At the same time I was mixing in Pathoma, SketchyPharm, Picmonic, Anki cards, Goljan (audio only) and a UWorld block with every subject I covered. Thank god for DIT, I wouldnвЂ™t have finished the First Aid material without it. I couldnвЂ™t even come close to matching other peopleвЂ™s study pace (both my classmates and people on the medical student forums) and I thought this was going to leave me absolutely screwed.ДЄfter struggling to read First Aid which was taking quite literally 10x as long as it was supposed to (according to every other students study schedule I saw, and based on the вЂњaverage student speedвЂќ for First Aid listed on Cram Fighter), I started using Doctors in Training. My god I was stressed out during those first 2 weeks. Then afterwards I tried doing my first few UWorld blocks which would take me 6-8 hours each. (If you ever want to feel stressed out go on those forumsвЂ¦ though they do offer some good advice sometimes.) I thought it was only going to take 10 hours to get through Sketchy Micro because thatвЂ™s what someone said they did on one of those med forums. What ACTUALLY happened was that it took me about week and a half to get through Sketchy Micro because I would spend 20-30 minutes per video to write down every last detail they said in the video. My original plan was to get through all of SketchyMicro in like 2-3 days, finish SketchyPham in the same amount of time, get through First Aid in 2 weeks, and then do UWorld in 2 weeks and then do one week of review for a total of 6 weeks. I naturally am slow and intense with my studyingвЂ¦ as such when other people could get through first aid in 2 weeks, it took me 6 weeks. I did NOT stay on schedule as I 1) gave myself too many materials to study and 2) I studied about 3x slower than I needed to. Starting with 180-200 you can probably get 230-250.

Still, IвЂ™m very proud of having jumped 53 points in a short period.ДЇor those without context, starting with a 230 before your dedicated study period can probably get you to the 240-270 range in the dedicated period. Even though thatвЂ™s a very solid score I still feel like I wish I had prepared more during the year to break the 250 mark. I figured I should write about it now while itвЂ™s still fresh.ДЇor what itвЂ™s worth I got 243 and 249 on my last two practice tests (taken 2 weeks and 6 days before respectively), got 243 on the real thing, and I started with a 190 before the dedicated study period. I just took Step 1 yesterday after studying for 8 weeks.

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