Thread: Post your grades here

You can do it as a guess if you dont want people to know your grade, passing or failing please share your grade like this:


Test Date: Sept 18th
Score reported: Oct 11th
Date recieved: Oct 17th

nbme 1 (4 weeks out): 390/190
nbme 2 (2 weeks out): 460/209
nbme 4 (1 week out): 450/206
Kaplan Qbank: overall 62% (last 350 q's 68%)
Usmle CD (two days before): 68%


USMLE STEP ONE SCORE: 215/87

If you have tips you could also includ them here.

Originally Posted by deepwater

Excellent score! What was your secret (ie: study strategy)?

I started CK soon after Step 1 so that was quite helpful. Took about 3 months to read through Kaplan Lecture Notes once along with videos. UW Qbank one time through during that time and then repeated marked questions the last two weeks (had about 1200 marked lol).

No other resource used. I think if your foundations are solid, the above is quite enough. Add another Qbank if you must, rather than another book.

Hi CitizenIMG,

I know this was posted a long time ago. But Wanted to Say Great Job.... I am studying for 2CK right now give me a lot of hope.....

Great that you Matched into Psychiatry as well....

Best of Luck CitizenIMG

great job guys im planning to start with step 2 soon u gave me hopes

Took the exam on July 24, 2012. It felt a lot more difficult than any nbme or uwsa. Not very many easy questions. Everything was so vague. I felt quite confident walking into the exam but feeling quite the opposite walking out. It was full of ob/gyn and peds. A good amount of stats also. Do not forget to review stats. Questions are long; longer than uworld. Those drug ads were crazy!


Nbme 3- 220
Nbme 4- 230
uwsa- 224
uworld avg first round- 62%, 2nd round- 81%

Used mtb step 2 for medicine and mtb step 3 for everything else. Skimmed through secrets once.

Step 1 score was 237
Step 2 ck = 239
Good luck to all still studying.