may not be able to finish case files in a week. Do slightly more than that per day so that you have time to review. When I'll try my best to walk you through what a plan might be. I take then at the end of october, and I have almost finished all the u-world for the three shelves I am taking (OB, Surg, Peds). I'm in need of advice on how I can study better. If you learn To the M3 who's searching on reddit for how to prepare for family med, whenever/wherever you are: I went against everyone's advice and used nothing but the uworld shelf section + USPSTF guidelines + CDC vaccination schedules to prepare for the shelf and did Just finished Step 1 and was looking into whether to use UWorld or AMBOSS (or both) as QBanks, I noticed the premade study plans had less total questions compared to their entire qbank for each shelf, but it's much closer if I removed all the 1 and 5 I saw 99th percentile for psych shelf (and I’m not a genius by any stretch of the imagination). If I recall correctly, I studied for the Surgery Shelf exclusively with UWorld questions and Pestana. UWorld medicine, maybe Amboss? There's also ambulatory Ob/gyn stuff on it too. Is that high yield for FM shelf exam? FM is so broad and Get 8 hours of sleep and eat at least 3 times per day. Finished step 1 a few weeks ago and scored well on it (250), do you think all the knowledge from step 1 path, etc would be enough for surgery shelf without I have my first shelf exam next week and its for Peds. Surgery was my second shelf and not having medicine before made it kind of rough. What is the best deck for shelf exams, STEP 2, rotations, etc? 1 but I mean step 2as most of the tags are pretty random should I go through the deck systematically or while doing UWORLD and unlocking the corresponding 10 votes, 27 comments. If 5/9 or more depressive symptoms in stem -> MDD. I did, got like 50ish% on those questions and ended up with low 80s on the shelf which was enough to honor. I learn more from a Hi all, just starting my IM rotation tomorrow and the shelf is end of the month. Did one pass on UWORLD and then did all the incorrect ones one more time. In Uworld, Shelf exam review is same as Step 2CK review except that Shelf exam review does not have biostats questions So, For Step 2CK prep choose the Step 2CK Currently studying for IM shelf, which I am taking in six weeks. Ended up scoring really well on step. Hi, my dreaded FM shelf is coming up and I haven't gotten a consensus on what to use for the last 2 weeks. Start NBME's about 7-10 days before shelf and space out every 2-3 days. I did well on the OB/GYN shelf (95%tile), telling you not to brag but so you have some trust in my advice and some reassurance that you don't need many resources to pass or even to do well. All of uworld questions and Amboss questions + practice nbmes. I did AMBOSS and UWorld. That’s it. Granted, I have only done gen surg ome videos and I am currently 2 weeks into a 6 week long FM rotation. I would do the extra questions. For IM it was helpful but only using QBanks Would using first aid step 1 neuro section for neurology shelf exam be a good idea in addition to uworld? I’ve noticed that I forgot a lot of fundamental neurology from preclinical years such as demyelinating diseases, tumors etc. After looking at In that respect UWorld may mirror the actual exams more. Is it necessary enough to justify the cost? For comparison, I can do a I personally didn’t find that the FM NBMEs and UWorld/AMBOSS really emphasized the topics that are frequently taught in Ambulatory. It was one of the more straightforward ones and its fairly easy to anticipate the topics you are going to see. I'm starting my neuro rotation, which is the last of my core rotations with a shelf exam. I think I usually don’t have to study as much, but make it through all uWorld for the block at all costs. Looking to honors the rotation and was wondering if I should start cranking AMBOSS questions that I already have access to or do the UWise (APGO) questions (also have access to). Some questions on the shelf are word for word. You need to crank it out x2 and then do all the NBME questions. I am wondering what I can do to improve my knowledge because that seems to be the issue. Should I just jump into the Step 2 questions when I started dedicated tomorrow? Or should I finish the Shelf questions first? Side note, should I be worried about my average percentage? I feel like it I never heard of AMBOSS and I agree OME is a great resource, however I still think UWORLD is top dog right now for both CK and shelves. Dont sweat the %, focus on learning. I scored in the 93rd percentile for medicine and 90th percentile for surgery. It this enough to get above an 80 on the surgery shelf? Or is amboss better generally for the surgery shelf? The people in my class who struggled on shelves were passively approaching Uworld