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I am also planning to join the Kaplan center prep
Does it really helpful? Please give me your opinion

Thanks

i cant send you any of those.. i no longer have the PR notes.. but they are easily searchable on google

- archer is a subscription service.. you have to pay for it

and ccs from uw is also subscription software.

if you are someone that learns from lectures better than by yourself, then yes kaplan center prep is useful

Do we get lecture notes with archer ccs when we purchase a subscription?

archer has powerpoint slides .. you take your own notes if you want however

Thank you doctam3. Starting archer CCS today. Nervous. Seems hard.

@ doctam. Your advice is highly appreciated pls.
Started my prep on first week of March.
For first one month I studied for 5-6 hours a day,5 times a week.During first month I did mksap15mcqs and listened to archer theorey lectures for IM only.
For next three months I studied 8-9 hrs a day,5 times a week. During second month I read theorey from books for two times. And then for one week I did 52 uw ccs cases.
After finishing my theorey,I took nbme2 on 28th April and got 360.
Did UwQ-Bank and 41 read out cases ,all for one time,for 35 days along with my research job.
Took nbme3 on 16th June and got 290.
Took usmle-Rx self assessment on 21st June and got 208 +/-20 points.
So I m confused as to where does my prep stands. Which assessment test shud I follow.
Now I m doing 1 block per day of Kaplan q- bank and I m getting 64% marks in that. I m not reading explanations, I m only doing McQs.
And what can I do to improve my scores.
For first 3 hours in morning I do uw ccs cases myself.
And then for rest of the day I study my books for theorey.
I have archer listened ccs strategies lecture for3 hours. It was pretty helpful.
IM from nsim book x 2times. Good book although has some mistakes,which I corrected from uw.
All other subjects from step2ck Kaplan notes x2times.
What shud I do to improve my scores. Where m I lacking.
Please guide me.
Thank you.

Hi doctam3

Please help me to get premier notes
I am unable to download the file from given site.

If possible can u email me the notes .......manmemeet

Thanks for help

Hi doctom plz I really neec ur advice is it save to take the exam next Saturday my usa is 213 should I go or is it risky

drdss... your prep is weak (i mean no offense in saying that honestly) but it is .. 1 block per day?? are you for real? what do you do in 24 hrs that you can only do 1 block ...AND youre not even reading the explanations??? thats where all the points are ! ... even if you spend 3 hrs doing ccs.. thats still 21 hrs .. with 6 hrs for sleep (which should be more than enough) .. thats 15 hrs left.. and you're only able to do 1 block?? need to step it up BIG TIME if you're serious about passing your test.

to improve scores, you need to be doing as many questions as possible.. on average, 6 blocks a day should be the goal ... eg: by the time i finished my prep, i had done 20,000 questions from different sources... that wouldn't have been possible if i was going at your pace of 1 block / day.

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nosa .. 213 is avg so go for it .. you know your stuff enough to score that .. and uwsa correlates well to the actual test .. just keep in mind though that actual test questions are longer than uwsa but the difficulty is the same in question material