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Step II Another STEP 2 CS freak out

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Recently took CS in ATL. Except for 2-3 rooms, no one asked me a challenging question. Even the question those rooms asked were more like a statement ex. "oh im embarrased about blah blah", or whatever. For rest of the rooms, i would ask them if they had any questions for me, or if i could help them with anything else, they would just say "oh i cant think of anything right now" or something similar to that. I am extremely worried about this. Bc i've read people say that they got asked challenging question in EVERY SINGLE ROOM.

Can anyone share their experience?
 
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Flash Forward said:
Recently took CS in ATL. Except for 2-3 rooms, no one asked me a challenging question. Even the question those rooms asked were more like a statement ex. "oh im embarrased about blah blah", or whatever. For rest of the rooms, i would ask them if they had any questions for me, or if i could help them with anything else, they would just say "oh i cant think of anything right now" or something similar to that. I am extremely worried about this. Bc i've read people say that they got asked challenging question in EVERY SINGLE ROOM.

Can anyone share their experience?
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Hi I have my exam on Thursday how was your experience?
 
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mariines said:
Hi I have my exam on Thursday how was your experience?
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The whole experience was really smooth. You get there by 7:45, and your cases start around 8:45-8:50....and they run til around 3:15-3:20. I think 8 of the 12 cases were directly from the FA. I had 1 super weird case, but rest of them were straight forward, even the ones that weren't from the FA. Like i mentioned in my OP, not many rooms asked me a challenging question. I wonder if they didn't ask me bc it wasnt warranted for the case, or if bc i already explained everything in my closure. My closures were kinda detailed...usually around 2-3 mins.

Also, except for 2 rooms, I finished all rooms with anywhere between 30 secs to 3 mins left. And for the 2 rooms, i finished exactly on time.

Let me know if you want to know more, ill be more than happy to answer any questions.
 
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Flash Forward said:
The whole experience was really smooth. You get there by 7:45, and your cases start around 8:45-8:50....and they run til around 3:15-3:20. I think 8 of the 12 cases were directly from the FA. I had 1 super weird case, but rest of them were straight forward, even the ones that weren't from the FA. Like i mentioned in my OP, not many rooms asked me a challenging question. I wonder if they didn't ask me bc it wasnt warranted for the case, or if bc i already explained everything in my closure. My closures were kinda detailed...usually around 2-3 mins.

Also, except for 2 rooms, I finished all rooms with anywhere between 30 secs to 3 mins left. And for the 2 rooms, i finished exactly on time.

Let me know if you want to know more, ill be more than happy to answer any questions.
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Thank you so much for your experience, I really appreciate it, yes the challenging questions maybe since you were detailed in your closure they didn't have to ask you anything. Are you an IMG or AMG??
 
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I think 12/12 of my cases had some special tag-line that I could tell was the "challenge" question/statement. It wasn't always a question but there was something said by each and every one that I could tell was fishing for me to respond to.

Similar examples were: "this makes me embarrassed", "do you think I will be able to ___ after this?"....those sorts of things. Not necessarily discrete questions that need answers, but you know it when you hear it
 
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Philosopher Jagger said:
I think 12/12 of my cases had some special tag-line that I could tell was the "challenge" question/statement. It wasn't always a question but there was something said by each and every one that I could tell was fishing for me to respond to.

Similar examples were: "this makes me embarrassed", "do you think I will be able to ___ after this?"....those sorts of things. Not necessarily discrete questions that need answers, but you know it when you hear it
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Where did you take this exam?
 
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just a quick question about ATL center
I know they changed their location starting April exams
Can I bring in a full backpack (regular size) in the morning to the center? I'm wondering if the locker or locked space is big enough to put a backpack in ...
 
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texasholdems said:
just a quick question about ATL center
I know they changed their location starting April exams
Can I bring in a full backpack (regular size) in the morning to the center? I'm wondering if the locker or locked space is big enough to put a backpack in ...
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Sorry, Chicago tester here. But assuming they are all the same, there is ample room for a normal backpack in the storage room
 
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