was one of the people that took the exam on the 27th when they accidentally "coded it for a half day" exam, and one of the people that ended up finishing it. don't remember too much about it, outside of feeling more rushed than normal but managed to squeeze in under the 4 hour half-way point which ended up really being the end point. there were a handful of 'comlex' type questions which i left a note for advising them that their question was outside the scope of what our knowledge was expected to be, and the OMM was nothing you won't be able to handle with a night or two with savarese ahead of the exam. One or two random chapman's points that I missed but I really didn't feel like committing all of them to memory as I was more interested in learning real medicine for the USMLE.
it wasn't as horrible of an experience as i've heard some people describe it ("Pt has a rash. what is it?" question stems weren't that vague, but were still lacking info that would help guide you towards a right diagnosis after narrowing it down to 2 or 3. Judgment calls. So wouldn't be surprised if I did well vs did poorly. More frustrating were the questions where there were multiple correct answers. I'm not talking about "next best step" type questions, I'm talking about two answer choices were clearly correct (also wrote it in the comment section.)
All in all, just glad it's over with. Finished up with USMLE's Step 2 two days later on Friday. +NBOME called me yesterday to advise that I had two options to take. Redo the entire test, or sit on my score of the test I've already taken. Somewhere in there I was hoping for secret option c where I can wait for my scores to come out then decide whether or not I want to retake it. (402 or above? I'll take that.) I'm not sure how I feel about it because the second I noticed that the timer didn't reset for the second half of the exam, I didn't really take time to notice if the questions were ridiculous or not...I was just answering stuff to try and make it in time. I feel like I reasoned out things to the best of my ability, but know that it can easily go wrong given the testing situation. I'm probably not going to retake it because I don't want to deal with the hassle of rescheduling the exam, my fourth year elective/audition rotations start in two days, and I want to say I passed. Just curious how the curve will work if there's only like 10-20 people that really finished the exam. Pretty sure we're not all taking the same exam anyways, but people have implied otherwise, and would be a brutal,odd curve with a n=20.
I read SU2M throughout the year, ran thru Uworld 1x alongside each clerkship (59% avg), did DIT + SU2S2 in the middle of my last rotation. UWorld again (77% avg). The last week I think I did 80%ish of COMQUEST.
Took the NBOME my school administered 4 weeks out. Took two NBME's and the UWSA (like 3 months, 2 months and 3 weeks out.) Didn't felt like it would be productive to do it towards the end because I would have rather been doing UW questions or reading and actually learning a new thing or two.
