Failed twice in Step 2. Need help !!

[rosemerry1]

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This was my second failure in Step 2. totally baffled and utterly frustrated. Took Kaplan's Prep Course for Step 2 , Qbank ?( ~ 72%) , Qbook. In both the tests, I had left atleast 10-15 questions because of time constraint. Since I'd graduated 5 years back, things look pretty down for me. Friends around are asking me to go for Brochert Mock questions, Crush the Boards and NMS. I had done Qbank only once. Not sure whether I should do it twice as stated in a couple of threads. Is there a particular strategy for answering long questions in the test ? Lot of threads talk about doing lots and lots of questions. Any suggestions where I could get lots of 'real test-like' questions , apart from Qbank, Qbook and NMS ? Help would be really appreciated.

 

[Pureride]

Dear Rosemerry!
Its not the end of the world.
If you were scoring 72's on Qbank you probably just were one of the unlucky ones that had a tough test. I also heard that the Brochert Question book is good. I have a CD with appelton and lange that I am not using. It has a lot of questions but I havent heard much about it.
If you want you can email me at
[email protected]

 

[Apollyon]

Oh my, sorry to hear it...I barely broke 200 on Step I and II (and damned myself with faint praise), and feel it's because I didn't do questions - the two things that my friends hung their hats on were Kaplan and GAZILLIONS of questions; considering there's a pool of about 60,000 questions, if you do 3 or 4000, you'll have seen a good number of the actual ones, and relatively nothing should be even a remote surprise (how many ways can they ask a question?). To find questions, though, you might have to suck it up and do Qbank, because there just aren't a lot of sources for good, realistic questions.

You CAN do it, though - just WORK IT!!!!