2 weeks down! 3 weeks to go!
Step 1 ISP is seriously the most I have ever studied in my entire life! It is really exhausting, sometimes tedious, but also very very interesting. I really do love about 90% of the stuff we are learning. This is so so different/better than studying for the MCAT.
This week, I slacked a little in the exercise department, slept in a few more days, but still got a ton of good studying in! I focused on the Respiratory System and Cardiovascular System, along with trying to fit in some Pharmacology and Biochemistry/Immunology review. I am a little bit behind schedule on where I wanted to be, but not much. It definitely could be worse!
I just took my weekly NBME exam. If you remember last week, I said I had an (unrealistic) goal of improving 10 points each week. I was ecstatic last week after bumping up my score by a whole 14 points. This week, I definitely wasn't expecting any crazy score jump, but was hoping for about 5 more points. So, you can imagine my surprise when I finally pushed "view results" to see that I had jumped 17 points!!!! Thats right, folks...I'm up 31 points in just 2 weeks!! I am actually less than 5 points away from my ultimate goal score! Its such an encouraging feeling. I hope that I maintain this excitement throughout my studying for the next week, because I think I'm starting to get a tiny bit burnt out.
3 weeks and I will be done with Step 1 (hopefully forever) and laying on a beach in Hawaii with S. That sounds like bliss.
Yay! You can do it! Your score will definitely go up if you keep up the hard work. Mine went up like 40-50 from the school-sponsored one, and even like 20 from my last NBME practice test before my real test. So just keep on going!
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