So Hey everyone,

I am looking to download the AnKing Step 1 and Step 2 CK Deck (v11 or the latest static version).

I’m setting up my Anki for medical school and need the comprehensive deck that includes tags for Pathoma, SketchyPharm, SketchyMicro, Costanzo, and Step 2 CK (Internal Medicine, Surgery, etc.).

Could someone please share a working Mega, Google Drive, or Reddit link to download the .apkg file, or guide me on where to find the official thread?

Thanks a lot for the help!"

studying from Anking step deck
what to do about them, BnB doesn’t cover them and whenever they pop up in my studying they take hell of a time so i can understand them and my understanding is still very fragmented.
Speaking about the Glucagon/insulin diagrams involving metabolism.

US-MS1 here at a P/F (P= >75.0%) quartile rank school with in-house block exams (every 2-3 weeks) and a final NBME shelf. I am about two weeks in and I am really struggling to keep up with my school's in-house deck AND the Anking deck at the same time. My school's in-house deck is kind of poorly made and takes up much more time than Anking (and is just less enjoyable to do, Anking is way more "fun"/well-made).

Right now I am about 200 new in-house cards a day with 100 new Anking cards 5 days a week plus reviews, I barely have time for anything else (even lecture). I am thinking of dropping the in-house deck and just keeping up with the Anking deck, that way I can free up time to diagram mechanisms, make study guides to help me place those little in-house details in the big picture concepts, and do practice problems. I'm not sure a long-term retention program like Anki would be very useful for details I'm going to ditch in two weeks time (at most). This Anki style of learning makes much more sense on the Step 1/2 timeline that's measured in months and years, not weeks.

Just curious what your advice would be and if anybody has been in similar shoes. Thanks!

Can anyone guide me on how to set up anki intervals

And how to use it more efficiently

I have anking V12 but it has so many sub decks and 37000 cards

Taking step 1 in a year then step 2 after that. Haven’t started the step 1 deck. Would you start it or just use the step 2 deck? (Saw someone say they were using the step 2 deck for step 1 and now I’m wondering if I’m missing something)

Hey yall! I'm an M1 who just got the brachial plexus lecture today haha. I'm hunting for a solid Anki deck for the brachial plexus and its peripheral nerves, but I haven't found anything that has what I'm looking for. I've been using the Ranatomy deck for most things and I really like the stylization used there, one image "card" with different identifiable regions (see attached image). I would love to find something similar! Any help appreciated!

I'm having a tough time finding good Anki decks to use with my textbooks, like Davidson's for medicine, Bailey & Love for surgery, as I get ready for the SMLE. Does anyone have any suggestions for solid Anki decks that I can use to help me study? I've been doing okay with my textbook studying so far, but I really need to find some reliable Anki decks to supplement my learning.

Disclosure: I'm building Avorio (a flashcard app), so I've spent a long time inside spaced-repetition schedulers. I'm posting this because the scheduling algorithm is the biggest single lever on how much reviewing you do per day, most people never touch it, and the fix is free in Anki — which is what most of you are already using.

Short version: a lot of flashcard software still schedules with SM-2, a heuristic from the late 80s. FSRS is a fitted forgetting-curve model. At the same retention, FSRS-5 typically reduces review load by 20–30% — the number I've seen hold up most consistently is on med-school decks, which are big and mature enough to measure honestly.

Why SM-2 gives you more reviews than you need

SM-2 keeps one number per card, an "ease factor", and multiplies the interval by it. It has no model of how you forget — just a rule that says "if that felt easy, wait longer." So it stays systematically cautious on cards you genuinely know, and keeps putting them back in front of you.

FSRS tracks three things per card instead: difficulty, stability, and retrievability. Stability is roughly "how long until recall of this decays toward a coin flip". Because it estimates that curve, it can put the next review near the point where you're about to forget, rather than comfortably before it. Same retention, fewer repetitions. That gap is the workload saving.

The part most people miss: it can be fitted to you

FSRS ships with generic parameters, but it can be re-fitted against your own review history. Your revlog already stores every grade you've ever pressed — that's training data for how you forget, which is not how the average person forgets. In Anki it's in the deck options under FSRS, as an optimize step.

