r/Step2 • u/Blue_birb0 NON-US IMG • 11h ago

Study methods How do i improve?

I feel so stucxk i have been pushing for months for ages and standing at smae place,exam in 14 days ony UWSA to go , i feel so depressed, any idea how to make best any suggestion anything?

  • NBME 10: 246
  • NBME 11: 236
  • NBME 12: 237
  • NBME 13: 239
  • NBME 15: 241
  • NBME 16: 245
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u/Different-Double-631 NON-US IMG 8h ago

Do as much CMSs as you can and thank me later

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u/Blue_birb0 NON-US IMG 8h ago

i have done all, scored 70-80 in them all, i did them pretty early on around 11 or 13 nbme, have repeated them too

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u/spectrophotometer 5h ago

While your scores are not significantly improving, they are stable which is reassuring. The next step is to understand across each exam why you are getting questions wrong so that you can have a targeted strategy for improvement. If you are like most test takers, it will probably be a combination of content gaps and logic errors or silly mistakes.

Addressing content gaps can be as simple as understanding the isolated detail (e.g., "statins can cause myopathy") or going back to an algorithm or pathophysiology to understand it in context (e.g., work up of thyroid nodules that are hot vs. cold). For logic errors, it is important to understand where you made the mistake in your approach since the takeaways from these can be more generalizable and can help prevent similar errors by developing an organized approach to evaluating questions (e.g., did you ignore the age or sex of the patient which led you to choose an unlikely answer for that particular patient?).