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How to Analyze & Review an NBME | #USMLE Step 1 & 2 CK (part 2)

Rahul Damania, MD

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Method for reviewing an NBME practice exam, part 2.

12 comments from Reddit

  • @lovecats1013 · 2024-08 · in “SCORE RELEASED THREAD 08/07/2024 (August 7, 2024)”

    …and reviewing the document every single night. I would review lets say the nbme 10 tab on monday night, the cms med and surg tab on Tuesday etc. I made a tab for medicine cms, peds cms, surg cms etc and individual tabs for each nbme exam. This allowed me see how a single concept could be tested in multiple ways. I followed hyguru way of reviewing nbme/ cms forms, he used notion but I used google sheets. ▶ link

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  • @campie52 · 2023-09 · in “Passed Step 1 after failing my 1st attempt”

    This time around I dedicated this method to reviewing my incorrect: ▶ link I also added another column about what I needed to go over to cover a topic on questions I missed whether it be specific sketchys, BB, Pathoma Chapters or If I just needed to do a block of 40 specific questions on a topic. Doing this I visualized how many questions I was getting wrong per topic and would do a dedicated week of studying "guided…

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  • @AcquaPanini · 2023-05 · in “How to review an nbme”

    Good video from HYGuru on how to review NBMEs! It does take me much longer than he says and I just format mine on a google sheet but has helped me notice patterns in terms of if the issue is that I just didn't know the content or if I couldn't really understand WHAT the question was asking. I feel like half of tackling CBSE is trying to understand what the heck the questions even wants. ▶ link

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  • @hyguruprep · 2023-01 · in “writing step in 3 weeks but feeling so stupid”

    Hi! I would say that you should really utilize the custom UW questions underneath my course and then do mixed blocks of questions! I would then build momentum and take NBMEs and utilize a systematic method - ▶ link to review the core concepts! ​ Hope this helps! Switch from passive to active learning!!

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  • @hyguruprep · 2022-12 · in “Hello so I failed step 1”

    …regroup you should take 2 NBMEs per week in a mixed timed test mode (one online and one offline). This breaks down any performance anxiety, and also helps you get comfortable with the NBME questions that are a bit 'different.' * Have a ▶ systematic approach to reviewing an NBME because it is these concepts that you can then hone in with AMBOSS more. Hope this helps & I am confident that a bit more active & intent…

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  • @hyguruprep · 2022-11 · in “DOUBT IN NBME”

    Here's a video to help: ▶ link

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