How I scored 277 (100th percentile) on the USMLE Step 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ย. 2021
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Resources: Pathoma, SketchyMicro, Qbanks, Anking
Self-assessment scores:
NBME 15: 252 (1.5 years out)
NBME 16: 250
NBME 17: 255
NBME 18: 273 (7 months out)
NBME 19: 261 (1 year out)
NBME 20: 257 (6 months out)
NBME 21: 265 (beginning of dedicated/2 months out)
NBME 22: 277 (4 mistakes)
NBME 23: 268 (10 mistakes)
NBME 24: 270 (8 mistakes)
NBME 25: 270 (7 mistakes)
NBME 26: 274 (5 mistakes)
NBME 27: 277 (3 mistakes)
NBME 28: 275 (4 mistakes)
NBME 29: 275 (4 mistakes)
NBME 30: 279 (1 mistake)
As you can see, the NBMEs are also super predictive, especially the new ones.
Free 120: 96%
AMBOSS self assessment: 266 (about 9 months out).
UWorld 1st pass: 95%
UWorld 2nd pass: 100% (11 mistakes)
UWSA1: 283 (6 mistakes)
UWSA2: 283 (4 mistakes)
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Amazing work! You deserve it, great job!!🥳❤💪🏻
Inspiring! too much hardwork must bring you to the top
انجاز عظيم يا يوسف وده اللي متعودينه منك ..انك دايما متفوق ومتميز و مجتهد ومحترم ودايما متقدم في كل شئ....ربنا يحفدك ويباركك ويكمل معاك المشوار اللي بدأه معاك
الف الف مبروك يا افندم و من نجاح لنجاح اكبر ان شاء مع انى معرفش حضرتك بس حاسس بالفخر كده
الف مبروك ي يوسف ومن نجاح لنجاح وبالتوفيق ليك ديما
طلب بسيط بس لو ينفع تنزل المصادر اللي كنت بتذاكر منها في بوست ع الفيس
هيبقا مفيد جدا
Congratulations with great score and best wishes for your future in medical career.
MashaAllah congratulations! 🎉
Thanks very much for sharing this exceptional experience. Good luck on your journey bro god bless ❤️❤️
Congratulations 🎉
Thank you for this! 💫
I think this just goes to show that you're not necessarily gonna burn out or "peak" and then have lower ROIs after studying for a long time. If you're studying the right way, you won't forget stuff and you'll get keep getting better and better
This guy is quite well spoken, hats off. Definitely hard work pays off
Is 277 a good score?🤔
@@MrBjorn6 Too Good ,very few to none people can get that score
@@NUZICASTLE I was being sarcastic when I asked that question 🤣
@@MrBjorn6 🤣🤣
Whoever you are ,i hope you succeed in your struggle with med school, it's difficult as F but let's hope it's worth it
Mashallah! فخر العرب والله
What a beast, baseline 252 1.5 years before starting, jesus, I can only dream of getting that lol
Congratulations I am starting my journey. Wish me luck
Mashaallah keep going 💪🏻💪🏻
thank you for this video
ما شاء الله الف مبروك
شهر و هتكون الذكرى السنوية الأولى لأعلى سكور بالعالم في step 1 💜
ننتظر step2 score🔥🔥💪 ( بالتوفيق ان شاءالله ي دكتور )
Ps/ لسه معلقين ب ستيب ون ومش قادرة أنجز وامتحن 🥲😓
ماشاء الله عظمه يبني والله ربنا يباركلك
انا شوفت صفحتك ع لب الفيس حاطط صورة ليفربول 2012 لذالك نتا عظيم
مبروك ع ضياع الدوري
All my congradulations! Pleaze can you give us more detail about how you schedule your day between anki, books and Qbank, your exam or even clinical rotations ? how many hours for each? before your dedicated period
م شاء الله 🤍🤍
proud of u
Dr Yusuf u impressed us plz share more vedio🎉🎉
ما شاء الله ربنا يبارك
Congratulations 🎉🎉🏆🏆
Please link anki that you advise
دكتور انا ادرس في الجزائر بالفرنسية احاول ايجاد كورسات هل يمكن تساعدني؟؟؟؟
Congrats on the achievement, How would your prep and resources change with pass/fail decision? would you remove or add any resource?
