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Well,
its finally over and had a bit of time to reflect on the exam some.
I don't feel like I did overtly horrible about the exam, but I don't feel great about it either. There wasn't much there that I hadn't seen before, but many of the answers were just beyond my knowledge level. Things I probably would have known had I taken the exam right after my 2nd year of school rather than the key points sometimes highly in review books.
Things would be spelled out instead of given abbreviations. ie a granuloma would have been given as some sort of macrophage with epitheloid formation or something like that?
So its really hard to gage how I did. Things I did notice.
The questions were no where near as picky or as long as the qbank questions. I felt like the Appleton and Lange questions were a closer approximation to the test than qbank was. But topics covered in qbank were hy.
Closest example of the questions was the nbme exam.
I had a good deal of microbiology, some female path, endo path and phys and a good mix of mol cell and biochem.
Not too much in terms of pharm - maybe 4q per block at most.
behav was a 50-50 mix between biostats and behav questions. Not as many Doctor-patient relationship questions as I would have expected.
physio - some graphs, but some basic concepts too. But were things I had to take a min to think things through.
Histo was there, but incorporated into the other sections (physio, path, etc).
also I had a good deal of immuno on there. Might have been intermixed with the mol cell.
A lot of questions were integrations between subjects.
Very few questions were straight forward. Many questions required at least 1 hop of knowledge. LIke identifying the disease to know what drug is given to produce the side effect they were asking about.
this is what i can remember at the moment. I'll prob add/edit this later tonight or in the few days. I imagine I got more than a few typos or omissions in here (hands are freeeeeezing).
its finally over and had a bit of time to reflect on the exam some.
I don't feel like I did overtly horrible about the exam, but I don't feel great about it either. There wasn't much there that I hadn't seen before, but many of the answers were just beyond my knowledge level. Things I probably would have known had I taken the exam right after my 2nd year of school rather than the key points sometimes highly in review books.
Things would be spelled out instead of given abbreviations. ie a granuloma would have been given as some sort of macrophage with epitheloid formation or something like that?
So its really hard to gage how I did. Things I did notice.
The questions were no where near as picky or as long as the qbank questions. I felt like the Appleton and Lange questions were a closer approximation to the test than qbank was. But topics covered in qbank were hy.
Closest example of the questions was the nbme exam.
I had a good deal of microbiology, some female path, endo path and phys and a good mix of mol cell and biochem.
Not too much in terms of pharm - maybe 4q per block at most.
behav was a 50-50 mix between biostats and behav questions. Not as many Doctor-patient relationship questions as I would have expected.
physio - some graphs, but some basic concepts too. But were things I had to take a min to think things through.
Histo was there, but incorporated into the other sections (physio, path, etc).
also I had a good deal of immuno on there. Might have been intermixed with the mol cell.
A lot of questions were integrations between subjects.
Very few questions were straight forward. Many questions required at least 1 hop of knowledge. LIke identifying the disease to know what drug is given to produce the side effect they were asking about.
this is what i can remember at the moment. I'll prob add/edit this later tonight or in the few days. I imagine I got more than a few typos or omissions in here (hands are freeeeeezing).
