I ended up being 2 weeks out from my exam with only 27% of UW completed and way too far from my goal score. I was trying to memorize every detail my first pass through, and that was the single greatest regret of my first two years of medical school. I got off the train a bit in the beginning because I felt like I needed to read First Aid for all the facts before I could start questions, and it bit me in the behind! I went through FA extremely slow, sometimes taking an entire day to get through half a chapter, not having enough time to even touch/look at any other resource. If I could go back, I would probably have started studying 2-3 months in advance, but hindsight is 20/20. I’m a pretty quick learner and I knew that I had learned the material well during my didactic years, so I didn’t feel like starting before dedicated would’ve been beneficial. Keep in mind, this is what worked for me, and what works for one person may not be what works for you. But I found that studying for this exam is about efficiency and studying smarter, not studying longer. On top of that, the score I got on the school-administered practice exam was just almost passing. This was a source of stress for me when the time came because I started to feel like I wouldn’t be able to achieve my goal with so much less prep time, especially when all my peers could talk about was what they were doing to study. I didn’t start studying for Step or COMLEX 1 until six weeks before my exam date, contrary to popular advice and what most other people did. And here’s me telling you that you can do it too. So here’s mine and just what I did to achieve it. I read success stories every night when I felt hopeless and it helped me hold onto the hope that I, too, could be a success story. I’m writing this because reading these kinds of posts was literally the only thing that got me through studying.
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