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I received my score last wednesday, this group was of tremendous help during my preparation. Exam Date: 18thDecember 2019. Step 2 CK score: 262 Step 1: 249 ASSESSMENTS: · NBME 7: 19 mistakes (took it 4 months before exam) · UWSA-1: 276 (3 weeks before exam) · UWSA-2: 263 (3 days before exam, couldn’t finish it in time, after attempting the leftover questions I recalculated my score, it was 268) · FREE 120: 90% (took it on the same day with UWSA-2) RESOURCES: · Uworld for Step2 CK (it’s the main resource for step2 CK) · Up To Date · Uworld Step-3 (did only few organ systems) · CMS Forms (did only few forms) · Kaplan OBGYN (did it once in the beginning of preparation) PREPARATION: I started my preparation with Uworld for step2 CK offline. As i was doing my house job during this period so it took me almost 5-6 months to finish 75% of offline Uworld. I didn’t make any notes during this period. Then I bought online subscription and started doing questions ...

"The path from dream to success does exist, may you have the vision to find it, the courage to get onto it and the perseverance to follow it". - Kalpana Chawla. This icing on the cake, a score of 241, tops an unforgettable year of ups and downs for me. It's not a high score and I admit I was a little disappointed with it. But it's my score and with the kind of year I had, it's acceptable. I'm an Indian IMG, in my intern year of MBBS- the toughest year ever. I'm a student at one of the biggest hospitals in the country, with a patient load of thousands per day. So you can imagine that internship was extremely heavy. Earlier in 2019, I went for my 2 electives and also appeared for the CS exam (passed it). So my studies officially started from April 2019. At the beginning it was slow, I was getting acclimated to FA, which is not an easy book to read in the beginning. I supplemented it with videos such as BnB, DIT, Kaplan (Biochemistry is AMAZING than...