I'll make a video about this, but for now I would recommend prioritizing NBMEs, AMBOSS, UW. No need for Anki or FA unless you have time.
That's a great interview...you have touched all the details diligently...this is the highest step1 score experience, i came across in past 2 years....
Is there anyone who scored more than him?
I missed the info where u hv mentioned about the real exam similarity with NBMEs?
Which NBMEs you mentioned??
My exam was similar to all the NBMEs in general, but closest to NBME 25 and free 120.
Thank you very much for all this info!! If you don't mind answering, if you remember, I'm on a crunch for time and can only choose a select names from 25-30. Besides 29 and 30, which would you recommend?
25 and 26.
Keep in mind those two may be a bit hard, especially 25 - but my exam difficulty was closest to 25, so I'd recommend doing them.
That's a huge achievement! Congrats. How do you convert your NBME raw number of mistakes into a 3-digit score?
Question banks & Anki decks are the secret studying in general. You have to just do them.
Congratulations on the great achievement, I have a question, how did you study at the university? Did you just read books without doing active recall(if you did how did you that ?did you do after each paragraph you read?
Did you create flash cards for each subject and then review them?(Do you recommend this to use anki in basic)?
Can you please help me because I am really confused and can't play what is the right way
No, unfortunately, I didn't do active recall back then. I was just reading the books and underlining. Nonetheless, I made sure I understood all the important concepts. I only use active learning when studying for the USMLE (through Qbanks and Anki). I did not use Anki for Uni.
What would you recommend for someone with weak foundation for the pass/fail exam?
I am currently doing B&B and Anki but not sure if it's the correct approach.
Hi Yousef, two questions. One, please tell me the Anki deck you are doing for step 2 ck prep. Two, is the strategy going to be the same again like step 1's that is doing a lot of qbanks?
Can someone explain me Anking deck and zanko because I'm get confused if it contains flash cards or you must create your personal ones
I'm just in the first year
Thank you for sharing ! And Mashallah it is an amazing score . Are you an IMG or American medical Student. I am from France and I would like to know If I have to use NBME as a foreign student ? Thanks
I'm an IMG, and absolutely you should use the NBMEs! They're the best resource out there and the exam is most similar to them.
بارك الله فيك ربي يحفظك
سؤال هل التحضير لل USMLE كان له تاثير سلبي على معدلك بالجامعة سنة رابعة وخامسة ؟
بالعكس حيكون كثير ايجابي ومعدل الجامعه مو مهم كثير
Thank you very much! In case of time shortage before test date, can you recommend which nbme are a must to do in terms of importance (in your opinion)?
NBMEs 25-30
All are great. My exam was difficult and NBME 25 was the most difficult out of those 6, so I'd recommend you prioritize it. Also, NBME 25 has the least repeated questions. NBME 26 is also great. You could go in order like I did. Try to do them all.
where can I find these pathoma and sketchy micro-videos ? and the 32K flashcards anking deck ?
Okay so I loved how he gave the little details about his prepration. Also hard work really pays off well. One thing I'd like to ask is , so how many months did you devotedly studied for step-1 ?
And what speciality you wanna go for?
My entire step prep was 1.5 years and my dedicated period was 8.5 weeks.
I'm interested in internal medicine, particularly cardiology and nephrology.
@@YousefTanas okay so how many hours did you study on average per day?
And like didn't you saturated while doing such an extensive study, like what did you do apart from study to decompress and in order to let go of the stress?
I studied for 7-9 hours. Took half a day off every week. In my free time, I played Call of Duty, PES, and watched TH-cam videos. Sometimes I worked out.
