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I’m Mohammed Qussay Al-Sabbagh, a 6th -year medical student at the University of Jordan, and I have recieved my Step 1 results a few days ago, which’s turned out to be 263, Alhamdulillah! Thus, I have decided to note down and share my experience, as I found reading others’ experiences very useful to me… This experience documentation will be divided into three sections; general take home messages, my USMLE step 1 journey, and my studying sources. I. Big misconceptions “Just because everybody does it, doesn't make it right” In this section, I’ll present some big misconceptions about Step 1 preparation, which drives students to be needlessly worried, rendering them unefficeintly anxious and distressed at all times. Before starting, ALWAYS REMEMEBR that there exists no schedule or technique that fits all kinds of medical students, which calls for the creation of your own personal approaches according to your own capabilities which no one knows for exact except for yourself! Misconc

Hello guys, I want to share my experience as a gratitude for all the people that shared their step 1 journey before .For me all the stories posted in this group gave me strength to continue and became my guidelines in a process from I didn’t know anything about.  Started with Kaplan lecture notes except for pathology. Then I watched all Kaplan 2014 videos except for pathology. Then I did Pathoma and gave my first FA read along with DIT videos, it made it easier to digest the book. Then I solved Usmle Rx and jumped straight to Uworld , first pass timed random mode score 62 % and after that I made it second time 85%. I felt confident with the knowledge I had but not with my test taking skills because I made online nbme 15 with a score of 213 and a lot of silly mistakes so I decided to do Kaplan qbank timed random mode( score 77%). I felt is very strong in anatomy and physiology concepts. After that I started to make more nbmes and I realize that my weakness was test taking skills an

Hello. This is my step 1 experience. Real deal: 256 NBME16: 238 - 4 months before exam UWSA 1: 264 - 3 days before exam  UWSA 2: 244 - 3 days before exam NBME18: 247 - 2 days before exam Free 120 sample: 89% night of exam Exam done on June 10th, results July 10th. Preparation time: 11 months I'm a second year internal medicine resident; I am from Jordan and graduated in 2016. The exam level was easy-mid; most of the questions were from FA. UW also covered almost every concept. The questions were very similar to those in NBME18 and Free120. I thought they were easier than UW questions, however question stems were relatively long. Preparation: 11 months - average of 5 hours per day (I have a full time job) Last 10 days I managed to do 10 hours per day. I started with FA which took me about 6 months. Some subjects were difficult and required more time than others (e.g: biochemistry and genetics) After that I did UWorld one run (timed, random) and got 81% correc