Endocrinology board exam in less than a week and I am scared to death

[hishamov]

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Hello All


The Endocrinology board exam is in less than a week and I am scared and terrified that I will not pass. I previously finished Endocrine society 2024 Board review questions and recently 2025 board questions. I also finished ESAP 2025 but my scores were not that great ~60s percent . I never scored more than 70% in any of them only after I repeat the incorrect tests. I am planning to do a mock exam where I spend 2-4 hours for 2 days answering in environment similar to exam. My ITE 2025 that I did long time ago score was bad at 56% correct . I have been trying to memorize or review high yield stuff that they frequently ask.

I am not sure how is the nature of this exam and with these scores that I made on the board prep courses make me wondering how I will perform in my real Exam.

My experience with ABIM internal medicine was not like that at all , I was easily scoring 70s-80s percent correct in MKSAP and Uworld and I did great in the Inservice exam (90s percentiles every year).


How do you think my situation is ?

 

[hishamov]

it seems no one is even interested in calming me down or provide some reassurance , anyway I am studying now and I am making a progress in the ITE exam.

 

[dozitgetchahi]

it seems no one is even interested in calming me down or provide some reassurance , anyway I am studying now and I am making a progress in the ITE exam.

Hey man, I’m a rheumatologist but I know what it was like to take those boards (see my post from 2023 about my own rheum boards experience).

Obviously the rheum and endo study materials are different. That’s the frustrating thing about subspecialty boards - there’s no Uworld or other major qbanks to use, you have to cobble together a bunch of stuff from different places.

Probably the most high yield option at this point is exactly what you’re doing now - lots of questions.

Also, the big thing to remember is that you don’t need a world beating score here. This isn’t like the steps, where the goal was to hit it out of the park. The passing threshold is fairly low. Nobody will ever see if you just passed by one point etc.

 

[hishamov]

Hey man, I’m a rheumatologist but I know what it was like to take those boards (see my post from 2023 about my own rheum boards experience).

Obviously the rheum and endo study materials are different. That’s the frustrating thing about subspecialty boards - there’s no Uworld or other major qbanks to use, you have to cobble together a bunch of stuff from different places.

Probably the most high yield option at this point is exactly what you’re doing now - lots of questions.

Thank you 🙏

 

[DrMetal]

it seems no one is even interested in calming me down

Do you drink? Whiskey always steadies my nerves. (I'm not an alcoholic if I've never been formally diagnosed)

Listen to @dozitgetchahi

Do you guys have to re-cert every 10 years too? What a scam . . .

 

[NotAProgDirector]

Other than the exam fee, there is no downside impact to failing. Other than you, no one will know you failed. At this point I'm sure it's too late to withdraw and get any sort of refund, so your best option is to power through and do as well as you can. Hopefully you pass and this is behind you. If not, then you'll need to decide if/when you want to attempt it again, and come up with a different study plan.