@@YousefTanas is half a day enough to keep you away from burnout?
لو ممكن الانكي كاردس يلي استعملتهم؟!
Can you please share your anki settings?
I am med student in Turkey plz go on u help us a lot and as a pre clinic how and which book should start thank u❤
ألف ألف مبارك يا دكتور ، كيف توازن بين الكلية و المعادلة خاصة مع الكويزات الكثيرة بالكلية و الاسايمانت الكثيرة وهيك شغلات بتاخد وقت كتير+ لو الانجليش حرفيا عندي ضعيف ومش بعرف أقرأ سناريو السوال منيح ومش بعرف شو المطلوب.
th-cam.com/video/rEZpWY5hbuU/w-d-xo.html
Congratulations !
I would like to ask if you could please share that anki deck with the 36000 cards or where can we find it?
www.reddit.com/r/medicalschoolanki/comments/p7glp5/anking_overhaul_step_1step_2_version_10_update/
Congratulations hero!!
Could you tell me what to do if the foundation is not that good near to the end of academic years?
I've heard that B&B is very comprehensive and I've watched a couple of his cardiology videos as a sort of trial and they were decent. So, I think B&B could build you a decent foundation along with Qbanks.
Appreciated!!
What do you think about Dirty medicine? Could it be combined with B&B?
@@abdelmonemsalaheldin6354 I'm not sure if dirty medicine is comprehensive. I only watched one of his videos. Maybe you could use it to supplement your regular resources like Qbanks and B&B, but it shouldn't be your primary resource.
@@YousefTanas
God bless you,
If you don't mind, could you tell me best way to increase the quantity of daily study effectively?
like not to be in exams time to finish more lectures in the limited time.
Thanks in advance!!
Hi, i'm a doctor from Ecuador, can i contact you? I want to know more about USMLE, thanks for the video.
Tanas .. congratulations bro
Can tell me more about first aid
Was it beneficial or u didn't come close to it
Cuz you know every usmlers keep talking about first aid and uworld
And i got your point about u world
Bit still alittle bit vague about first
It's almost useless if you're using Anking. Otherwise, definitely go over it at least once.
Congratulations, Dr. Youssef, I have a question about where I can get anki deck that you use.
Did you find the Anki deck?
Hi did you read first aid at all or you just used Qbanks( and what q banks were used)
My idol
Can you please 20:20 spell the name or share uworld anki deck you use ?I don’t find it.
what about boards and beyond videos ? have you watched them with taking notes or what?
Hi Yousef, while solving questions from a qbank would you care noting down important information at some place like annotating First Aid so that you could come back later to review or would you rather just go on and rely on repetition of concepts in the qbanks?
I never wrote down anything. I would just rely on Qbank repetition and Anki.
Ok. Thank you!
I'm LATAM, sorry i don't very well, what's the maximium Score? In the step 1 and step 2ck
WOW!!!
what about new information you overcame during solving questions? did u just read and understand them without taking any notes or doing flashcards ? don't you think taking notes or making flashcards of new information is necessary because if not they will be forgotten?
What was name of anking deck he said with 320000 flashcards
لو سمحت هو يعنى ايه self _study ده ، يعني بتفهم نفسك الكلام المكتوب بدون ما تسمع حد بيشرح ولا إيه بالظبط؟
Congrats! What is the name of the ANKI deck? Best of luck in residency.
I used Zonkoo and Anking
Hello good day. I'm close to 4 months out and I'm studying all over the place. But Im trying to use mainly uworld but I keep getting most of the questions wrong and it's kinda demotivating. I tried using videos and Anki but it feels too overwhelming sometimes. I remembered you saying the exams where alot similar to nbmes do you think I can just study nbmes 20-30 to pass step 1? If so could you please share some advice if possible?