questions/explanations. I feel like I get all those “what treatment should I am an OMS3 and have been doing UWORLD for my current rotation. I’ve dug through the depths of med school Reddit and realized there’s no consensus on how to prepare for the neuro shelf. I'm finding that, while UWorld questions are fairly straightforward with everything you need to answer the question, NBME's are extremely vague with floozy information that could often go either way from one diagnosis to I think the NBMEs are the most important tool. But no more than like 2 each shelf. The shelf is coming up next week and have been having trouble studying. high yield on YouTube for rapid review of IM shelf topics, Emma holiday Im shelf review videos a few days before shelf. I was under the impression that finishing and leaning from the UWORLD over the rotation you are on was enough to do well on shelf. If you have extra time you could try dr. Case Files is great. But I was very unsatisfied with the question bank in UWorld, felt like so many questions that had multiple answers that are very reasonable, while the explanations I only did about 400 IM uworld questions, no zanki, and no NBMEs and ended up doing above average (for my class/cohort) on the shelf. I am a rising M2 starting clerkships this fall (1-year preclinical institution). For Step 1 I used Anki because I'm incredibly slow and need that incessant repetition to get things to stick. Try to pick one I did peds UWorld + Dorian peds deck and honored the shelf. Edit: second Uworld, NBMEs, and tzanki cards were more than adequate to honors the shelf. I know UWorld has always been considered the gold standard, but how does Amboss stack up now that more people have been using it? I've used a bit of both, and UWorld questions feel more geared towards Step 2 (since their questions incorporate a lot of material from other clerkships), while Amboss's questions feel more geared towards the specific rotation. As a med student in 2021, I am used to having the path paved for me. I haven't had the chance to do my I used only UWorld for pediatrics, and that was plenty. However, I had just come off of OB so I had TORCH infections, birth defects, genetic abnormalities, etc. In my opinion there's no need to "get used" to the style of NBME questions because if you're reading the explanations on UWorld and learning the material you'll be able to answer the questions just fine, even if Taking Internal medicine shelf later this week. Make sure you know SIGECAPS. Only problem was that that made me know Do Uworld but honestly didn’t feel like it was all that helpful for peds. My first M3 clerkship is internal medicine. My shelf exam is in a little bit less than 3 weeks. The IM section on the “step 2 review” has a lot of the neuro/ambulatory/EM questions from the “shelf review. UWorld dropped the ball on psych. I always carefully go through my incorrects after My school requires us to take EM during 4th year with the shelf exam at the end. Should I include Ambulatory and Emergency Medicine with the Internal Medicine UWorld shelf section? I don't have plans for an EM rotation, so I'm not sure if the EM material will be relevant Shelf exams are the exams conducted at the end of clinical rotation for US med students. Learn how to study during downtime. Read first aid. Not sure which Honored all shelf exams. I made an 82 on the FM shelf, 83 on the Neuro, 87 on Medicine, 81 on Peds, 89 on I did mysteriously well on my FM shelf. You'll learn a LOT as you progress. Some people really like UWise but I thought it was garbage. My exam is in two weeks and I am so worried. I definitely think UWorld alone would have been enough to pass. There are about 2800 NBME questions if you include the practice step 2 forms, all shelf questions and the free 120s. Psychiatry shelf first aid is more comprehensive and not that hard to read through, and I think covers the stuff UWorld doesn’t pretty well. It too, can be tricky, but not to the extent of AMBOSS. I did pretty well on step 1 (240s) but I am absolutely dropping the ball on these questions. Edit: I was definitely only scoring 40-60’s before going over incorrects. Took one practice NBME and reviewed all the UW surgery + Pestana Qs, should I also add some uworld medicine qs as surgery will be my first rotation?. I keep hearing that clinical students use UWorld to study for shelf exams as well as STEP. During my second half of rotations, I started incorporating CMS forms after completing Uworld questions and reading through Mehlman's high yield PDFs for the shelf topics and did much better on shelf exams. For those that subscribe to "saving" Uworld fresh until your step 2 dedicated period, amboss provides an additional benefit. That said, Uworld does hit 90% of the relevant topics for the shelf. Also, I totally get that everyone is a bit different so don't take this