 Now there is that topic that my subscriber base loves asking about step one and I get a variety of comments but there is one that floods my comment section in my inbox which is what question thing should I use. So in this video guys we are finally going to answer that question at the very end stick around because if you want all of your step one questions answered in one resource I will tell you how at the very end to stay tuned but first let's get to that. All right guys what is going on last year from the MD journey helping you to see on your journey with less stress. Now if there is a step one question you guys love asking about it is what Q-Bank to use to help study for step one and finally I'm going to get to it because you guys have been flooding my comment section literally it's just question bank question bank question bank that should totally be a spark but we are going to get into it and I'm going to give you my top three Q-Banks that I love using I'm going to give each of them a grade as well as recommendations on how to use them so let's get into it. Now my favorite and the first Q-Bank that we'll be talking about is USMLE RX. Now I know a lot of you guys are probably expecting me to talk about you well but we will in this video but USMLE RX is my favorite for several reasons one step one is a very scary test and to make it a little bit less scary you want to be scores that can help build your foundations and help build that confidence that's really where people struggle is just getting to that steep learning curve that you have to when you're prepping for exam and the advantage that comes from using USMLE RX is it's made by the same creators of first aid so when you read the book if you're a student like me who can't really take all the information first aid and memorize it then you can use both first aid and USMLE RX to really nail your foundations because first aid has a lot of the high yield material that'll show up on the test so USMLE RX definitely gets the aid in my book has over 2400 practice questions and it's by far the cheapest of all the question banks that I'll talk about in this video so it's perfect for students studying during their first and second year of med school. Now the second resource that we'll talk about that a lot of students will use is Kaplan so Kaplan is again another question bank that has about anywhere from 21 to 2400 practice questions which works really well the one caveat is the questions are a little bit more detailed a little bit more so when I would say USMLE RX and just talked about are probably a little bit easier than the actual exam so Kaplan is a little tougher than the actual thing so in terms of grades especially after using it for a few months during my second year of med school I would probably give it around a B to maybe a B plus because the questions are a little bit more difficult and I think in that first phase when you're studying for step one with your classes you kind of want something to just kind of build your confidence again and to help you nail down the high end. The nitty gritty details are probably not necessary and let's be honest everyone uses the next resource that we'll talk about during step one dedicated which is UALT. Now I'll talk about UALT I will point this out you should not be using UALT prior to your step one dedicated unless your dedicated is not enough time to prep I would not start using UALT for a few reasons one it's extremely expensive currently while making this video UALT is about three hundred and ninety nine dollars for about 90 days that's pretty steep for a question bank now with that being said it's also one of the most realistic question banks you have to help you prep for step one so with that price tag and with only that limited amount of time you don't want to use those high quality questions to help you during your initial part of this instead you would want to be used other questions to help build your foundation and then use UALT to really nail down the information that's necessary for the exam so again in terms of grade and those three I would put UALT as like an A to an A plus because it does the most realistic job of helping you prepare for the real thing so us and Ali would be second and pretty close to UALT and then Kaplan would kind of fall down and still be number three so now let's talk about how to use the different question banks so first let's talk about if you're new or if you're a first or second-year med student you just have some time before you dedicate it I would recommend checking out U.S.M.A.R.X and especially if you try to use first aid with your classes you just not sure how to U.S.M.A.R.X is a good supplement to it because what you can do is let's say you're on your cardiology block as a second-year med student you can just do cardio questions on like one afternoon or half day of the week and practice your step one studying that way and that way you can build your foundation that first aid is trying to do but doesn't always do the best job so you're basically quizzing yourself on first aid with practice questions that are board level then when it comes down to dedicated switch over completely to UALT so once you finish UALT there's one of two things that you could do and I know this is a question some of you guys may have which is do I do UALT a second time during my dedicated or should I use another question bank during my dedicated which really you have two options you can't do it a second time and it works really well for students who may not be able to memorize those 2400 questions so again you can work on quizzing yourself on some of the most realistic yet challenging questions for step one or you can do option two and this is what I do which is switch over to USMARX to build your confidence again going into testing now I'm a student who thrives upon confidence building versus knowledge building so if I felt that my first five weeks of dedicated did the trick and now I just need to make sure I can like get out in anxiety mode I would switch over to USMARX during your last week or two and just focus on building kind of your confidence that you know the basics because then you can go in the test day and say yep I know the gimme questions I'm going to get and the tough questions are going to be tough for me and everyone next to me so again it gets super valuable if you thrive upon that confidence building so that is how I would structure step one study again USMARX that start during your first and second years doing UALT during your dedicated and if you still have extra time one of those two options either do UALT again or you can still do like your missed questions on your world or completely switch over to Rx to build your confidence now that's basically how I would use question banks at least to study for step one now I mentioned at the start of this video though but if you're interested in similar questions to that or other questions on how to do well on step one then in the link in the description down below if you're interested check it out I'm basically wanting to make you guys a collection of videos answering every single question you could have about step one such as how to study specific study strategies advanced study strategies how to manage your time study schedules and so much more if you're interested to fill out your information and give the questions that you would want me to answer then two make sure you hit that like button on this video that way if we get 50 likes it will finally start making those collections so make sure you guys check out the links in the description down below but with that being said guys if you enjoyed this video make sure you smash that like button subscribe to the channel for videos on a weekly if not more frequent basis drop your questions down below in the comment section I will see you guys later thank you guys so much for watching tududu