Hey man, this is exactly what I did and it hurt me.
Please don't make the same mistakes I did.
Step 1 prep is very simple in strategy, but very difficult in execution. Always remember that.
All you need to do is start UWorld (NOT A WASTE) once your school starts Pathology Systems (assuming your curriculum is traditional normal abnormal). Do it concurrently with your systems and keep adding as each organ system gets taught making your exam more mixed as the year goes on. #spatialrepetition
Then, do Pathoma in conjunctions to lectures. Keep first aid in front of you during UWorld and school notes but don't make huge efforts to memorize stuff.
Other than that, you need to grind yourself as hard as possible against your school material. It's not easy and stop caring if you honor or not. Performing poorly on school work is not what screw students over. Abandoning school work to "focus on step" when they become discouraged is what screws over students. Don't be one of them. As long as you put in the effort in class, you're learning what you need.
Then come time for dedicated if you did Uworld 1x, you should be hitting 210s-260s (take a lower NBME, they're all the same predictive value but the lower ones are less representative of difficulty of the exam). Now you have 6-8 weeks to COMFORTABLY re-do UWorld and you'll easily get through 80 questions in 8 hours. Spend the other 4-8 (depending on your stamina) with first aid through reading it and WATCHING USMLE videos which dramatically improved in 2016 but if you like DIT, that also does a solid job lecturing first aid to you while making connections the book doesn't make. At this point First Aid/Videos will boost your score 10-60 points plus the UWorld repeat. You should finish UWorld at the end of the 4th week. Then spend more time finishing up watching the First Aid videos (DIT or express), re-stream Pathoma if you want, and then re-stream any weak areas of first aid. Do any hard areas of UWorld (for most people this is mixed Pathology of possibly biostats and repro) again.
This is probably the simplest, most chill, yet most effective method to guarantee you a 240 at the least.
Once you have your 250 in hand, you'll be eligible to pick anything you want to do for the next 30-50 years.
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Don't dick around with Rx, Brosephelon (everyone says it's awesome just because it's the only known complete set but his cards aren't truly made well and it takes a lot of time to get to something you don't know). First Aid, Secrets, Kaplan, after-school step prep, pre-made ANKI decks, Lange's flash cards, etc. The school period is way more important than dedicated.
Also don't worry if you feel like you're not retaining enough from UWorld on your first pass. Your job is to just answer the questions, read and understand the explanations, and keep moving...don't try to dictate all of UWorld into written or electronic notes and for the your sake, don't annotate into FA unless it's literally 4-5 words and it's screwed your over multiple times on UW. Huge time waste. Your notes are unreliable and I guarantee you won't read them again. The reinforcement will come in the spatial repetition UWorld offers by continually adding sections to your daily question routine.
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