Took it today. I'm no SDN testing superstar.
1st 4 blocks I felt like I was acing it. Had lunch, did another block fine, then block 6 rocked me, I marked about 1/4 of it. Block 7 was ok. Then came the final block, I marked just about half it. I'm glad it came at the end because it would have crushed my spirits if I had that beast of block early on. Unfortunately for a lot of those marked q's I just didn't know what they were getting at or how to choose the right answer, I don't thinking studying the resources I had more would have helped, unless similar q's were in UW. It left me wondering are there experimental q's on the test?
I did have 1 verbatim repeat from somewhere I don't know if it was UW or one of the NBME's. There were ~<10 of each, biostats, EKGs, radiology images, listen with a stethoscope, images of random stuff, a couple of drug ads which were cake, an abstract which was ridiculously difficult. There were a few screening guideline q's which I wondered if they accounted for the lastest guidelines or not, I answered with new ones. I had some really tricky pysch q's which I still don't know what the right answer is.
UW 68%, only 30% completed during study period (one block a day)
45% completed during year 58% ave
all unused, mostly tutor, sometimes regular timed
NBME 2 202 before study period
NBME 4 232 1 week before test
18 days to study
Completed DIT using step up. I felt like they did a good job.
re-read DIT manual in last two days just 3-q warm up, quick quizzes and end of session quizzes. I found that DIT and UW mostly covered the same HY points. I wish I had more time to do more UW and re-review step-up, but it is what it is.
Step 1 just below 230.
I'm really hoping for a 240, but I doubt it'll happen.
The worse part of this all is now I have to do it all over again + OMM on Monday. MD students have it easy.