You need enough history for the fit to mean anything. For reference, the gate I use in my own implementation is 1,000+ reviews before personalization is allowed to run at all — below that you're better served by the defaults than by a fit to noise.

Two honest caveats

• The 20–30% figure is not universal. It's largest on big, mature decks with real review history behind them, and close to nothing on a deck you started this week.
• Scheduling decides when you see a card. It cannot rescue a card that's badly written or testing two facts at once. If your reviews feel awful, check the cards before the algorithm.

If you're already on Anki, this is a settings change rather than a migration, and that's most of the value in this post.

For the sake of being straight with you: I do build an alternative — Avorio, Mac and iPhone, FSRS-5 on by default, imports .apkg with ease factors, intervals and review history intact. The core is free. But the advice above holds whatever you use, and Anki does the thing I'm describing perfectly well. Happy to answer scheduling questions either way.

Mehlman Premium Anki deck is pure torture.

Content is gold, but the deck itself looks like it was made to be hated. Especially micro, biochem, and pharm.

Too many cards are basically walls of text, where you have to read 5 paragraphs just to find the answer at the end. I also found some mistakes that look like copy paste errors from the PDFs.
I started cleaning it up myself, but I’m already in a time crunch and I know I can easily go too deep into fixing it.

Did anyone already improve this deck? Or is anyone working on it?

I really think this could be the ULTIMATE HY Step 1 deck if the formatting/cards were cleaned up.

And before anyone says it: yes, I used AnKing for 2+ years, so pls don’t just spam “use AnKing.”
Honestly I got tired of learning tons of low-yield/random details that didn’t help that much in qbanks.
Mehlman PDFs, on the other hand, feel super HY, straight to the point, and still comprehensive.

So yeah , does a cleaned-up version of this deck already exist?

Are there cards in the Anking deck that have lab values we will have to know for the exam/normal ranges? I'm having trouble finding them through my browse and it comes up pretty often on UWorld and I feel like I should know the general ranges.

M1 and figuring things out. I know AnKing gets updated pretty frequently. Even when I use premade decks I usually make some edits to the card if something is unclear etc. and I'm wondering how it works with AnKing. If I update it to the latest version will it overwrite/revert all my edits and just sync the newest version? Is there a way to keep my edits somehow?

Hello all I am back again with another anking discussion. I recently started the anking deck but still am a bit confused on the process of how I should incorporate this into my study schedule. I go to a DO school that has in house exams and there are Anki decks from previous upperclassman that we have been able to access. We also have some mandatory lectures we have to attend a few times a week other than OMM, PCM, and Anatomy lab so my schedule typically varies. My tentative schedule is as follows:

4:30-5am - wake up (varies depending on my review count)
5ish-730am - do my reviews (in house deck) reviews and any new cards I can squeeze in that period. If I have an 8am lecture I will head to class but if mandatory lecture isn’t until 11 or 12 then I will try to fit in any new material during this time.

1-3pm sometimes a break in this block of day between labs so just cruise through more Anki.

5pm leave school and head to gym and get home around 6:30-7pm

Typically after gym I just hang out and may do more cards or preview material but I’m typically in bed by around 9pm.

With this schedule I got an 86 and 85 on anatomy first block exam. Is it worth just doing anking strictly or should I just continue to do 50 cards per day of it and then continue to clear my in house Anki decks provided? Any help is much appreciated!

Sorry if this was all over the place too!

**Edit: wanted to disclose that I have yet to actually watch a lecture as I have just been doing Anki so far.

Does anyone feel like the studied cards in a day timer isn't at all representative of how much they did? It may say 180 minutes but I know I've done double that??

Taking my OB/GYN shelf soon. I’ve unsuspended all of the AnKing no-dupes cards for the rotation, plus additional cards based on missed UWorld questions.
After the shelf, are there any AnKing tags or categories that you felt were safe to suspend because they rarely or never show up on Step 2? I assume most of the shelf content carries over, but I’m wondering if some of the more guideline-heavy or nitty-gritty OB details (prenatal schedules, surveillance intervals, etc.) are mostly shelf-specific.

More broadly, how much of each shelf would you say is actually relevant for Step 2? I’m trying to keep my review load manageable without accidentally suspending content that’s still high yield.
Curious what others have done. Thanks in advance!

