USMLE Step 1 & COMLEX Lvl 1 study vlog | highs and lows 🎢

[Music] good morning it's 10:00 a.m. on Sunday May 5th I'm currently still in dedicated and I didn't think I was going to film an actual Vlog during dedicated because because I wanted to solely focus on studying but I also thought this is a very grueling and hard period of my life that I want to be able to look back on and see that I made it through so I decided that I do want a vlog for a week and just show what life was like during this time period it's interesting because a lot of people really hate on dedicated and I started off by thinking dedicated was not bad at all because there's no school there's no outside activities pulling you in multiple directions all you really have to do is just study but it's uninterrupted studying cuz you've already studied all throughout school but now it's just uninterrupted studying you're on your time you could stay at home the entire day if you wanted to you could go to a cafe and stay there for 10 hours if you wanted to but also with that the way I think about it is there's no highs and no lows so dedicated to me has just kind of been a flatline of everyday is the exact same I do the exact same things there's nothing really keeping it interesting there's no class or school activity that I can go to to kind of break up that routine literally the highlights of my week are when I go to Panera to study So currently I have about 20 days left until I take my first exam which is the complex and basically every week has been about the same I'll do a ton of practice questions I'll do eny cards I'll do content review in the form of videos or I'll look things up in the step book and then I'll also do practice exams so I'm going to be taking full practice exam later this week at some point um probably around Wednesday so today me and Becca and Jan are going to do a half length instead so basically do two out of four sections because I don't want to do a full one because if I'm taking another full one in a couple days I burn out really easily when I do that many questions so I'm just going to do half and save all my strength for midweek so yeah everything I've mentioned that's the rough plan for today and we're just going to dive in and see where the week takes us you world percentage so far they tell you that by the time you take the exam you're supposed to be done with you world if not do two passes through you world if not do one pass through you world and do one pass through all the questions that you got wrong um as of right now I don't think I'm on track to even do one whole pass through U world but I forgot how many questions exactly they say that you should do before taking the exam as in practice questions but I've calculated with all the practice exams that I've taken the you bank and the true learn com Bank I'm over 4,000 practice questions in now so ideally I am going to get through this so I'm doing my best and questions have gotten a lot easier than they were for me in the beginning of dedicated you should have seen how badly I struggled and how long it took me to get through sets because I used to get 30% 40% so I pretty much used to get everything wrong and then I'd have to sit and review everything and a lot of it felt like new content but now it's starting to click I'm starting to score a lot higher getting less wrong so less to review you know you know how it works so it has been a lot better so maybe I can get through everything I'm going to try and do a quick 20 set before it's time to leave to go take the practice exam giving me Wind and Rain some kind of butterfly baby you [Music] meid whip my don't leave [Music] me [Music] oh I don't want to jinx it baby and [Music] myself don't want to over it baby [Music] just baby you meu [Music] good afternoon it's Tuesday I made the mistake of sleeping through all of my alarms so I only woke up at 11:30 today which is great because I got all the rest that I needed but also terrible because I wasted so much time in the morning that I could have spent studying yesterday was a decent study day we only ended up getting through one section of Ural assessment so that was 40 questions and then I did 40 more questions of Ural in general General I did 400 donkey cards and I got through I think four videos of like bethan sketchy that I was watching I definitely want to hit even more questions today and then probably also focus more on sketchy biocam it's been really helpful and I feel like I have retained zero biocam since I learned it in school so yeah I'm going to go ahead and start with the 20 [Music] questions I don't want to jinx it baby let not get [Music] it is 8:00 p.m. I'm about 40 questions in I took a break and went to the beach today trying to enjoy the beach as much as I can since I'm not going to really have it next year the way I've had access to it here from school and now I'm doing some ay cards that I had suspended from the videos yesterday some videos today and the questions that I work through today so I'm going to work through these cards cards now I'm reaching that point in Burnout where it's hard to focus it's taking me longer to get through each tasks and I have to keep myself interested by switching tasks so like I'll do questions and I'll watch a video and then I'll do cards and then I'll go back to questions because it's hard to stay focused on one task so yeah currently just working through the cards here's a fun fact about me I think I've watched these videos probably about five times each now if you don't know who this is this is America R she's a doctor now but she's like the OG med school YouTuber and these two Vlogs are about her step one experience and I watched this before I even gotone into medical school first year of medical school when I wasn't even studying for Stu and now that I am she is just going through it here and she portrays it in such a raw and sincere way so if you need any steady motivation