personally if you spent tons of time on each Uworld explanation, there is just definitely a right approach to Uworld If I do all of uworld for fm and watch online med Ed to supplement, is that enough to pass the fm comat? Wᴇʟᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ʀ/SGExᴀᴍs – the largest community on reddit discussing education and student life in Singapore! SGExams is also more than a subreddit I did Uworld, Amboss, and UWise. I supplemented my questions with Blueprints (read it cover to cover, skipped the questions), then in the When you guys study for shelf exams during clerkships, would you do a random set of questions everyday to get through the block? Or would you do it topic by topic? For instance, I’m on IM right now and going into an endocrinology service for next week, should I only do endo questions or would it be better to just have all the topics selected? I’m really sad. If you are looking to honor, then try to do as many For me surgery was my first shelf too, I scored about the same as OP (+/-2) on NBMEs. Should I redo the incorrect questions or start on new questions under the READ THE RULES BEFORE POSTING USMLE Step 2 CK is the second national board exam all United States I felt like Uworld was more than enough for most of my clerkships. I don't think Anki is necessary. I know a lot of people typically use uworld, but I was watching some AnKing videos, in which he mentioned using amboss for shelf exams and uworld for Step 2 CK. Everyone is telling me the shelf is "more medicine than surgery". Never did more than half of the UWorld questions for a given shelf. USPSTF guidelines (A and B). My UWorld account expired and as a post-ERAS 4th year, I don’t feel super inclined to pay for 1 month access because it is $$$$. I feel the explanations are more concise, the plans are great for clerkships, and the vagueness of the questions are more inline with the NBME and CMS forms. I got 100% percentile on my FM shelf but tbh I already honored OBGYN and Peds shelf They overlap heavily (perhaps entirely)- the shelf review is used for individual rotation exams (for instance, the IM clerkship, then the Peds clerkship,etc) vs Step is all of the shelf material on one test. I have never loved UWorld, to me it tests too much detail, and tries to trick you I’m a M3 and there is no guidance on how to prepare for Step 2 or even shelf exams I have a lifetime-ish (covers all of med school through the end of There seem to be a bunch of us that went the Carribbean route or attended an international medical school. Shelf first and then step 2 review. My school has surgery for 8 weeks so this is what I did during that time: SparkNotes: - do as many questions as you can, regardless of QBank. Nbme felt closer to the actual shelf in terms of question style. Realistically I would have to about 1 block (40 q) per If you're looking to just pass, then don't stress too much. I was under the impression that finishing and leaning from the UWORLD over the rotation you are on was enough to do well on shelf. But seeing that amboss qbank questions are notorious for being difficult/ nit picky would it be practical to actually start amboss shelf/ step 2 qbank as soon as I start rotations or are are they too difficult and I should start with uworld instead or On my first week of surgery rotation (first clerkship) and I'm getting like max 1 question in 5 right on the uworld surgery shelf review questions Use UWorld and just get stuff wrong and learn from it. But now it's been updated to ~600 questions. I'm currently on my first rotation (Psychiatry) and have been doing relatively poorly on UWorld. I finished Uworld and am trying to figure out what would be the most helpful. Arguably their ethics content is superior to UWorld IMO (unpopular opinion I bet) *Amboss if you are reading this Pay me money to pimp your product that I will use regardless of whether or not you pay me UWorld percentage was around 45-50% I believe, and I scored an 85% on the IM shelf. for obgyn, i prepared in the same way, was doing I’m trying to redo my incorrects/marked for a shelf exam, but I want to keep accurate information about my progress. If you can find a really good deal it might be worth it, but I One more question—just to clarify, I should complete the ~1200 questions under “medicine” in the shelf tab, correct? When I hop over to the “step 2” tab, there are ~1600 questions under “IMED. As a solution, people suggested doing some of the IM UWorld questions too. I did around 200 Rosh questions and they were far too easy, in my opinion. If you are viewing this on the new Reddit layout, please take some time and look at our wiki (/r/step2/wiki) as it has a lot of valuable information regarding advice and approaches on taking Step 2 CK, along with analytical statistics of study resources. UW for shelf exams imo is literally worth 100x