How to Increase score on USMLE Step 1 Experience. I am a graduate of 2. I prepared for USMLE for around 3 years. I gave my test in 2. I was an average student and hence my medical school performance has no relation to USMLE score. USMLE is a different beast and has to be targeted differently. First read 1. 0 months Kaplan USMLE Step 1 Lecture Notes First Aid for USMLE Step 1 Fundamentals of Pathology Hussein Sattar PathomaLike all people I did Kaplan USMLE Step 1 Lecture Notes and Lecture videos. Boring and tiring. After it was over I finished FA once and revised both. SHF3LGRF0r4F_o0iUyhcYiNMw9gxCpQYO6qKY-pZIiU3547CkKHoJb2RcDNudog=h1080' alt='Kaplan Qbank Step 3' title='Kaplan Qbank Step 3' />After this I gave my first NBME exam. I scored not so well. I got 1. 62 correct offline out of 2. I use the 1. 4 formula and I got 2. Savings with 50 Kaplan promo codes and coupon codes November 2017. Todays top Kaplan discount 200 Off MCAT, LSAT, GRE And GMAT Courses. Blog. USMLE World Is Your Strategy Wrong And How I Scored 270 on Step 1 By Ignoring The Dogma. I was not too happy but atleast u know I passed and didnt flunk the test. I found Kaplan to be not so good in many aspects like Anatomy, Physiology, Behavioural science. I also did pathoma here. Daugherty does good job in teaching Behaviural but the way to go is MCQ based training. I/51cpP1gtMdL._SR600%2C315_PIWhiteStrip%2CBottomLeft%2C0%2C35_PIAmznPrime%2CBottomLeft%2C0%2C-5_PIStarRatingFOUR%2CBottomLeft%2C360%2C-6_SR600%2C315_ZA(24%20Reviews)%2C445%2C286%2C400%2C400%2Carial%2C12%2C4%2C0%2C0%2C5_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg' alt='Kaplan Qbank Step 3' title='Kaplan Qbank Step 3' />That was lacking in Kaplan Behav. Anyway I took a small break of 5 days and re started with second read. Second read 6 months First read material 3 subject BRS UW few things here and there and lot of help from Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim and Jimmy Wales lolz. I did few extra things now and focused primarily on FA. I tried picmonic and Sketchy for some stuff. Didnt work well. Those things help u memorize but not understand. I dont recommend. I did BRS Gross Anatomy, BRS Physiology and BRS Behavioural Science. These 3 helped a lot as they have 5. MCQs each. few 1. BRS stands for Board Review Series. Kaplan Qbank Step 3' title='Kaplan Qbank Step 3' />These 3 books are very VERY helpful for their respective subjects. Check out BRS Gross Anatomy, BRS Physiology, BRS Behavioural Science. I then did UW with FA end to end with understanding. What I did was anything I dont understand in these resources I would google or see youtube videos or wiki. This is very helpful as multiple sources to understand a concept is always better than 1. In the end memorize only 1 resource but use many for understanding stuff. I gave NBME 1. 6 after this as I was fairly confident and also it was most predictive. I gave it online and got 2. Third read 4 months TOTAL MEMORIZATION NBMEs. I did everything once more and this time I went for full fledged memorization and I also used to give 1 NBME per like 2 weeks or so. In this way I finished all NBMEs except 1. This is was very valuable as searching NBME explanation was tough in online forums and answer keys are unbelievably wrong many times. See early NBMEs one of them has a tubular adenoma question. It is wrongly marked in older NBMEs. NBME 1. 7 same question is there and that one I got wrong because I had memorized the older answer. What I mean is. i memorized older NBME and then I did newer NBMEs and the older one gave me an answer by student created answer key which I just memorized but when same exact question was in newer NBME and I ticked that option and found that was wrong. Later I found it is tubular adenoma. Dont expect to do all NBME on one day or even just 1 week and get benefit. It is stupidity to think so. You are giving months for UW a privately created QBank but NBME which is like 2. USMLE organization itself. Dont be fooled. This is very important. I put lot of questions on USMLE forum and got answers. It is very helpful. Also see other websites to find answer. After this I gave NBME 1. I mentioned I had left. I got high 2. 60s. I decided to do it all one last time and prepared one last month and took NBME 1. Got 2. 70s. Was  VERY pleased. Took exam in 9 days after it. Last week I did First Aid USMLE Step 1 and UW only explanations part. Didnt care how much m retaining or not. Sample Spring Batch Program. Just memorized it. Finally 2 days out I did the formulae of biostat and pharmacy. I did lyso disease,few drugs and other memorization topics. Closed books and just relaxed last day. D Plants here. This is important as u have to be well relaxed into the test. Cant be fatigued and all. You have to be on top of your game. Day before test I had few midnight awaking but slept around 8 hours so was enough. Test I had taken my food stuffs with me. I took breaks like following 2 blocks 1. I had extra break time. Its not an issue. Test was good. my preps were good. I was hoping to break above 2. I wish I had. but I couldnt. I will try then. p. As far as the test is concerned Anatomy was heavy. Biochem was light. Immuno and Molecular biology were complex. Pathology was all over the place. Thats all I can say as I dont want issues with NBME about disclosing info. But basically do First Aid for USMLE Step 1 NBME UW and it covers most. BRS are also good. Kaplan also okish. Brief ending note on when to give exam I changed my exam date many times and gave it only when I was confident. There is no shame in changing date. If you feel shame in changing date. DO actually give exam and score badly. Its a one shot exam. I know many people who scored in 2. Better to take few months more and get 1. PD will be ok with 4 months later giving exam but will think 5 times before giving 2. Just make sure you give your 1. Do well and god bless. Resources Used Kaplan USMLE Step 1 Lecture Notes First Aid for USMLE Step 1 Fundamentals of Pathology Hussein Sattar Pathoma BRS Gross Anatomy BRS Physiology BRS Behavioural Science. Related. September 3. Tao Le, Vikas Bhushan 9. Amazon. com Books.