Crush Step 2: The Ultimate USMLE Step 2 Review

I would highly recommend this book. It's shorter than First Aid for step 2, which is another good book but quite lengthy, and it's concise and tells you what you need to know for step 2. I have had a ton of Kaplan Qbank questions that come straight from this book. It's easy to read, good layout, nice summaries. Use with a question book or Qbank for best results.

This is by no means a comprehensive review book but it's an excellent source of concise, high-yield info that's most effective when read several times shortly before the exam day. It contains so much of the material covered in the actual test and was definitely a factor in my (rather good :)) final score. Buy this, buy this, buy this!!!

I am a terrible studier with no attention span whatsoever, yet with the help of this book I went up 25 from my step 1. Here's what I did: I read this book, reread the blueprints books that I had read anyway over the course of third year, did most of the questions in the NMS book, then reread this. Whenever anything important-sounding came up, especially in the questions from the NMS book, I would write it into the margins of crush the boards. It took a fair amount of time, but certainly no more (probably a good deal less) than I spent on step 1. It was also far less painful studying for step 2 than for step 1.The book is a nearly flawless summary of important points. It skips the basics (e.g. assumes you already know what a QRS complex is) and focuses on only the highest of the high yield. In fact, I'd bet that you could beat the mean just by reading this book alone.One minor point, I ran out of time and did not review the "pictures" section at the end of the book (that's one problem with the book. It has very few pictures, and usually just suggests that you "know how to recognize" a given finding). As it turned out, there was not a single picture on my test. Maybe 4 or 5 films, but they were easy to identify. So it's not an issue.

This book isn't probably the sufficient source to ACE the exam but I believe you CAN PASS it with that book only. That's a lot from 200 pages book.For me it worked incredibly well as a study companion to Blueprints series in first stage of studying and then as the GREATEST final review source (with NMS and Kaplan questions sources)Nothing can give you so much "consolidation" on your last 4 days before the exam like going through Crush The Boards for one final time.I would take one star away for the lack of illustrations but once again ........200 pages!!!! You can always use First Aid or any atlas for pictures.

I scored average on Step 1 and was able to improve my three-digit score by 38 points on Step 2 using this book. It is extremely high-yield and right on the money. I would highly recommend this text to anyone in preparation for Step 2.