 Alright guys, welcome to another episode of the TMJ show. Today we are talking about step 2CK and really how to get past the anxiety and Knowledge-based necessary to really do well on the exam, especially as that test becomes more and more important. So I hope you guys enjoy today's episode. So today we have a question from one of our medical school subscribers and listeners who's asked to keep it anonymous So we're just gonna call them John Doe for the purposes of this question But the question is basically in a nutshell We failed steps 2CK and as you guys know it is super super important Especially as we get into a situation where step one is becoming pass-fail step 2CK is going to become even more important And so really the question is they had two options They could either wait until the next kind of match cycle to stake step 2CK and then send those Those new scores ideally better scores as a brand new application or they could basically apply now Take two step CK again and kind of the midst before Application season starts again like interviews these starts and starts and then send out those results to Upcoming programs and this student has decided to take out essentially the second option Which is to apply now take the step 2CK exam again and then see what programs think with the new updated score So the really question is like how do you prepare to retake step 2CK? It looks like they're taking it kind of in the midst of the months So like October and then how to deal with anxiety versus lack of knowledge So this is a two-part question now I agree with the approach of waiting or not waiting and just simply applying and then taking the exam and getting the score Ideally would have been nicer to take the the test a little bit earlier But here we are now so mainly just because as interviews are going out You don't want to be in a situation where you're going to be costing yourself a score or waiting for people to really start evaluating you But we're gonna say that you're starting to take this test in October November And then how you deal with a retake So there is obviously a lack of knowledge if there is some idea or past history of failing And so you want to make sure that you have some kind of system that every time you miss something whether it be on your world Or any other type of kind of practice questions or flashcards that you're doing that you have kind of a gathering in a session every single day To avoid making those mistakes in the future And so a great example is every time you miss a question on your world obviously you market so you can come back to it later But then you have a system where you're like Oh, if I miss a question, maybe I can put it into an Anki card or a word doc or an excel sheet And I need to review that excel sheet or that word doc or those Anki cards for 30 minutes every single day Because essentially now what's happening is yes, you have a lack of knowledge that's going to improve over time But every time you miss a question if your knowledge base of that missed kind of area of facts Get smaller and smaller and smaller they can go in the test day at least with the confidence that you're definitely going to pass So that's number one do more practice questions and then keep a system And this is essentially how I study for step 2 CK is that I minimize how many resources are using and simply said do as Many questions as possible Make as many questions and mistakes as possible now and then have a system where I can jot down what I'm missing and Then review that as many times as possible and then repeat the process over and over and over again Initially, we'll start doing you'll miss a lot of questions over time You'll start to see oh, I've missed this before I've missed something similar to this before and I'm not going to miss it Again, and then if you get it right perfect that means it worked if you get it wrong again That means there's a little bit of another nuance that you still didn't capture You put that in the form of a flash card or an excel sheet or a port doc or something else And then you avoid missing it in the future and that essentially how you go from like a huge list of things a good trip You have on test day again to a much smaller list Friends hopefully you guys are enjoying today's episode now if you're enjoying some of these strategies And then you want basically all of the strategies that we have for medical school Studying productivity stress management doing well on your board exams rotations applying to residency and so much more in one place Definitely consider checking out the med school domination bundle It's by far our bestseller that we have for you here at the MD journey and hundreds and hundreds of students have gone through it I've gotten positive results So if you're just curious of seeing what kind of results or past students have gotten then click the link down below If you're ready to get that unfair advantage of getting all the tips of things you should and shouldn't do in medical school In one place and definitely consider checking out the med school domination bundle So that's how you deal with both lack of knowledge and also honestly a lack of anxiety or an increase anxiety If you imagine that if you can minimize how many things could trip you up on test day You feel more and more confident of doing so and so I would recommend whatever Study kind of a schedule you put on you do more of your time on doing as many questions as possible And as you start to realize like what topics are really costing you the great So maybe you suck at cardiology. Maybe you suck at pediatrics guilty And what you're going to do is as you get closer to actual test day Then you can have certain kind of blocks of questions dedicated to those things more often And what I mean by that is if you have a three week or four week session where you're studying And you realize that after doing two weeks of practice questions in your world that you're worse subjects And even though if they're all kind of not great your worst subjects Maybe in cards maybe in Peds maybe an infectious disease then you can have specific question blocks in the day So if you're gonna do two blocks of 20 every day Then one of your blocks can be on cards on a Monday the next block can be on infectious disease on a Tuesday And then your second block of that day can just be random everything So that way you get to see a little bit of a mixture everything But you have certain focus blocks that are designed for your weakest topics And then again if you miss questions from that cards block or that infectious disease block You put them into an on key card you put them into a flash card You put them into an Excel sheet or a Word doc and then you have a session the next day where you review for 30 minutes This is how you minimize your anxiety. This is how you increase your fund of knowledge And this is like the very simple model of saying okay These are the things I suck at here's I'm going to review it and again Final step of this is as you start getting closer and closer to test day if there are the same topics You're struggling with then you can go to a supplemental resource or really fill in the blank So if you're really struggling with cards, you can go watch those videos versus like watching all the videos and then hoping That you're certainly going to know all the topics so for you especially if you failed I would do more questions and I would do an overview knowledge and watching as many videos or reading text and see how many make some mistakes You can make and then avoid making those mistakes in the future That is basically how you improve your knowledge base decrease your anxiety and ideally set yourself up for a nice residency application So hopefully that helps you out. 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