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Every resource you've asked me to rank, in 6 lists. Pick the one you need.
By Dr. Marish Asudani · Published · Updated
One filter decides every list: if a resource doesn't move your UWorld score, it isn't a Step 1 resource. On that filter, Kaplan is F tier, and the top of each list is Mehlman and Neil Randy (YouTube), UWorld (qbanks), Sketchy (micro), the FA Foundation and NBME Booster Anki (decks), and the HY Pharm PDF with Antimicrobials in 90 minutes (pharm).
Read this firstEvery week someone asks me to rank a resource. So every list now has its own page, and every name on every list is a button that opens it. Not "the explanation was good". Did your UWorld number go up?
Here is how to read the tiers, on every list:
The top of every list, in 1 placeThe First Aid Guide, the FA Foundation Anki and the NBME Booster Anki, the free PDFs and your schedule. Renal is free.
Open renal →Want a day-by-day schedule that tells you exactly what to study next? The Vault builds it around your exam date.
Build my schedule on usmlevault.com/schedule →
Five resources, not forty — the whole Step 1 stack.
4 resources I would never use again — and what replaces each.
4 resources, not 40 — why the list is this short.
The seven free sheets — each with the rule for when it comes in.
The resource stack — Step 1, Step 2 CK and Step 3.