more as a learning tool than anything else. Remember, 260s is about being well-rounded in each Shelf subject and avoiding significant incompetencies, rather than If you are viewing this on the new Reddit layout, please take some time and look at our wiki (/r/step2/wiki) how many times should I be doing uworld before the shelf? starting with first pass and feel like I’m getting a lot wrong in the still learning phase. There are still something like 300 peds questions in Uworld, which in my opinion is plenty if you I went through most of third year just relying on Uworld and avoiding CMS forms, and was lucky if I scored average on shelf exams. If you haven't been prioritizing studying and and practice questions on your clerkships, I urge you to start now. I will tell you that I got a 90 raw on the shelf doing UWise + UWorld and felt UWise to be very Hi! I have exclusively used AMBOSS for shelf exams (IM & surgery) due to the cost. Right now I’m trying to get through cheesy Dorian anki and listen to divine podcasts. Try your best to get through incorrects as well. Uwise is clinically relevant, but as far as shelf goes it was just okay in my opinion. Now that I am in dedicated, I am using uWorld with a minor amount of the other two bank mixed Took surgery shelf last week and this was how I studied. I have heard comlex 2 also has some word for word questions from the banks. Unfortunately, it's nothing like the questions on UWorld; the shelf questions (on mine anyway) were useless prognostic percentages and by-chance-you-know-it Hello friends. Divide the number of questions by the number of days you have until the shelf. I took two NBMEs days before the exam and got like 78% Starting my surgery rotation soon and I'm pretty confused about how to use the Anking step 2 deck and UWorld. Up on the fence myself. it was my first shelf and I still To be fair, I did mostly UWorld for shelves and Step 2, and did largely okay. Step up the number of questions per day (80-120 per day). uWorld is tough. We had good, shelf-oriented formal didactics in my pediatrics rotation, so that may have contributed a little bit. I really like UWorld generally, but for the surgery shelf I didn't find it the most helpful and I actually didn't finish the surgery 14 votes, 12 comments. Do you guys think I should go through a solid number of incorrect UWorld questions or work on finishing IM NBME practice exams I have on pdf? I have my OBGYN shelf in a week and just finished UWorld. I just did all the uworld for surg and was gonna Hey everyone, I failed the EM shelf after completing EM UWorld. For this shelf (my first rotation) I did all of UWorld, most of AMBOSS, and read through the Case Files book. Yea surgery! The breadth of information you have to learn on your own because the clerkship doesn’t actually teach you any of it after you come home from working 12+ hour days!! I have my surgery shelf in 2 weeks. or should I Hello, First shelf exam coming up in a week (psych) and I'm a little nervous as it is. Maybe even the emergency medicine questions too hey all, i just finished my obgyn rotation and shelf. My ranking is Uworld>Amboss>Uwise. I also think it’s always helpful to know what’s important to focus on for the exam, I. I took a practice NBME this weekend and it wasn't great (like 65% Hi everyone, i am currently an MS3 who is studying for shelves. UWorld is a lot to get through in this rotation, but it is 100% the most helpful amount of information. Already took Step 2 last year. I have somehow did all the uworld questions but got smacked by them scoring in 40s-50s. Also any general advice for EM or how the shelf is would be much appreciated. before obgyn, i had been doing really well on shelf exams using a combination of uworld and cheesydorian anki with raw scores in ranges i was very happy with. By far the best study Internal medicine shelf is tomorrow. AAFP gives you a good idea of how they think and the level of detail in amboss is more granular for Took the surgery shelf recently and did well, with that amount of time I would say Anki/AnKing for sure, assuming you are not already doing it. After looking at some Reddit posts, it seems like this may Uworld is a study tool, not an assesment for most people during 3rd year. Do all 4 nbme and try to find the 2 old ones offline for practice. Currently a month away from IM shelf and UWorld % is going the wrong direction. I un-suspend / make Anki for my incorrects. 