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NMS Review for USMLE: United States Medical Licensing Examination, Step 2 (2nd Edition)

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

If you are an IMG, start from working on the tests on this book. This is the standard tests that many of us worked on. I agree that the clinical viganettes are shorter than the real exam, and some of the questions are too much in detail. However, they do cover the important topics that actually appear in the exam. If you are able to answer all the questions in this book, you are sure to pass the exam. Do not forget that you are required to answer the multiple choice questions at the exam, and that does not always mean that you know about the topics in depth. So the shortest way to pass it is to practice its format. Further, there is a list at the end of this book that enables you to choose the questions on the subject that you are working on (e.g. surgery, OB/Gyn etc).

Very good book. Many questions on the exam were very similar if not the same, there are only so many ways you can rewrite a question. This book covered pretty much everything and brought certain things to your attention that you might have skimmed over. If you are able to pass the exams in this book you will do fine on step 2. Good buy, especially for the price. Good Luck.

Generally it's provides good practice tests, however, about a third of the questions are non-board-like questions (300 out of 900). However, the other two-thirds (600) are board-like questions and the answers are sufficiently detailed to joggle your memory on important areas that you may have inadvertantly forgotten. I give this question book 4 stars due to the poor format of that third already mentioned . I gave 5 stars to the "Pretest Clinical Vignettes for the USMLE Step 2" because 95% of its questions (400 in total) were in a current board-like format, i.e. "What is the diagnosis?" and "What is the next step?" I recommend both of these books for anyone who likes to do lots of questions to prepare for board exams.

I'm a practicing Canadian MD who wanted to pick up the USMLE Step 2 exam. This book was really quite good in that the vast majority of the example questions were in the same format as the actual computer-based exam, though the hardest questions in the book were harder than the most difficult ones on the exam. Over-all a very worthwhile study aid for the person who more or less knows the material but needs practice writing exams. It would be even better if it was on disk in the EXACT same format as the exam, but as a book it was excellent.

I used this book in the last two weeks before the exam...the questions were pretty difficult, maybe a little more picky than the real exam. But the topics tested were high-yield - a lot of the topics came up in the actual exam. This is a good book to fill in any gaps in your knowledge before the exam. Together with this book, the "Pretest Clinical vignettes" and the Kaplan Q-book, I did enough questions to get me a 97 on the exam.

This book contains 5 practice tests with questions similar to the actual exam questions, only harder. I took the first test to gauge how much I remembered. The task of working through all the tests seemed daunting, but I actually did 3 of the tests in two days before the exam--and I rocked it. I only used another quick comprehensive review book as a reference. It prepared me well for topics I had learned about but needed help answering questions on. Also I learned new things that I saw on the exam. Great workbook.

Its truely a good preparation for Step 2 the questions are alike and the detailed answers make the difference. I'm recomending this book for all who are studying. The first part about 'how to learn' is helpfull.

This has many review questions for step 2 but there are many that are not representative of the type of questions on the actual exam. Some questions are way too specific and not clinically based. If one is looking for a book with a lot of practice questions it does have that to offer but many of them are not helpful in preparation for the exam.

This book is the closest simulation to the actual Step 2 board questions that I have yet reviewed. The length of questions and level of difficulty were commisserate with the exam material. The CD-ROM companion is helpful in practicing questions and becoming comfortable using the computer to do so. I still recommend an additional book, such as Prescription for the Boards, for systematic review of subject areas, with utilization of NMS for test questions.Combined, these make a very complete home review.

This book was a helpful source of questions. The question structure in this book was actually more similar to what I found on the USMLE than the Kaplan Q bank. The difficulty level of the questions was below expectations. This book strongly stresses epidemiology and very little on actual knowledge base. The explanations were inadequate especially regarding why certain answers were wrong. I did the entire Q bank and found that to be much more helpful.