So use this resource to increase understanding. But I felt that he didn’t cover a lot of details that are still important to know. He’s a great teacher and does well with explaining concepts. It’s hard for me to quantify how helpful it was. I used Pathoma during most of second year and liked it. It simply isn’t as good of a question bank. I tried it after I already had a lot of exposure to UW, so maybe that’s why. The UW self-assessments are also very nice. I don’t feel much need to talk about UW, since I think everyone agrees that it’s solid. Seriously a very, very good resource especially when started early. I consistently got above average on my class tests and well above average on nationalized shelf exams. I actually used Firecracker as my primary resource for my classes in place of lectures, lecture notes, textbooks, review books etc. I go to a pass/fail school where lectures are mostly optional attendance. I started Firecracker at the very beginning of first year and used it very consistently throughout all my classes. #Usmle practice test vs real score plus#So a big plus for Firecracker is that it is interactive, holds my attention and quizzes me on the things I need most, the whole point of spaced training and adaptive technology. If I went on vacation and didn’t do my daily review for a week and had a bunch of questions pile up, I could spend 5 hours in a day doing questions. Firecracker is more interactive, so I can do a bunch of questions at a time and stay awake and focused. I could fall asleep after trying to read for a few minutes from First Aid. It just didn’t help me much.įirecracker has everything in First Aid and more, is more accurate and is much easier to use. I pretty much stopped using it after that. I went through the entire cardiology, nephrology, heme/onc chapters along with my classes. I owned a copy of First Aid but didn’t like it much. A distant 3rd were the NBME practice tests. I could probably narrow it down to the 2 most important resources being Gunner Training (now Firecracker) and UW. It is really hard to say what one resource was most useful for me. Nothing really stood out to me as being more heavily emphasized. But each exam is different so I don’t think there’s use in saying what specific topics to focus on. For the test specifically, I don’t remember too many specifics other than a few questions asking about cutaneous innervation for certain areas. 266” is a Firecracker Student Author/Editor. 266 posted his experience on Student Doctor Network, and we cut and pasted it below.ĭisclaimer: “Mr. Here’s what he got in the mail from the USMLE: One Firecracker did all this and more! You can read about his experience preparing for USMLE Step 1 below. Firecrackers report “ridiculously high” USMLE scores all the time, but most don’t share exactly what resources they used, how they used them, when they started using them, or what their NBME practice test scores were leading up to the big day.
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