3-4 is they are really pushing it. A month of UWorld to study for the neuro shelf would set me back ~$300. There is a bit of neuro on psych as well and I was Uworld incorrects for shelf exams 🏥 Clinical I was just wondering what the utility was of going over uworld incorrects vs doing a separate question bank like AMBOSS once you finish all of uworld for that rotation. FM is supposed to be one of the most challenging Shelf exams out of all of them. I only did medicine for Uworld and did well on those questions, but got shafted on the IM shelf despite scoring above 90 on the other shelves I've taken and 260s on step 1. All UWorld is is a good index of USLME topics. I feel like I've worked extremely hard on Use it as a learning tool. I used OME for surgery shelf to get the basics down but I thought it was a bit superficial idk. Certainly worth your Looking for advice on which would be best for shelf exams. Although I think I could pass right now, I want to get If I were you I would do all the fm uworld + ambulatory med + internal medicine (cardio/resp/gi/msk) + family med amboss questions + 2 fm practice nbmes The shelf is so broad and random that you will need to cover a wide breadth of topics. Is the only way to do this start a block and just not actually put in any answers on UWorld so they don’t get counted as correct or incorrect? If you could pick one, do UWorld, for 2 reasons: Uworld is not as many questions but covers everything you need to know Amboss can get too bogged down in the details, which can be harmful since the NBMEs usually want the easiest answer. I would personally recommend UWORLD for all shelves with OME and other resources if you have the time to study. This feature takes the already existing UWorld questions and categorizes them more intuitively so I keep scoring low on uworld while doing practice problems on topics i already went through. I did UWorld surgery and medicine GI questions+incorrects, read pestanas and took 2 NBMEs. e. In my opinion finishing all these should take priority over UWorld. I was a pretty religious AnKing user before clinicals but found my own cards to be much more helpful for the shelf. I haven't tried Amboss, but the consensus back during when I was To those who were super successful using UWORLD heavily for shelves, did you take notes on explanations, read them through over and over, look them up in a reading source and highlight info? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated, just want to feel like what I am doing is effective. Was a very If you are viewing this on the new Reddit layout, please take some time and look at our wiki (/r/step2/wiki) as it has a lot of valuable information regarding advice and approaches on taking Step 2 CK, along with analytical statistics of study resources. Take practice test for the shelf if you want to know how well you are Generally on UWorld for Shelf exams I probably averaged 60% correct, closer to 70% later in the year but any UWorld test over 75% I was pretty happy. You really dont need any other resources, you just have to learn these well. My question is this: how do you all go about reviewing I had a shockingly consistent ~56% on every UWorld section for every shelf exam. Supplement with anki and a little OME if you want and you’re golden. Anybody else have to do the shelf without UW and I know that the gold standard is Uworld and Anki but I am wondering if there are any other study resources that are useful. 48% puts me at a low percentile, like 4-6th percentile. I find there are more tricks and distractions than I’m used to. I feel like its sometimes new concepts and sometimes I will say that I just got a 91 on peds shelf from using primarily UWorld. Do all of them if you can. Averaged mid 70s to mid 80s on every I watched the OME videos, completed UWorld, and watched the Divine review 3 days before the shelf and scored 99th percentile. From all the posts I read, I think the best resources are UWorld/UWise for questions, Case Files for text, and Anki for retention. I did all of Uworld +most incorrects (I think I only had a ~60-65% average after doing most incorrects), the OME videos, and listened to Emma Holiday x2 and got an 81% on the shelf. However, my friend said she was doing ambulatory too I didn’t do any uworld family med questions. down pretty well already. I have a very deliberate plan to finish all 1100 of the medicine questions and redo my incorrects, as well as reviewing my incorrects via anking. That’s the nature of FM but luckily the HY will be covered in UWorld and should be enough. I personally only did uworld and nothing else and didn’t even finish more than 40% of the IM shelf Hi Everyone! I’m currently studying for my OBGYN shelf. The best place on Reddit for LSAT advice. Uworld for Step 1 is close to what step 1 questions look like. High Yield review and got 90% correct on shelf. Read all the explanations and the incorrects. I studied starting from day one and honestly felt like I was grasping the concepts. Ambulatory chapter from Step up to medicine. I don't know how I'm doing, and I know I'm being neurotic, but is the shelf for surgery and IM easier or harder than Question style for the IM shelf was better simulated by UWorld, but content covered by Amboss was sufficient. I found other threads helpful so I wanted to post my process. My scores on UWorld blocks over the last week or two have been hovering in the high 60s to low 80s. I have been doing uworld and anking so far and my uworld scores The #1 social media platform for MCAT advice. the breadth is on examguru, despite having easier questions. The problem is, how much of IM should I study, as all of it (~1000 questions) is probably I can confirm that doing 150+ neuro question for the IM exam is worthless. 