There needs to be a sticky made that tells people to screw the other qbanks, hit UW, and hit it everyday until your eyes bleed.

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this is trully inspirational, thank you for taking the time to post this. I wanted to ask you if the Notes that Goljan gives in kaplan classes is the same as his rapid review pathology book?

the new rapid review is all of the notes that he gives in class and plus much more in depth info as well as the slides and alot of questions with answers.
He told me himself that he wrote this book so people wouldnt be looking for that stuff that's floating on the internet. Because that book is as complete as his notes can ever be. Plus you can't go wrong because it's got slides and only costs 35 bucks I think.

congratulations on your exam!=)

by the way, where coulld I buy this new Goljan notes? =)

Buy the book, as explained in the post above yours.

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I used to pray and pray for a bike and never got one. Later I learned that God doesn't work that way... so I went out and stole a bike and asked God for forgiveness.

I'm just going to sit out on a limb here, you don't NEED goljan. It's great, it really is. But if you already have BRS, First Aid and Kaplan, you don't NEED Goljan. Seriously, almost everyone I've talked to lately says path is become less and less stressed. Either that, or because everyone prepares up the wazoo for it, you don't take much notice.

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Hope that limb don't break, pardner

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I used to pray and pray for a bike and never got one. Later I learned that God doesn't work that way... so I went out and stole a bike and asked God for forgiveness.

Thats a really good idea

People now days are UW UW UW UW UW UW UW UW and if you have some extra time left you can hit UW again

I have seen people raise at least 40 NBME points in one month only using UW and FA.

And with UW it seems that the rule that if you score more than 55% cum, you will pass is correct, I havent read or seen nobody that have score that and fail the test. Now in low 50's is a different story

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Congratulations on Passing !!!

Now for a question

What do you guys think?

Regarding Qbank (eg. USMLEWorld, Kaplan) scores being an indication of doing well on Step 1 - do your scores doing the Qbanks the second time around mean anything? I mean if you do USMLEWORLD the first time and get terrible scores but do it again after studying the answers and get decent scores is that indicative that you learned material you had to and you'll be okay or just that you remembered answers and that it doesn't mean anything?

One of the reasons I'm asking this is because I was wondering whether starting USMLEWorld even without finishing studying properly would "waste" the qbank as a valuable resource and indicator of doing well on step 1. Seeing how important you guys think it is I'm tempted to start it ASAP.

I ask them and this is what they told me:
The cumulative performance gives the entire performance and does not
distinguish between first or subsequent attempts.

The first % is more reliable as it gives you an indication about where
you\stand. If your cum performance later increases to 70% it might be due
to familiarity with the question and hence might not be accurate.

Yes. If you repeat a block of used questions then the performance is
counted towards the cumulative performance.

The best way to go through the QBank and measure your performance is to
go through all the unused questions first. That will give you an idea
about where you stand in terms of preparation and identifying the
subjects you might be weak in.

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