at what point is it no longer "luck"?

[rrrrr]

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so i've been making some pretty good guesses on NBME and UWSA questions, enough for me to score in the 240-260 range on the NBME 4,5,6,7, and UWSA 1,2. most of those guesses were educated guesses, but some were stabs in the dark. with that said, i feel like my scores dont truly reflect what i know. i'm afraid that my luck will not carry me through the real deal (tomorrow). at what point is it no longer "luck", and can actually be attributed to "knowledge". i'm paranoid that my good guesses on my practice assessments gave me a false sense of security going into the real thing tomorrow.

 

[gman33]

Doing well that many times is not just luck.
Part of test taking is learning how to come up with the right answer when you aren't totally sure. Some of it also has to do with the way they write questions. They can be vague and leave you with an unsure feeling when choosing an answer.

Just go in tomorrow and treat it like another practice test.
Whatever you are doing is working!

(not that it's just luck)

 

[username456789]

Just keep in mind as you're going that if you're feeling like you're just guessing on several, you've felt like that on most exams you've taken, so it's probably not a bad sign. Anything you feel is amplified exponentially on exam day. Just know that it's the same old feeling creeping in, and be confident that you've actually reasoned well enough to get you where you need to be.

(this is coming from a guy who feels like the luckiest man in the world after every single exam grade).

 

[cushie]

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[badasshairday]

Wow, with that many practice tests, it defintely is not luck. Rock that test tomorrow! Don't forget to come back and give us some feedback on what it was like, though!

 

[rrrrr]

well, i took it, and i feel like i did the same amount of guessing (most educated, some wild) as i did in previous tests. lets hope i still had some luck left in me.

 

[username456789]

well, i took it, and i feel like i did the same amount of guessing (most educated, some wild) as i did in previous tests. lets hope i still had some luck left in me.

Good luck, hope it comes back even higher than you wanted!

I seriously don't get this stuff, man. The worse I feel I did on a question block, the better I score. Like this morning. I KNOW that I didn't know a lot of the stuff, as there were many questions I really either felt like I was taking a stab in the dark, or was able to narrow a bunch down to two, and somehow guessed correctly on almost all of those toss-ups.

Yesterday I took a block that I almost aborted because I felt like it was going horribly, only to find out I scored awesome on it. The day before, I took a block that felt pretty ho-hum, kinda thought I was acing it, and I got rocked instead.

As much as the NUMBERS I've been getting disagree, I feel like I'm not really retaining enough info as I go, and sometimes wonder if I should've planned to go through FA more quickly (instead of reading RR and BRS Phys along side) to see everything a greater number of times. There are a lot of times where I know that if I had just remembered what was listed on the FA pages for the listed diseases in the answer choices, I'd know which symptoms fit perfectly.

 

[2001bmw330xi]

I seriously don't get this stuff, man. The worse I feel I did on a question block, the better I score. Like this morning. I KNOW that I didn't know a lot of the stuff, as there were many questions I really either felt like I was taking a stab in the dark, or was able to narrow a bunch down to two, and somehow guessed correctly on almost all of those toss-ups.

Yesterday I took a block that I almost aborted because I felt like it was going horribly, only to find out I scored awesome on it. The day before, I took a block that felt pretty ho-hum, kinda thought I was acing it, and I got rocked instead.

As much as the NUMBERS I've been getting disagree, I feel like I'm not really retaining enough info as I go, and sometimes wonder if I should've planned to go through FA more quickly (instead of reading RR and BRS Phys along side) to see everything a greater number of times. There are a lot of times where I know that if I had just remembered what was listed on the FA pages for the listed diseases in the answer choices, I'd know which symptoms fit perfectly.

I don't think you're alone. 👍

 

[PokerDoc]

I think you owe Guiness a few rounds for all your luck 😉

grats on being finished