Step 1: Is this real life?

Step 1 is upon us!   Failing a class this year has made me really nervous for Step 1.  I want to do really well on Step 1 to counteract that failed class.  I've heard that residency directors don't care about 1st and 2nd year grades, especially if you successfully remediate, but I don't quite believe that.  I've been perusing the internet trying to figure out how to study for Step 1, and it's been a little bit tough to find advice that I think is applicable to me.  I've also been hounding all my 3rd year friends with questions about how do balance studying for classes and study for Step 1, what should I do in terms of review courses, Kaplan, DIT, UWorld, First Aid, Review Books, etc.  I basically spent my weekend studying for my current class and figuring out how to study for Step 1.  I decided to post my plan on here because I know people find this blog looking for MCAT study advice, so hopefully I can do well enough that people want to take advice about Step 1 from me.

When I asked my friend for Step 1 advice, she asked, "well what score do you want?"  She didn't mean a vague "I want to crush Step 1" or "I want to pass", legit, "what.score.do.you.want?"  I don't know what I want to do yet, but I don't want to rule anything out (except neuro, and ob/gyn), but I'm interested in specialties like pediatrics (avg 221), emergency medicine (avg 223), , internal medicine (226), pathology (226), surgery (avg 227), and radiology (avg 240).  I know, it's a sundry list, but like I said, I just don't know yet.  The only thing these residencies have in common is that I need to break at least 220, in fact, I should be aiming more for 235-ish, and hope that when it's all over I want to go into pediatrics.  :)   So, goal is set: 235.  Now that I know what I want, I'm going to go out and get it.

I'm using 4 things to study for Step 1 based on everyone's advice/my online research:

1.) First Aid* (Duh)

2.) Pathoma* (I've been using it all year and I love love love it)

3.) UWorld*

4.) Doctors in Training* (heretofore referred to as DIT)

My plan before starting my dedicated study period is: Do ~30 UWorld Questions/Day and annotate the appropriate First Aid sections.  Additionally, DIT sends out 10-15 questions 3x/Week, and so far I've been keeping up with those.  Finally, I am watching the corresponding DIT primer videos for classes and trying to catch up on the ones from prior classes.  All the while, I am still going through Pathoma.

Wish me luck!**

*I have not been paid to advertise for any of these companies.
**For reference, a passing score on Step 1 is now 192.  :-/