The second prong of creating a solid foundation is learning how to effectively study for a standardized exam like Step 2 CK. In other words, your preparation for Step 2 CK begins at the beginning of medical school by way of doing everything you can to thoroughly learn and retain the material being taught in your classes. Create a solid foundation of Step 2 CK knowledgeĬreating and maintaining a solid foundation of knowledge is the most crucial part of any study plan for Step 2 CK especially if you’re shooting for a score of 270+. In this brief article, I’ve included eight steps I personally used to score a 270+ on Step 2 CK.ġ. Or… are they?īelieve it or not, scoring greater than the 99th percentile on Step 2 CK is possible for a select few who prepare well, take care of themselves, and get a little lucky. What do these things have in common? They’re all imaginary. Since UWorld monitors the names of other programs running on your computer when a test is active, you may find that you need to rename the executable of your chosen screenshot program.Unicorns. You may also have luck trying other screenshotting tools such as Greenshot or Lightshot. Method 3: Use a third-party screenshotting tool Of course, this approach doesn't do anything to mitigate UWorld's clipboard and copy-paste hijacking. OneNote will then drop into the background and allow you to clip any part of the last window you had open, including UWorld. On OneNote 20, go to the Insert tab and click the "Screen Clipping" button. If you're a heavy OneNote user like I am, you'll be pleased to find that OneNote has built in screenshotting functionality. Method 2: Use OneNote's Screen Clipping feature In addition, since UWorld is blissfully ignorant to the world outside the guest OS, you'll be able to take screenshots to your heart's content. With the guest OS's clipboard isolated, you won't have to worry about UWorld hijacking your clipboard ever again. In VirtualBox, the same option is aptly named "Clipboard Sharing" and you can set it to either Host-to-Guest mode or disable it entirely. In VMware, for example, make sure "Enable copy and paste" is unchecked in the VM Options / Guest Isolation section: Just make sure to disable clipboard sharing.
There are several free virtual machine solutions across all major platforms - VMware Player, VirtualBox, etc.
If you value multitasking, image quality that's not potato-tier, and the ability to use the clipboard and copy/paste unmolested while UWorld is running, the solution is to run UWorld in a virtual machine. Method 1: Run UWorld in a virtual machine Here's a few workarounds to make that happen. In any case, there are perfectly legitimate educational reasons for wanting to save content from UWorld for later reference. In any case, it's not like disabling the clipboard and copy/paste does anything to deter people from capturing UWorld content through alternative means such as taking a picture with their smartphone camera. Well, this is the 21st century, and we have better things to do on our computer besides sitting through an entire 40-question block, like checking Facebook and tagging ourselves on Twitter, amirite? #medstudentlife #studyhard #futuremd /s If you're a medical student using UWorld to study for USMLE Step 1, you've likely been admonished with this message (many times) more than once while a test is running.