Advice needed!!!

[sunyD]

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Hey guys,

I don't post too often but I could use some advice. I'm a little distraught over my practice NBME 11 score that I took today. I scored around the same as my first practice exam which was UWorld exam 1. I got around a 500 on both and that was two weeks ago, before I started my dedicated prep.

The odd thing is that I do really well on the UWorld qbank on top of that. Last three were 78, 69, 69%. It just seems that I'm really inconsistent which is fine if I knew why. Overall, I felt the questions on the NBME had a slightly different format that UWorld. But I don't think that would cause such a huge disparity. So what am I missing? Anyone else experience the same thing? Appreciate any input. Thanks!

 

[notcuttingit]

Join the club? Sorry.

I also got the same on my first NBME after 2 weeks of studying as I did on my pre-dedicated-study school assessment. A previous school assessment, before finishing the semester, put me much higher, and I had written off the last one as me not focusing because it was the day after our last exam.

I know my problem is inconsistency in the subjects: some I can get at least 80% right no problem, a few I'm at like 50%, and some in the middle. Does it look that way for you? If so, you have an easy way forward, focusing on your week areas.

Not that I can give much advice. But I can commiserate!

edit: I'm also scoring like that on UWorld, by subject. It's the subjects I haven't done on UWorld that I'm not doing well in. This means once we finishing UWorld we should be better off.

 

[sunyD]

Well, it's always good to know I'm not the only one!

Yeah I also have a few weak areas but they're not that much weaker. I haven't reviewed general path or micro yet but it'll happen. Hopefully I do better next week.