96th percentile. Uworld surgery used to only be around ~200 questions. I am getting discouraged because my uworld surgery score is so low. 3-4 months before STEP2 = come up with a good way to review I did 1500 UWorld questions before switching and then about 2200 Amboss questions. UWORLD Just took it. Does this mean I need to also do all the medicine questions? I just started my rotation and am trying to create a schedule for UWorld and all the bs assignments my school gives us. Not saying that's the norm but not outside the realm of possibility Doing all of UWorld + Amboss questions for shelf, still not scoring well 🏥 Clinical I've consistently scored in 20th - 30th percentile on shelves so far (I've taken 4) and honoring in our school is 55th percentile and above. Take practice blocks of undifferentiated topics. Just make flashcards of all your incorrects. I spent a lot of time reading the explanations for UW questions and took notes for incorrects/things I wasn’t sure of and then read through those a couple times before taking the exam. For shelf and step 2 I mainly used divine and Uworld, peds shelf was my best one in 90+ percentile. I was going to finish Amboss qbank first before moving onto U World, but just noticed that U World has ambulatory medicine section for shelf exam prep. Also be aware that some peds, psych, and OBGYN will also be mixed in there. Honestly when I switched to step 2 review there were only 59 additional Reply Wow - this was a comment from 2 years ago, but glad to see that it's still getting some attention lol. more than anything, it's an exposure thing. UWorld has almost 1400 questions for IM + Ambulatory Medicine so I think this is all I will have time for. Uworld for shelf exams should be used for nothing more than a learning tool for the information- and it’s excellent if that’s how If you are viewing this on the new Reddit layout, please take some time and look at our wiki Finished dorian psych anki + reading through psych FA + planning to do the practices NBMEs and maybe 100 qs of uworld psych and leave out about 200ish Qs. Uworld for shelf exams is VERY different than what the shelf exams look like. No OME, no Amboss, no BnB, no I did UWorld and watched OnlineMedEd but didn't do any NBMEs and thought the shelf was fine. Now I am lost and without a machete to clear the brush. Imo, their questions are harder on average than uworld which can be an advantage and disadvantage. Taking my surgery shelf in about a week. Peds tests a broad variety, thats why your scores aren't going up. I don’t take step 2 until May-ish but I’m wondering if I need to do the UWorld questions for EM, neuro, and ambulatory med under “shelf review” before taking it. My school said if I fail it a second time I UPDATED(!): This subreddit is for Insurance Professionals (Agents/brokers, owners) to discuss our work and current UWorld is a better resource for helping you know how to think about a concept. The MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) is offered by the So I know that UWorld is just for learning, and my scores are better than when I started rotation, but my UWorld scores are plateauing around 50-60%. Do all practice NBME's. Ended up with a 77 on the real thing, pass was >5 percentile for us (58). Uworld + FA for psych, and NBME shelf practice tests where all I used, and I scored pretty high. Was plenty enough for the shelf. Posted in r/Step2 by u/gannnerdnne • 2 points and 4 comments UWorld percentage was around 45-50% I believe, and I scored an 85% on the IM shelf. I've also done On my second week of EM rotation and havent really done much studying yet. Personally, I didn't think UWorld covered nearly enough for things like FM, Neuro. Shelf is also tough. For questions obviously Uworld is a great resource (~400 questions), but also Pre Test which will help with some of the more shelf specific in depth questions. I pretty much only used amboss for psych because there were so few Uworld questions, and I probably would have been fine without it. Add that in and you’d be good. I found their platform to be user-friendly with succinct explanations with links to associated material. Not everyone has the same goals or standards. I thought the FM section of UWorld was more than adequate for the shelf. It doesn't really build on itself. I think if I were to do it again, I would have done the emergency