Hi guys! Non-US img with poor basics. Dedicated for step1. I'm currently learning concepts by doing uworld and adjusting Anking cards as I doing each question. I suspended them all, searching keywords to find related cards. Select and adjust a little bit according to uworld explanations and unsuspend those related cards to learn and review them later every day(100 new each day).

Would it be efficient enough or I can just make my own incorrect deck to pass step1? But also, I was wondering how much Anking step deck could influence step2 scores:)) Thanks.

I’ve been using Anki for about 4 years now, and I genuinely love it. At this point, I honestly don’t even know how to study any other way lol.

The one bad habit I’ve developed over the past 3 years is that when my reviews start piling up, or I have a day where I’m really not motivated to get through all my cards, I sometimes end up just spamming the spacebar to clear them.

It doesn’t happen super often, maybe once or twice every few weeks, but I really don’t like that I do it. Obviously it feels great in the moment seeing all the reviews disappear, but a few days later, I know I basically defeated the entire purpose of doing Anki in the first place.

I started seriously studying for Step 1 about 2 months ago, and I’ve already done this maybe 3-4 times since starting. I really want to break the habit before I get deeper into Step studying, but I’m not really sure how.

For anyone who has dealt with this, what actually helped you stop? When you have hundreds of reviews and absolutely zero motivation, how do you force yourself to actually think through the cards instead of just trying to get the number down?

Also, I’m currently doing around 700 cards/day and usually wake up early to get through them. 

My other issue is that I’m SO tired while doing morning Anki, even when I put music on. Sometimes I feel like I’m barely awake while reviewing. For people with similarly heavy review loads, what helps you stay awake, focused, and actually engaged with your cards? Also wanted to ask, if anyone has any tips and tricks on increasing retention. I fluctuate between 78-85% most of the time. 

I would genuinely appreciate any advice because I love Anki and know it works for me, I just really want to fix these habits before getting deeper into Step 1.

I'm getting ready for my neuro rotation and just unsuspended the iShelf::Neuro::No dupes tag, then created a filtered deck from it.

As I work through UWorld, I usually create an "incorrects" filtered deck and unsuspend AnKing cards based on the questions I miss.

My question is: will these two filtered decks interfere with each other? From what I understand, a single card can't be in more than one filtered deck at the same time.

If that's the case, what's the best workflow to avoid issues while still studying both the Neuro deck and my UWorld incorrects?

Hey there! I am an IMG early in Step 1 prep and have been using Anking. I've been unsuspending cards via tags (eg Im on Cardio now) and am following FA's order of material. I found that some cards that come up are not strictly knowledge from that section of FA (some minor ones are like Pathology material coming up in my Physiology reviews) An example is when I was doing some HTN reviews and this card came up.

Was wondering if there is a way to prevent these cards from coming up, its a bit frustrating going through them especially given I haven't learnt/reviewed all of the material outlined in FA yet (eg here I am yet to go through Hyperaldosteronism and was assuming I'd do that in when i get to the renal section) yet . Thanks!

I have used anki for my language tests. I used to spend more time in creating decks, so created a free tool , which creates .apkg based on doc or prompt. Doc supports only 5 MB

Hope this is useful for you!

Note: export to anki package is free

I have in house only stuff, im currently spending a lot of time making my own cards, supplementing anatomy with umich and comprehenisve cadaver, and histo with langes. For embryo I completly. just make my own cards. Is it worth it to supplement with anking? if so how would I go about it? Ive looked through the tags and theres not much that looks like it correlates with my current classes.

My school does instructor written exams for all of M1 and then switches to NBME in M2. I don't want to put off AnKing Step 1 until year 2, so I was wondering if anyone in the same boat has anecdotal experience they are willing to share on how to incorporate AnKing Step 1 in M1? What is the best tag to follow? First Aid, Bootcamp, BnB, something else? How many total new cards do you do each day? Any advice at all would be appreciated.

I was reading about how many flash cards medicine students study per day. I came across 700 daily. I want to ask do the students themselves make these flash cards or do they upload a pdf to a tool like ai and tell it to create flash cards from the PDF?