you now concentrate in those 46 questions and read the explanations, take a sheet of paper and if the question you failed says: a 46 y/0 female, obese, with RUQ pain what is the best diagnostic step? you DON'T write in the sheet: - the next best dx test for f,f,f,f is Ultrasound, you MUST write: - Hepatic pathology, and you must go and study the hepatic pathology again!. So now you forget about full blocks and timed mode. (if you do well, well just continue to do full 46 blocks and stop reading! )

So you start UW and do an assessment exam, a full 46 block timed questions, and this gives you an idea of your level, as i said UW always crushed me at the beginning so if this happens to you don't feel bad and follow me!. so after 1 read and a lot of questions you plan ahead 1 month for UW and 2 weeks after the UW to make some NBME.

then after each subject just start to make questions (not from UW) just easy questions you find for free online, this is a good time to use Qbook, but watch out for the Pediatrics questions on the qbook that's just a mess because they are more difficult that UW and the real exam (from my xp). So the First think to do is to read at least 1 time the notes (for all subjects) for me is like just to know where is everything, I know i will forget many things, at least i know where to find them. So the first thing you should understand is that here we are going to use UW as a study source not just a qbank to practice questions, personally for me its very difficult to prepare the exams only reading the notes because when im reading i don't know where to put my effort and what things to make a quick read.but because im very competitive person when I see im failing badly in UW the challenge is on!! and is in that moment that i start learning a lot from failed questions, and improving my level i cant forget a failed question. Ok lets talk about UW, you can find a lot of options like: Timed, Untimed, New, Used, Unused, and many of you will post something like, how should i take the questions untimed or timed? review used questions or what? and the correlation for the real exam was exactly like those lasts exams i took on UW.

plus my wife also used a little bit for step 1 and step 2 and got wonderful results too.įirst let me put about my experience with UW, in both exams i read the kaplan notes just once and started doing UW, at the firsts moments i always got very low scores like 45%,50% but in both i always ended with very good scores like 70% and 68%. Well since everybody got different techniques, and its true that they are many ways to get the same objective, ill post My proved way on how to take the most out of Usmle World, the Qbank, i say proved because i used the same technique for step 1 and step 2, and i thanks God i got good results in both.

Usmle world qbank online