let me know where you at and we can look at it together, hotdog. i have a ton of stuff i could give you too

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Uhh nooo... mines ain't sticky like yours.

Just a few of the pages are stuck together, the ones with the pics of the diseases. Those pages are printed on picture paper... so, you know...

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sorry babe, i have a gf already... i don't want that vaginalis parasite neither

i was lucky that th i hated biochem, most of it came back to me after some review from kaplan book, lipincott, and FA and also doing lots of questions


my version of the exam had lotsa histo and anatomy! and it wasnt histo integrated into path, it was straight up histo and no way you could have studied it , it was either you remember it form 1st term or not.

sample qs were, where in the kidney can you find the thin ascnding limb of the nephron...ans choices including cortex, inner medulla, outer medulla, and some other stuff.

what is the mature subsatnce of adult bone. ans choice inc Ca, PO4, vit D, osteoid, and hydroxyapetite


you get the point...they are very picky and detailed on the histo qs i got

bah im in first term and i already forgot those

For those of you who took step 1, do you feel it is worth the time to invest in an actual book/reference to study histology? I feel I keep hearing from numerous recent test takers that Histo is being more heavily tested, along with anatomy. I'm on the verge of making my schedule for the summer and I'm teetering on whether I should try and squeeze in a quick chapter from eg. Rapid Review anatomy and/or histo for each system of the body before hitting the physio,path, and pharm hard for each of them...I know I keep harping on this histo thing - it just seems like they could potentially be easy points if it is reviewed - i just don't want to go overboard with it though....also would you say FA is sufficient for behavioral (stats and epi and ethics) and psych?

Thanks for the input - just trying to get my head straight before I take a dive into it in 3 weeks...

I will try to help out as best I can. I got a solid 99 on step 1 and was not a 4.0 student (nowhere near!). I absolutely agree with the last 5 days being the most crucial, 'where the men are made and the boys are broken'.

I put in 4 weeks of SOLID studying. I moved out to the boondocks where I was the only non-white person in a 30 mile radius, dairy farmers still milked by hand, and barns scattered the landscape. This prevented me from socializing with my friends or making any new ones for that matter. While there, I worked out almost every day (bench pressed 365 lbs while there ). For fun, I went to Walmart and marvelled in how much I could buy for five bucks.

I used a modified Penn method to cater to my weakness (penn method posted below).

In summary, here is what I did:
1st 3 weeks: went through the Kaplan books thoroughly. Did UW questions corresponding to the subject matter. I thought MMRS was the best for micro, BRS was the best for Path, and Kaplan was the best for the rest.
Last week: holy crap, I don't know how to describe this. I went throught FA 2-2.5x during this last week. I think this got me the meat of my scores. I didn't have the time to reread Kaplan, but I did look at the high yield tables. I don't know how I managed to survive this last week...my body just shut down for a week after.


PENN METHOD:
subject readings from these sources only). Spend the extra time to do tons of questions (the more questions the better).

Thanks for the wonderful tips!

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Thanks for the advice basurpan....congrats on your 99...that's damn awesome....I will be taking a similar path you took in terms of preparing, with a few minor tweaks here and there regarding a few different sources I am comfortable using. So you really only put in 4 weeks of solid studying??? What did the other 3-4 weks consist of??