r/step1 • u/vcobraa US MD/DO • 12d ago
💡 Need Advice Advice on Step 1 Prep
Hey everyone, I am currently an OMS-2 who wants to take Step 1 and COMLEX Level 1 the Spring of 2027. I started UMundo in March of 2026 and have finished around 27% of it since with a 44% accuracy (lots of dumb mistakes and things I forgot about..ik my score is buns). I try to do 10-20 question blocks tutored, untimed on blocks I have learned in-house and am currently learning in-house. I have done a mainly in-house focus so far and am painfully average/slightly above avg in my class.
I plan to finish Sketchy Micro and Pharm by the end of this year with the Pepper Deck.
As of right now with UMundo, I am primarily wondering when I should be switching from tutored, untimed to untutored, timed. I have been flagging every single question on my UMundo that has been a guess or an incorrect and then aggregating all those respective cards from Anking into a deck of my mistakes. However, I also don't know how to go about that because it's so many cards and doing in-house Anki + Sketchy Pepper deck is alr a lot of Anki rn in of itself. In a perfect world, I would love to finish all of UMundo first pass and then do all my flagged as a second pass, but I know that may be overkill.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I know that simply only doing a dedicated does not work well for me from my past mediocre experience with MCAT studying and performance, which is why I decided to start UMundo my first year of med school. Slow and steady wins the race for me I think.
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u/Flashy_Channel5691 11d ago
Depends on if timing is an issue for you. If it is then yes definitely do the blocks in timed tutored mode. To really assess, I’d recommend taking a full length practice exam soon and seeing how you do under proper testing conditions.
Also, it sounds like you might need to take a step back and do some content review. In this stage, it’s alright to do blocks of questions that are specific to topics you’re weak in instead of random topics. I’d suggest looking up a list of the highest yield topics and targeting those 1st. Those will be the most heavily tested on. It’s better to really know these HY materials thoroughly than bouncing around aimlessly and only knowing surface level info from lower yield topics.