MD Would I be hurting myself by not using Anking?

[taeyeonlover]

I am a second year MD student. Would like to take step 1 next year May. I would like to study little by little until I take the exam starting now and so I thought about going through Anking deck. Since a lot of the stuff in Anking matches well with my current classes, I can unsuspend the cards related to class material. I am sure that this would help me with being successful in classes too.

But considering that Anking is quite large, I am not sure if I can finish the deck by the time step 1 exam rolls around.

Would I be hurting myself by using other step 1 decks? Should I just try to do as much of anking as I can? Are there any good step 1 decks out there that are not as heavy as anking?

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[wondervisions]

It’s not necessary to do all of anking to pass step 1. For step 1 I recommend pepper for micro and pharm and some anking biochem.

 

[Wolvvs]

It’s not necessary to do all of anking to pass step 1. For step 1 I recommend pepper for micro and pharm and some anking biochem.

How does pepper for micro and pharm compare to the Lolnotacop component of Anking?

 

[taeyeonlover]

It’s not necessary to do all of anking to pass step 1. For step 1 I recommend pepper for micro and pharm and some anking biochem.

Have you ever used lightyear deck? How is this one? I really like bnb and I heard that that deck is based on it.

 

[odyssey2]

I got 25x by using exclusively UFAP, but my friends who Anki’d got 260-270. You can do fine without it but if you want to be a super high scorer you should probably stick with Anki.

 

[wondervisions]

I got 25x by using exclusively UFAP, but my friends who Anki’d got 260-270. You can do fine without it but if you want to be a super high scorer you should probably stick with Anki.

OP will be taking the exam P/F.

 

[wondervisions]

Have you ever used lightyear deck? How is this one? I really like bnb and I heard that that deck is based on it.

I used lightyear for some biochem and it was decent. However, there's a good biochem deck floating around on reddit made from the high-yield anking cards that I would recommend over lightyear.

Edit: PM'd you the link

 

[Nugester]

Nah if you haven't started already with step 1 p/f

 

[jdp207]

You might be hurting yourself if you don't, but Anking will definitely hurt you if you do.