Thank you both!
Same around 70% on ASE. So many questions which i feel i overthought and made mistakes. Not sure if there is any correlation between ASE questions and the exam. I usually score average or above average on tests not sure how to take this. Do you usually do well on exams?
Congrats! Passed 69th percentile as well!
They send you an email with a link to the NBE website. My email came about ten minutes after my co-fellows
Nice
Agreed. It’s a money scam. Let’s call it what it is. Doesn’t test your ability to read bread and butter echo and half the stuff that I memorized for the test I forgot a week later.
If it was only on bread and butter, it would be like 50 questions long and everyone would get >90% of them right. Echo is fairly straightforward except for the 5-10% of edge cases where you need adjunct imaging.
That is the point exactly. We aren't in medical school anymore and these tests should be designed to ensure people can read echo at the quality required for clinical practice.... not so "x" amount of people fail and repay for the test. 5-10% of "edge" cases doesn't mean physics and congenital as cheap ways to fail people. This test in no way represented my knowledge of clinical echo reading.
Ya I agree, I think the test is nonsense. I think my post came off as oppositional but it's actually supposed to be in agreement. I've called it the 1000 dollar trivia test previously.
Thanks. Ultimately decided to do it because I have a kid and I wanted to prove that when you fail you can work hard and do it.
Sure, I think that bias exists for every exam we take but I think by this stage in the game most of us understand that! My issue wasn't really the minutia / zebras but rather the emphasis / number of questions on physics and congenital with little relevance to what we do. Just a cheap tactic of a test created to make money rather than "accredit" out echo reading skill.
Do you have a thready pulse?
Not sure can't hurt for sure but most imaging fellowships are not competitive.
In general I'm of the opinion that physics and congenital should both be on any advanced echo exam, but I do agree that the questions geared towards those topics (especially congenital) should be more common and clinically relevant than what they were on the ascexam. My question is, though, what percentage of the exam was physics and congenital? I don't know the numbers but my gut feeling is that they were a small enough percentage that one could've missed a ton of questions in both those topics and still have passed (assuming one did reasonably well on the other topics).
I took my test for the first time yesterday and did not do well. Would you please share with me what percentage of correct answers you got the first time you took it. I am trying to understand what may be the minimum score (%correct) needed to pass.
How much you score on the ASE exams ?
