USMLE Step 1 / COMLEX 1 - High Yield Concepts

The two times I had repeated wrong questions once by accident, and once by curiosity , I found that since I was using Anki, I could remember not only what the right answer was, but also what the flaw in my reasoning had been when I first saw the question. And while I may have improved my knowledge slightly by repeating the question, I found that I learned much less in 30 minutes of work than if I had simply done 30 minutes of the Kaplan QBank.

Fiction, although if you plan on only completing a single QBank once, then I would recommend using UWorld. This is an example of good advice that has gotten mangled by our over-anxious medical student minds. Everyone likes to see a positive trend on their NBME exams , and so when we see our NBME exams going up after doing 20 blocks of UWorld questions, we think that our scores will go up an equal or greater amount if we do 20 blocks more. This may be true to an extent, but we tend to forget the diminishing marginal returns.

Why is there such a difference? The first group often feels that the exam is simply a test of facts, facts that they will accumulate by doing UWorld questions over and over while reading through First Aid until they fall asleep with drool running down the pages. They recognize that memorization itself is insufficient — they must learn how to apply that knowledge to interpret the test questions correctly.

The latter group sees the QBank merely as a means to an end, a practice ground to hone their reasoning skills for the day of the test , and in my experience as a USMLE tutor, this group tends to do much better. Again, like many of these pieces of dogma, the answer will depend on what you believe the test to be. If you believe it to be a test of knowledge, then doing UWorld right before your exam may or may not be as important. While I am sure there is going to be disagreement, my goal with this blog post was to challenge the dogma surrounding the use of UWorld.

While it is no doubt an extremely useful question bank, it is by no means the holy grail of USMLE Step 1 preparation as it is so often held to be. Ultimately, your preparations and how you use these resources will depend on what you believe the test to be about, and what you believe it takes to get a high score. You are free to disagree and I welcome your thoughts in the comments! Click here to learn more about the customized Step 1 Anki deck , including high-yield facts along with a growing list of explanations for some of the most difficult-to-understand Step 1 concepts.

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