these two videos and I say that because it's literally taking me a year to get through these donkey cards also I forgot if I already mentioned this but I made two new filter decks for my ay so I'm no longer worrying about this big number and I'm no longer doing over a th cards a day which was extremely draining and extremely timec consuming but now instead I'm filtering all the cards from all the new videos that I watch into my new stuff deck and then all the you world and true learn questions that I missed all those cards go into the missed questions deck so I just finished going through and also these cards take the cards out of the aning card so this number always changes because these cards are from this deck so I just finished going through the new stuff and I think I'm going to take a break from Ani because I'm starting to slow down I'm going to watch a video instead of something or other and then get back to the missed questions deck so this is one of my many organizing sheets of the videos that I want to watch have watched and whatnot this is specifically for sketchy path and I circled re and msk because these were my two worst pathology sections on my last true learn assessment so I'm planning to watch as many of these videos as I can as just a review and I think the reason that they were the worst is because these two were two of the last blocks that I had in medical school so I basically had the least experience in these it's been about what like 3 to 4 months that I've seen the topics compared to like cardio that was in the beginning that I've now seen for many many months so these I'm planning to just watch I'm not going to do the ankey cards for this cuz I already have enough ankey cards and I already spend enough time on that so these I just watch passively and just try to absorb as much as I can just to watching the video [Music] progress report for the day I did 106 ykee cards then I did three sets of yearold questions um ignored this one and then I did better on these I have 250 cards left to go from the videos that I watched today and the questions that I got wrong videos that I watched today was one pathma video and then I watched like three videos on sketchy path for breast cancer I don't know if any of it's stuck but so I'm going to go and try to work through all the cards I think I'm done with questions for today by the time I was finishing up the third set I felt like my brain couldn't think anymore so I think I'm done with questions so I'm going to do the cards and then I might just watch some more videos passively because it's just cartoons also I've been making this list of videos that I want to watch but of course it only keeps growing and uh I haven't crossed anything off yet done with ony cards it took forever and it's only midnight right now I usually go to bed around 2:00 and then wake up around 10:00 so it's kind of an early bedtime for me if I go to bed right now so I think I'm going to watch some sketchy path and just yeah just passively absorb until I'm ready to go to sleep it's 9:40 in the morning on Wednesday I'm heading out to school to take a practice truear assessment I've been taking an assessment like once a week if not twice a week so I slept terribly I had the same thing happen to me when I was studying for the MCAT I would get a nightmare nightmare every single night and these nightmares are not just like little things it's literally like shootings or I'm kidnapped or someone I love dies so it's like so it's like terrible terrible nightmares that really get in the way of good sleep so I feel really exhausted but um I'm taking it with a bunch of friends so that's always motivating to get my butt there and actually take it so hopefully it goes well the last one went pretty well okay so I am home now eating my whole schedule is just out of whack because I took the true learn assessment and then we reviewed the true learn assessment right after the true learn assessment is 180 questions no breaks and I also ran out of time more so on this one than I did on the first one the first one I at least like had time to go run to the bathroom somewhere in between the sections and then this time I didn't even go to the bathroom in the 4 hours because I was constantly pressed for time I didn't eat in those 7 and 1/2 hours except for like some snacks so I'm like eating now it's 6:40 p.m. I think I want to go on a run I've had a headache I usually never really get headaches so this is how dedicated it's going and I've had a headache for the past like 4 days straight but on and off I think it's getting to that point in dedicated where it's just getting really hard to push forward because I feel tired every day I think I've lost that energy and stamina that I had saved up in the beginning and yeah now every day I'm just forcing myself and willing myself to study more do more questions and just keep going until I finally take the exam I also did worse on this assessment than I did on the first one which was disappointing but I did run out of time like I said in the end but I don't think that was worth how many points I had dropped in this assessment so just to show some of the things I'm going to be focusing on now gu dropped all the way down it was I got 25% 25% of the questions correct which can be because there weren't that many but also it's weird because gu used on my last assessment was one of my highest also psych and endocrine were both two of my highest systems so I don't really know how to interpret results when it's just like the inverse of each other in the span of a week like I know I didn't forget all my endocrine psych and um gu stuff in the span of a week you know but then msk was low and I think it was my lowest last time so I know for a fact that I have to hit this really hard and I think I'm just going to watch a ton of videos just like all the videos that there are for the pathology for this system and hopefully bring this up um I think