EM NBME Shelf

[deleted709753]

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Took the shelf today. It was a beast! Way harder than the practice NBME (Form 1). Anyone else took it recently?

 

[Sterling_Archer]

Took the shelf today. It was a beast! Way harder than the practice NBME (Form 1). Anyone else took it recently?

Taking it in a few weeks, but I'll update when I get the score. What did you use to study for it? I'm still flip-flopping between Case Files and PreTest.

 

[peachesorangesapples]

So many vague questions not related to emergent conditions

 

[drumass]

So many vague questions not related to emergent conditions

just like real life EM

 

[deleted709753]

Taking it in a few weeks, but I'll update when I get the score. What did you use to study for it? I'm still flip-flopping between Case Files and PreTest.

I used pretest but didn't get to finish it. I thought it was good.

 

[takeurmeds02]

I just took it a little over a week ago, it was kinda really hard haha

 

[Sterling_Archer]

On the bright side, I took the SAEM exam at my last rotation and thought it was pretty reasonable

 

[deleted709753]

I ended up meeting the honors cutoff for the shelf, which was a relief. Don’t know my final grade yet though. I scored 9% below the practice nbme on the real shelf. For future test takers, don’t be fooled by your nbme form 1 practice. Real thing is much harder.

How do the practice SAEM tests correlate with the difficulty of the actual exam? I take the saem exam for the rotation i’m on now.

 

[Sterling_Archer]

I ended up meeting the honors cutoff for the shelf, which was a relief. Don’t know my final grade yet though. I scored 9% below the practice nbme on the real shelf. For future test takers, don’t be fooled by your nbme form 1 practice. Real thing is much harder.

How do the practice SAEM tests correlate with the difficulty of the actual exam? I take the saem exam for the rotation i’m on now.

I don't actually remember what I got on the SAEM practice exam specifically, but I think it ended up being fairly close. Practice was a few points higher than real. I only used CDEM and the quizlet cards from previous SAEM exams to study and got upper 80's, which met the cutoff for honors at my school. I would imagine it would be even easier if you've already done casefiles or pretest.