Anonymous
05-31-2003, 08:48 AM
Hi folks
Finally I took step1 today(in our time is actually yesterday!).was very similar to many other exams which I had read as experiences on this board.More dominant pathology,pathophysiology and physiology.majority of physiology Qs presented as a graph that probably u won't find in any review book and just if u get the concept in depth u can answer them.Many CV,Res,renal physiology.Pharmacology ,I got a lot of experimental studies on dif drugs,know ANS pharmacology well(Katzung-trevor),other parts of pharmacology werenot tough(more on DOC and MOA and a few on side effects).renin angiotensin sys had a lot of Qs on exam which I was surprised,I can say on each block I got some Qs on this topic.Anatomy,around 5-6 Qs /block more on gross anatomy,some on neuro and just 2-3 on emryo.Neuro Qs more on CT and angio and section but werenot that difficult(I didn't answer well to those but I expected worse).Anatomy Qs were mainly on typical nerve lesions and their motor and sensory innervation.Micro ,more on bacteria and viruses than about fungi or parasites,not very difficult.**,mainly on Dr-patient relationship then on ethics,0ne on infant development,2-3 personality dis,some DSM4 ,.... I got lots of ** Qs ,I can say about 7-10 on each block.Biochemistry,both Qs on dis like glycogen storage,mucopolysach..,lysosomal storage dis which I answered them so poor because I couldn't review them close to exam,,also Qs on enzymes mainly on regulatory and rate limiting enzymes of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis and.... I got considerable number of biochem Qs.
Mol bio ,not very weired,mainly on transcription and translation processes.Genetic,I got 7-8 Qs on genetic totaly that werenot easy but I did well ! on some of them just u should knew the pattern of inheritance(I mean for example a clinical case of a dis and then ask about the pattern of inheritance w/o any pedigree!),also some pedigree,one maternal mitochondrial inheritance,one Q about imprinting!,...
Immunology,just a few Qs,mainly asking some unfamiliar and experimental Qs about some basic concepts,one about IL2 and one or 2 about immunodef dis.
About study materials: Plz at first consider those which r proper for u,I mean u should choose the materials based on ur time,ur backgrounds,ur weakpoints,,,, there isnot any unique prescription for all.But also there r some good and known resources.What I did ,I studied about 4 months fulltime in back home mainly A ranked books(not all of them) then I had an interupt(preparing to come to US and the first months of arrival),again I started this time mainly with kaplan notes and I studied about 6 months(totally 10 months)while I work.I got off last week of exam.I tried to take Q bank and doing it's Qs two times!!! but I couldn't!! the first time I could just finish about 30% of it and in second time(close to exam)I just took **,pharmaco and some of the genetics,mol bio patho,totally less than 500 Qs!! Also I got some whole blocks to evaluate myself.I got 74% on usmle CD about 3months before the exam,about 68% on second block of usmle CD about 1.5 month before the exam and 80% about one month before(If I don't mix the times up).2 weeks before the exam I got around 80% on Qbank.Totally I didn't take many Qs,mainly I emphasised on review instead of doing Qs,if u wanna rely on doing Qs then I suggest u to take many many many Qs,,I mean take one of these 2:1-manily doing review with a few Qs to be familiar to how u can apply ur knowlege on QS 2-if u wanna rely on Qs instead of review then u should do a lot of them like Qbook,Qbank,BSS,.... I used dif books for preparation that will be a boring and long list if I wanna mention them and I think u know most of them.But totally I can say kaplan notes r the best and if u know them completely,for sure u can pass with a very good score(I didn't read all of them).
Regarding time and overall difficulty of Qs :like many other test takers,I got 2 block with simple Qs and 2 blocks full of experimental and odd Qs,the other 3 blocks were on average,in general time isnot a big issue,on that 2 difficult blocks I could not review my marked Qs,in other blocks I had enough time to review all marked Qs easily.U know this isnot a predictable exam,I mean I expect to pass but I don't know anything more regarding to my score.
Any q welcome.
I got many things of this forum,I wanna thank all of u and I remember some names,Orbit,regulator,ME,Wiz,saima,FAN,Karren,Kerr i,U,Lamia,alina,genir,mle2003,ra,knicknacks,doctap eppa,saili,uuu,nasdaf,BHAI,spongebob,NIB,monztree, CA,tachycardia,Fatima,nice girl,sonia,kateryna,daniel,savisam,sq,sergey,am,je ff,Nilesh,David,delna,taro bapp,magdel,911,usmleplaya,moveon,img94,SoftEngr,s eason!!,Bhutta,usmlebank,lizzie,all viruses on forum!, and many others whose names r not in my mind right now,plz excuse me if forgot to mention ur name.
Let me get my score ,then probably I can tell u more helpfull things about the exam.