I'm done with questions for the rest of the day I'm going to go for a run and not think about school and then I have a ton of anky that I un suspended from the true learn questions that I got got wrong and then I think I'm just going to watch videos for the rest of the day because I think the only capacity that I have left in my brain is to watch pictures Flash in front of my face and not have to think through questions I'm now having the worst time dedicated to not seem that bad and now I can't wait for this to be over first I think I got to get out of the house because I usually don't study at home and I have been studying at home because it's been really comfortable to just have everything here have all my snacks here and not have to go anywhere and now I am just hating being at home because I just associate every room in this home with boards prep now and like I feel like I can't get a break so I think I'm going to go to school but I did 40 practice questions today already and msk and realized that msk is in fact really hard for me for whatever reason so so I didn't do well on those practice questions but I'm learning I watched some videos for msk I think I'm going to work through all my msk eny cards that I have unsuspended so basically the plan is tomorrow we're going to be taking another Comm I'm still trying to get the score that I need to be able to sit for the real exam the comx So the plan for today is going to be to do some true learn questions because those are the most representative for what the Comm will look like do all my msk ay do all my anky for my missed questions and just the cards that are due for today watch the rest of the msk videos that I have I got a review om for tomorrow at least all the like high yield doam and then I think with whatever time I have left I'm going to watch some new videos for like biocham or something and unsuspend and do those cards as well I think I'm also starting to run to the problem of all these new stuff that I'm learning I'm starting to forget all the old stuff and then I don't have enough time left in the day to review all the old stuff so I've never made soup before and I want some comfort food so I decided to make some chicken noodle soup this is what I have so far some modest beginnings and the rest of it if I get another inhaled exhaled rib question wrong I'm going to lose it back at some point I thought om was going to be the easy points on the comlex and now I think om is going to be the reason why I don't pass comlex I think I overestimated how much soup I was making feel like I reached a new low today so my friend was having a going away in the city so I went there for like an hour and a half and I didn't think about school and I had fun and and I'm feeling a lot better so I think I really did need just like a break from school and it would be really nice to take a full day off and that's like the advice that I've got is if you're feeling this burnt out just take an entire day off but that sounds so scary when the test test is only 2 weeks away but anyway comade tomorrow it's midnight now so I'm going to try and wind down and go to bed maybe I'll do some questions in bed or review a little bit because I'm not tired yet but com says tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. I need to get a 450 to be able to sit for the exam I'm going to get the score right away so hopefully I can get that 450 because I was close last time not super super close but I'm hoping that a week's time plus an assessment that I took in between all the extra questions and reviewing is going to be enough to get me to that 450 really really hope so because that'll be a weight off my shoulders so yeah let's hope for my sake that I can do it tomorrow I did it I can't believe it pass the com got above a 450 so I'm now elig ible to sit for the real thing and it is such a relief I got my score I clicked submit I okay first of all I was so scared to click the submit button I was so scared to see what my score was going to be and then I saw my score and then I was so shocked that I started packing and then I had to reopen my computer just to look at the score again and I took a picture of it because I couldn't believe that I had actually passed I don't know why it this exam didn't feel feel that good so I just yeah I just couldn't believe it so happy it is such a relief I was so broken yesterday I was convinced that I'm going to have to push my test back now at least I don't think I have to push complex back I'm still not sure about step but I think I should be fine to sit for comlex to take it and pass I hope I am so happy like I just love to see work hard work payoff and it sucks when you work really hard and you put in the time and then nothing changes so the fact that I got a jump in the score is it made all these difficult long hours and questions after questions worth it funny also I think the three areas that I hit the hardest since my last com were Repro msk and biocam because those were three of my worst and I I think I think I improved a little bit in Repro I had a decent jump in biocam which I was so proud of and then I barely by like a hair improved in msk and I did so many msk practice questions yesterday and I thought I had it down so like the fact that I probably improved by like one point I thought he was a thing that terrorized me all these years apparently it was msk I'm so excited I don't even like I'm so excited I feel like I could celebrate but like this is definitely not the time to celebrate so I'm going to try and take it a little bit easier it's a nice day I'm going to go for a walk I'm going to do my ay cards so I'm still studying but it's a more relaxed kind of studying I don't think I'm going to do practice questions today because I an entire exam is enough practice questions for the day [Music]

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Length: 20min 18sec (1218 seconds)

Published: Sun May 12 2024