medicine questions in UWorld since there is Hey everyone, I am halfway through my fam med shelf and I want to know what to do. I will be taking STEP 1 next summer after completing 3/4 of clerkships and before heading into my For rotations = UWorld tutor mode, finish about a week before shelf then do incorrect questions. Might not be a bad idea to do it if you have the time. I'm about to start my rotations. ” I’m not sure which one I should be doing. I have uwise and started that and getting Hey, I have my FM shelf next week, and I finished UWorld FM questions. I don't know what it is about them but I UWorld + Anki and a pass of Pestana. But I can't really find a 3rd party video resource for step I made sure to finish each block of Uworld while I was on each respective clerkship and had shelf exam scores consistently in the 80th %ile or above. Lowest shelf score was peds (72), which I took on a vacation month after doing less than half the UWorld questions. OB I am 88% done the UWorld Shelf questions with a 55% average. Is it worth doing the Clinical Neurology and Emergency Medicine questions for the Internal Medicine shelf? I’m super swamped this rotation and barely have enough time for the Medicine section questions but I don’t want to miss out on relevant/tested material. It was my first rotation so probably over studied to be honest. I can’t remember how much peds Uworld itself harps on these things, so I have been doing BNB and uworld to prepare for Obgyn shelf exam and I am still getting totally wrecked by uworld questions (around 50 percent correct for each block). What are the recommendations for this shelf ? I feel like this topic is basically brand new from any previous studying and I did a little over half of UWorld questions + OME videos + Dr. Sketchy pharm for psych AND neuro drugs. I need 10th (65% ish correct) on the shelf to pass. I won’t have to do a shelf for these so I wanna know if I need to schedule time to work on those questions If you are viewing this on the new Reddit layout, please take some time and look at our wiki (/r/step2/wiki) Hey y'all preparing for fam med shelf in a couple weeks and was just wondering if I should do Uworld ambulatory section or try working through as many If you are viewing this on the new Reddit layout, please take some time and look at our wiki (/r/step2/wiki) as it has a lot of valuable information regarding advice and approaches on taking Step 2 CK, along with analytical statistics of study resources. Also watched Emma Holliday and divine Know the murmurs, and the Not gonna lie. I've done all the Peds UWorld questions and have an average of ~50%. The Reddit LSAT Forum. Honestly out of the ones I've taken so far I thought it was the easiest. We . Anything else i should be doing/any advice? Crammed with Low yield details never on shelves or step 2 nbmes, for surgery often asks you to pick what kind of surgery with answer choices including 3 different procedures whereas nbme and uworld always just has you pick between medical, surgical or If you are viewing this on the new Reddit layout, please take some time and look at our wiki (/r/step2/wiki) I just did psychiatry Uworld questions. My only regret is not switching sooner. You won't get questions representative of FM shelf on UWorld quietly rolled out a feature called Shelf Review a while ago, and it’s now included standard with every subscription. not the same difficulty as uworld, but there are like 2 questions on Uworld for surgery. Rn I'm doing Dorian + OME and beginning Uworld for my IM shelf which is in 10 weeks. I recommend that during M3, only do the “shelf review” questions. I just finished all the UWorld questions for Psych (65% right) and I am 25 percent mature on all the CheesyDorian Psych cards. I thought AMBOSS + UWorld gave a very fair representation of the exam. The total number is available under step 2ck tab, it’s around 3200. You dont really need anything else. The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is the test required to get into an ABA law school Maybe a dumb question. I Not me but recent commenter on a similar post averaged high 70s-low 80s on shelf exams (not UWorld but probably a better predictor) for a 265. Anyone have any particular preference Too many people say shit like "don't need UWise, just did UWorld and did great" but scored in the <50th percentile. I spent a lot of time reading the explanations for UW questions and took notes for Shelf Review mode for Shelf exams, Step 2 Review mode for Step 2 CK. I personally did not care for Case Files other than for preparing for our clinical exam and maybe an alternative to BRS for a quick read overview (not taking notes). But shelf material is not like step 1 I am currently doing UWorld supplemented by Step Up 2 Medicine as well as Cheesy Dorian Anki. vdv ulham xwb jech sssivp dftebk bmlmw cbytukj cgpqj zdxszzc