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I only have pain and sleep link. Don't have C&A link.
I only have pain and sleep link. Don't have C&A link.
Rest assured that the exponential growth rate of posts here and ABPN website hits are being studied by those master statisticians. It'd fun to see...assuming I pass of course!I'm tempted to email them a link to this forum. Maybe it will guilt them into releasing scores.
Don't think grades are sent out during the weekend
Anyway, super annoying. My worry is that too many people passed with the changes, and they're trying to figure out how to fail more people.
This is called as poor strategy, like they developed the plan without figuring out how to do it - It doesn't make any sense that ABPN like organization - large, doing these kind of things ...
They've also still got a ton of stuff to work out with those vignettes -- we'll see how strongly I feel about them after I get my score.
ABPN is the small league compared with the testing groups we're used to. It's got nowhere near the same resources as the USMLE or MCAT people, so I'm not surprised by these issues. I agree, though, that I'm somewhat surprised by these issues -- presumably they had lots of data from previous years to determine the effects of switching their grading strategy.
They've also still got a ton of stuff to work out with those vignettes -- we'll see how strongly I feel about them after I get my score.
If I got a perfect score, those vignettes were still horrible. Bad questions are stil bad questions even if we happen to guess correctly.
I am so disappointed in this whole experience. I paid so much money (and before anyone even starts, I know it's the start of me paying a ton of money to the psychiatry gods, but before you have your first real job is a tough time to come up with thousands of dollars) for a terrible test that they can't figure out how to grade.
And half of the video to the vignettes you couldn't even see clearly. I even remember a standalone question about the role of social media right now - I was like what the heck is with this garbage
And to the above poster, yes I have been nauseous every morning and before I go to bed - it sucks
Well, what I would bank on is that if those options disappeared, you're royally screwed! Fortunately, sleep and pain are still there, but I don't take it to mean anything.So, you're saying when he failed last year the option to apply for the sub specialty boards disappeared a week or two before the results were out?
So, if we still have those options now, that means we passed? Lol
So, you're saying when he failed last year the option to apply for the sub specialty boards disappeared a week or two before the results were out?
So, if we still have those options now, that means we passed? Lol
I hope that the subspecialty board hack is true, but who knows with the ABPN. I also think that if we do pass, most of us will feel relief more than anything else at this point. One man's stomach can only churn so much! Release the scores!