Step 1 covers an enormous amount of material, which tempts a lot of students into trying to re-learn all of it from scratch during dedicated. A more sustainable approach treats dedicated as a period for practice and reinforcement, not first exposure.
Front-load first exposure earlier
Content review during preclinical years doesn't need to be exam-focused, but it should leave you with a working foundation. Dedicated time is far more effective when it's spent applying knowledge in practice questions rather than encountering topics for the first time.
Let question performance set your priorities
A study plan built entirely in advance can't account for what you actually don't know yet. Tracking performance by topic and adjusting weekly lets your weakest areas get the most attention, instead of an even split across everything.
Simulate before you need to
Full-length timed blocks under real conditions reveal pacing problems that untimed review never will. Running at least a few of them before the actual exam turns test-day pacing into a solved problem rather than a live one.