Naaah I would recommend none to do such a mistake
Actual exam was no way close to nbmes
It’s atleast 80% uworld qbank styled
Many questions get you confused bw two options or twk diagnosis even FA doesn’t help I had such a confusion bw impetigo phemphigous and bullous vulgaris with just a pic given and history they gave was helping at all and there will be a lot more like that
Just stay focused try to master uworld kinda learn how uworld presents the question
Another big mistake I did was doing Amboss and rx 2weeks out and studying FA last two weeks and had last touched uworld atkeast 3 months out before uni finals but I would recommend what I think would’ve been better atleast prepare the uworld q bank rught ahead of your prep like I Should’ve taken it bfr uni exams and then be done studying FA 2 weeks and do random questions esp wrongs in last weeks and then take uswa2 and free 120 on last day
Take uswa 1 ahead eg 2 months out
And keep kn taking nbmes months earlier to evaluate if you need to put more effort but again I was told do nbmes do max no of them but didn’t find it much helpful to have wasted early 2nd last week on that and getting depressed
“Uworld qbank is most imp thinggggg”
Questions are lengthy do work on time management since early cz I thought I would practice it near end and would’ve gotten it but………………. I could’ve hardly a min left to review the marked ones which I couldn’t apparently do in many blocks
Plus even if you feel like failing in many blocks don’t panic cz it won’t do any good instead chaos won’t let you focus and will affect the other blocks what you can’t get don’t let that destroy what you can
It needs practice I had poor such skills too yup evn on exam day😢
What do you think the best book for pharma to study USMLE?
Hi ,If you study university slides as a source of study, do you also just read them? How do you make sure you memorize them?do you just repeat each paragraph without seeing it or what?
I rarely used them and if I did, I would read them a couple of times and make sure I understood them well.
Congrats again! For the 250 baseline, what would you say contributed most to that score?
My foundation at Uni and my understanding of many high-yield concepts from both pathoma and Uni. Maybe test-taking skills is also a factor.
Also, the first 2 Qbanks were kinda helpful.
What were the resources you used for university that built your foundations that good?
Mainly Uni textbooks and googling stuff I didn't understand. Sometimes guyton and Robbins.
@@YousefTanas thank you for your great help
I wish you more and more success 🙌
You mention that 2 weeks before exam you focused on NBMEs.Could you please, tell us which NBMEs you practiced in that period ?Thanks ahead.
25-30
@@YousefTanas thanks for response.
what about ur gpa in uni?
and good luck bro
CONGRATS BROTHER.IHAVE A Q. YOU STARTED USMLE 1 PREP IN MIDDLE OF 3RD YEAR RIGHT. IN WHICH YEAR YOU TOOK TEST ??
Yes, I started in the middle of year 3 and took my exam during the summer holiday of year 4.
I hope I can pass USMLE I Don't haves a job,I am 36 years old all my dreams related to USMLE,if I can choose between my life and USMLE I would choose USMLE
I've always believed USMLE is not all about studying, you need God's grace to pass
So sorry about that am still looking forward too take my USMLE exam on June just studying hard and praying to God I know I can make it.
USMLE exam is so difficult & I don't know the reason why it should be?
After, 3-4 years of studying we are being challenged be the ultimate exam "USMLE" many students face difficulties in acquiring their license
I failed my USMLE exam 2 times first was 2020 second was 2021 and I lost money on review questions and also wasted a lot of time studying which never helped me .
What was his university scores? And what is his university rank?
94-95% in years 1-4
Class rank: top 5%
افضل مصدر للethics
Qbanks like AMBOSS, UW, and Rx
Just a rough guess , how much times did you read and complete first aid , btw congrats brother!
Never really finished it cuz I did Anking.
@@YousefTanas ok now I get it , thanks bro , best wishes for the future ! And let me know if you are on insta .
Where did u take usmle step 1, in usa or Egypt?
مع امتحان pass or fail
بنفع ادخل الامتحان بدون ما أحل uworld أونلاين بس هحله أوفلاين،
أهم topic في كل usmle
No probs keep going with UWorld like this
I'll make a video answering your other question
ننتظر🙏
what's the Zonku deck? I cant seem to find it! Or is this Zanki?
