 So if you're studying for step one and you're not seeing progress, but the test day is getting closer and you're nowhere close to your goal score, what in the world do you do? That's exactly what we'll talk about in this video. Let's get to it. All right guys, what is going on? Luxury for an MD journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress. Today we are making another video topic about step one. It's really a question that I get from you guys a lot, whether it's in the comment section through emails through Instagram, which is basically the test is getting closer and I am not seeing progress. I've started to plateau. More importantly, my grades may have started to go down and I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. What do I do? So today's video is actually from the step one Academy, which is the course that we have on the MD journey. This is actually a bonus video that we made for the students because they have these kinds of questions. But I know a lot of you guys have been asking me through Instagram and various other social media. So I thought I'd just go ahead and share that with you too. At the very end, if you guys want to learn more about the step one Academy, the links will be down below. But before we begin, if you do enjoy this video, if you've enjoyed the content that we've produced for you guys on the channel, then just go ahead and share some love. And hit that like button. It basically helps the channel grow, get in front of more and more viewers that otherwise wouldn't know we existed. So we appreciate your help. And if you haven't subscribed already, consider doing so because we're putting out weekly content just like this for you. But without further ado, let's get into the video. All right guys, so this is going to be another video in the step one Academy. It's actually going to be a bonus video because I've been getting a lot of questions from both you guys prior to joining the course, as well as individuals who follow me on social media, which basically say, you know, I'm going to strut out that I've been studying over time. And my score is starting to plateau. So this is this is my score. This is time. But the problem is, you know, plateauing happens, obviously, when you study for a long period of time, but this right here is your goal score. All right. So the real question is, what do you do when there's such a big discrepancy, especially when test day is approaching? We'll just call this test day. You know, so if you're getting really close a couple of weeks away from your exam, maybe one or two weeks, and your score is nowhere near where you want it to be, then what approach should you take? Should you move the exam back? Do you need to change your approach? Should you use a different question bank? Someone kind of walk you through a sample process or a sample method that I suggest to a lot of my coaching students. And basically the idea is, is that, you know, if you are trying to get, let's just say a 240, all of the number doesn't matter. Let's say you're trying to get a 240 or 250, that would be your goal. But you're currently scoring around a 230, 220. So you definitely have some room to make before you get here. Now, when time is limited, a lot of times students will try to do something completely different. They'll use a different resource and the hope that that's kind of magically solves a problem. Unfortunately, scoring in this range, you know, is a little bit to scoring, sorry, scoring in this range is a little bit different than scoring in this range and trying to go to a 260. Here, you're doing pretty well. You just have to, you know, get better at answering more difficult questions. But I'm going to assume most of you guys are kind of in this window, not a little bit lower and trying to get in this. So how do you make that jump? So my first thing is going to be, is to identify your weak points that you're really struggling on for the last few weeks of your prep. In the Step 1 Academy, as you guys know, we talk about the dedicated review 2.0 system. So watch those videos again to understand really how to coordinate your schedule to best suit your weaknesses as well as your strengths. But figure out what your weak points are and revisit them. So you can go into your world and identify what kind of subjects are you doing the worst on and which ones are you doing the best on. So you're going to have some topics, as we know, that are going to be mastery. Topics that are going to be average. And then topics that we're going to call below average are struggling. So I'm just going to give some examples. We're going to say maybe you are struggling with cards, maybe you're still struggling with repro, maybe you're struggling with farm. Right. So those are some of the main topics. But let's say you're doing well on biostats. And so basically how do I take this and coordinate a new study schedule for you? Well, if you have a couple of weeks left, what I would say is at the start of your day, I would begin a question block doing this. So go into your world and basically do a 40 question random, first of all, and timed. So I'll explain a few reasons why I do all of those things. So random by random, I would say pick your weak topics. So go into your world, pick the cards, pick the repro, pick the farm as your selection and then do 40 questions and keep a time. The reason I tell you to keep it timed is that these are going to lead to the most anxiety during test day, you know, the topics that you struggle with. And you're also going to struggle with timing. So if you focus on having just one question block a day that you can go ahead and focus to your weak points, then you can improve on both your anxiety as well as your timing. So do the random, you know, and pick your weak topics. And then number two, obviously, is to go ahead and start reviewing them. So in the Step 1 Academy, we talk about various ways to review. And so I'm not going to necessarily go over that in this video, but let's just say you're reading the explanations and you're using a specific strategy that we talked about to, to review. Now, number three would be to use a reference to kind of fill in the holes. You know, now, if you think about it, this is actually a number two. At least iteration of these weak points, you know, maybe you've missed the same cardiology question a few times. So this is probably the second time that you've gone through it. So if you still somehow miss it, then it's encouraged that you go through a reference like first aid or watch a YouTube video or go through sketchy if you're struggling with like farm or micro and just, you know, go through those resources to help fill in the blocks. So Pat Doma, et cetera. So go through the reference and then throughout your day, I would recommend, you know, number four is either repeat. So do another 40 question block of your weaknesses. Again, with this whole idea is that if we go ahead and graph out our score from our desired score, then over time, what we want to do is we want to go ahead and just kind of improve on our weaknesses, which are going to cost us this difference and get us closer to that because we could try learning through a different resource. We can focus more of our time watching videos and hopefully Pat Doma and sketchy will do the trick for reality. Closing this gap by working on our weaknesses multiple times, especially during the last few weeks is truly what's going to help. So just to kind of overview, kind of walking you down. So one is identify your weak points. Once you do that, try to do one to two random you will blocks on those topics. Review using a reference material on the topics that you're still missing, despite, you know, going through it a second time. And then in regards to kind of how to make sure you're staying strong on your other topics, I would say do one block a day on just random. So it's not necessarily around your weak points. It's kind of still testing you for a test day. But this is going to help you limit your weaknesses. And this is just going to help you keep you strong per test day. So that's kind of my approach, guys. Hopefully this kind of helped solidify some of the things that you guys may be doing. But if you're considering, you know, spending more time watching or using a resource, I would actually recommend just simplifying it completely and going through, you know, what am I struggling on? Let me focus more on my time at the start in the middle of the day on kind of closing in those gaps and then using maybe the last part of my day to just do a generic form of studying. That way I can keep myself strong, live in my weak points and ideally close into my goal score. So hopefully this bonus video helps you guys out. If you guys want to learn more or if you have any more questions, you know, you guys can follow the survey down below in the Step One Academy. And also let me know if you guys have any more questions and obviously I can make a video on that topic as well. But I'll see you guys in the next one. All right, guys, hopefully you've enjoyed this video and hopefully it helps you understand how to approach Step One when things may not be going your way. You guys do have more questions about Step One that you know where to drop them. Go ahead and put them in the comment section down below. And also if you're interested in learning more about Step One Academy, especially if you feel like you're a student who needs some help to get to your desired score and definitely check out the links in the description down below. There you can also see the reviews as well as feedback from current as well as past students. And as a bonus, if you want three additional concepts that really helped me propel my Step One score, you guys can check out the Step One Masterclass also linked down below. And before I let you go, if you want just daily med school tips, not just Step One, but also things just how to study, being productive, stress management, motivation, then follow your boy at Instagram. We're posting daily, if not by daily, by daily. And I'm not sure. 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