Best of luck to all u gr8 guys
Finally I took step1 today(in our time is actually yesterday!).was very similar to many other exams which I had read as experiences on this board.More dominant pathology,pathophysiology and physiology.majority of physiology Qs presented as a graph that probably u won't find in any review book and just if u get the concept in depth u can answer them.Many CV,Res,renal physiology.Pharmacology ,I got a lot of experimental studies on dif drugs,know ANS pharmacology well(Katzung-trevor),other parts of pharmacology werenot tough(more on DOC and MOA and a few on side effects).renin angiotensin sys had a lot of Qs on exam which I was surprised,I can say on each block I got some Qs on this topic.Anatomy,around 5-6 Qs /block more on gross anatomy,some on neuro and just 2-3 on emryo.Neuro Qs more on CT and angio and section but werenot that difficult(I didn't answer well to those but I expected worse).Anatomy Qs were mainly on typical nerve lesions and their motor and sensory innervation.Micro ,more on bacteria and viruses than about fungi or parasites,not very difficult.**,mainly on Dr-patient relationship then on ethics,0ne on infant development,2-3 personality dis,some DSM4 ,.... I got lots of ** Qs ,I can say about 7-10 on each block.Biochemistry,both Qs on dis like glycogen storage,mucopolysach..,lysosomal storage dis which I answered them so poor because I couldn't review them close to exam,,also Qs on enzymes mainly on regulatory and rate limiting enzymes of glycolysis and gluconeogenesis and.... I got considerable number of biochem Qs.
Mol bio ,not very weired,mainly on transcription and translation processes.Genetic,I got 7-8 Qs on genetic totaly that werenot easy but I did well ! on some of them just u should knew the pattern of inheritance(I mean for example a clinical case of a dis and then ask about the pattern of inheritance w/o any pedigree!),also some pedigree,one maternal mitochondrial inheritance,one Q about imprinting!,...
Immunology,just a few Qs,mainly asking some unfamiliar and experimental Qs about some basic concepts,one about IL2 and one or 2 about immunodef dis.
About study materials: Plz at first consider those which r proper for u,I mean u should choose the materials based on ur time,ur backgrounds,ur weakpoints,,,, there isnot any unique prescription for all.But also there r some good and known resources.What I did ,I studied about 4 months fulltime in back home mainly A ranked books(not all of them) then I had an interupt(preparing to come to US and the first months of arrival),again I started this time mainly with kaplan notes and I studied about 6 months(totally 10 months)while I work.I got off last week of exam.I tried to take Q bank and doing it's Qs two times!!! but I couldn't!! the first time I could just finish about 30% of it and in second time(close to exam)I just took **,pharmaco and some of the genetics,mol bio patho,totally less than 500 Qs!! Also I got some whole blocks to evaluate myself.I got 74% on usmle CD about 3months before the exam,about 68% on second block of usmle CD about 1.5 month before the exam and 80% about one month before(If I don't mix the times up).2 weeks before the exam I got around 80% on Qbank.Totally I didn't take many Qs,mainly I emphasised on review instead of doing Qs,if u wanna rely on doing Qs then I suggest u to take many many many Qs,,I mean take one of these 2:1-manily doing review with a few Qs to be familiar to how u can apply ur knowlege on QS 2-if u wanna rely on Qs instead of review then u should do a lot of them like Qbook,Qbank,BSS,.... I used dif books for preparation that will be a boring and long list if I wanna mention them and I think u know most of them.But totally I can say kaplan notes r the best and if u know them completely,for sure u can pass with a very good score(I didn't read all of them).
Regarding time and overall difficulty of Qs :like many other test takers,I got 2 block with simple Qs and 2 blocks full of experimental and odd Qs,the other 3 blocks were on average,in general time isnot a big issue,on that 2 difficult blocks I could not review my marked Qs,in other blocks I had enough time to review all marked Qs easily.U know this isnot a predictable exam,I mean I expect to pass but I don't know anything more regarding to my score.
Any q welcome.
I got many things of this forum,I wanna thank all of u and I remember some names,Orbit,regulator,ME,Wiz,saima,FAN,Karren,Kerr i,U,Lamia,alina,genir,mle2003,ra,knicknacks,doctap eppa,saili,uuu,nasdaf,BHAI,spongebob,NIB,monztree, CA,tachycardia,Fatima,nice girl,sonia,kateryna,daniel,savisam,sq,sergey,am,je ff,Nilesh,David,delna,taro bapp,magdel,911,usmleplaya,moveon,img94,SoftEngr,s eason!!,Bhutta,usmlebank,lizzie,all viruses on forum!, and many others whose names r not in my mind right now,plz excuse me if forgot to mention ur name.
Let me get my score ,then probably I can tell u more helpfull things about the exam.
Best of luck to all u gr8 guys