Zonkoo
sorry but can someone tell what did he said in 24:85 that the test Is closest to nbme what ?
NBME 25
Yousef Tanas i got what he said I believe it’s nbme and free120 not 25
must be the 6 boiled eggs...
😆
And do believe someone can score high by just doing questions form two good qbanks Rx and uworld only?
Yes, that's possible but don't forget both NBMEs and AMBOSS cuz they're more important. Also, make sure you're understanding as much as possible.
@@YousefTanas thank you so much for replying
Would u say that the nbmes were closer to the actual exam vs uwsa?
Absolutely!
Congratulation! Just one question, one thing I noticed is that you did not mention thoroughly studying from the First Aid book. So your "content review" was only relying on the fundamentals you acquired at university, sketchy micro, Pathoma and the ANKING deck?
If yes, then what do you think about what many students recommend which is memorizing every single detail in the First Aid book from cover to cover?
Thanks in advance.
Yes, my content review was basically Anking. Pathoma and SketchyMicro were 1.5 years out and just helped build my foundation.
I was in the same boat and thought that I have to memorize every detail in FA, but after I took my exam I felt that I didn't really need it. So no, it's not necessary. And personally, I never got to read it all.
I'll make a video to address this in detail.
@@YousefTanas Alright, thank you!
One more thing, how did you manage to study for both your uni exams and usmle? I am currently a med student and it is very challenging to study both at the same time.
Thanks again.
ممحتاجين فيديوهات كمان للمعادلة الف الف مبارك
could somone success without uni work?
Like..self learning... im struggling with it 😪
Will make a video about this.
How have u approached anking?
Did you do step 2?
The USMLE test is really frustrating, I can't believe I failed again after studying so much🥺🥺😓😭😭
I'm really sorry about this. I hope my advice could be of help in the future! :)
Can you show us your test taking skills
I might make a video about this.
He didn’t mention taking notes or reviewing, does he?
Never took notes. There was nothing to review as I was doing anking.
@@YousefTanas congratulations on your achievements, and thank you for your response.
my concern on CK is that my memory is good but isn't sufficient to benefit enough from the questions such that I can justify doing them without review.
for example, you had mentioned taking uworld and then your second run feeling as though you remembered your answers.
I don't have that problem because I cannot remember my 2500 answers.
Here from reddit
Ok most of us can’t do like this guy, we need sth more practical for the common guys like us. He said he got 95% correct in uw first pass. That’s not realistic for most of us.
How long time did it takes you to prepare over all?
8.5 weeks of dedicated but overall 1.5 years
الف مبروك ي دكتور يوسف انا حاليا فى سنة تالته طب كفر الشيخ وحابب ابدا فى المعادلة وخلصت السنوات الاكاديمية محتاج اعرف ابدا بايه الاول انا بقالى ٥ شهور بسمع تجارب وفيديوهات عن الناس اللى عملوا المعادلة وكل شخص بيقول خطط مختلفة محتاج حضرتك تقولى ايه ممكن ابدا بيه بالترتيب
I'll make a video about this.
@@YousefTanas thanks 😊
@@YousefTanas ياريت بجد وشكرا مقدما
انا ٣ث ايه جابني هنا 😂❤
yo so i heard a guy from university of Khartoum got a 280 how do i know that's correct?
You have just heard, is there a proof???
You haven't mentioned a word about First Aid. Is it a myth that people say it's the "Bible" of Step 1?
It's a great resource for Step 1, but it becomes less important when you do AnKing as it covers most of First Aid.
@@YousefTanas Thanks! One more question. What’s the best deck for Anki? The usual Step 1 deck and Zonkoo?
@@funmoments3940 yea AnKing first and then Zonkoo if you have time
what about ethics/communication Qs?
Will make a Q&A about this and other stuff soon.
bro 100 percentile is crazy who the fuck does that
No.