From an USMD who accidentally used dedicated as a vacay
I will keep this as short as possible. Above average med student but not like top 25%, did well on in-house exams. I was given roughly 7 weeks of dedicated. Decided to spend the first 2.5 weeks just doing Anki reviews and occasionally learning new cards because I was tired :). Didn’t wanna deal with the confidence dip of uworld, so I put it off for a long time. My first NBME was my first time doing practice questions. Just focused on weak areas from then on by doing targeted UW practice in highest yield categories for the last four weeks with an NBME every now and then. Mostly 120 questions a day, kept a question log for incorrect/guessed correctly with short explanations. Reset cards for topics I got wrong. In the last two weeks, turned the question log into an outline sorted highest yield to lowest by ChatGPT then wrote it out every other morning/evening. That’s it. Check post history for the dates on NBMEs. Would not recommend this to anyone; I definitely thought I failed the exam.
28-53
30-60
31-63
26-70 (7 days out)
Free120-66
uworld 28% complete 60% average, mostly weak topics as aforementioned