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Who is testing next month? Seems like other years there were "official" threads for the dates
 
So is anyone else taking this test? What’s everyone doing this last week?
 
I’m debating quitting anki this last week so I can do 2 or 3 more nbmes. I just worry that’ll backfire if I don’t do well and end up with 2 weeks of reviews I have to get through somehow.
 
The Kube of Kubes said:
I’m debating quitting anki this last week so I can do 2 or 3 more nbmes. I just worry that’ll backfire if I don’t do well and end up with 2 weeks of reviews I have to get through somehow.
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There's a delay anki cards add-on that allows you to postpone all your reviews x amount of days. So if you take a 7 day break it moves all of your unsuspended card due dates back 7 days (including the ones that aren't due on any of those days you are pushing it back). Hope that makes sense lol. Heres the link.

 
rypatel201 said:
There's a delay anki cards add-on that allows you to postpone all your reviews x amount of days. So if you take a 7 day break it moves all of your unsuspended card due dates back 7 days (including the ones that aren't due on any of those days you are pushing it back). Hope that makes sense lol. Heres the link.

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No way!!! This is huge man! Thank you so much!
 
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The Kube of Kubes said:
How’d everyone feel?
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I think it was fair, more on the difficult side. There were too many questions where I narrowed it down and guessed from there. I wasn’t expecting that many risk factors and ethical questions tho
 
Felt like the first 2 blocks were fine, the last 2 were much harder
 
Hhoff.13 said:
I think it was fair, more on the difficult side. There were too many questions where I narrowed it down and guessed from there. I wasn’t expecting that many risk factors and ethical questions tho
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Yeah there were way more risk factor questions than I expected
 
Yea feels like I got bodied. Like you said, narrowed it down to 2 answers and just guessed on most of them. It felt like it was it more lower yield topics, but idk. Feel like all my easy points weren’t there in biostats, psych and biochem. Those sections boost me up usually.
 
Also, I'm surprised by how they never asked for a specific drug name; most pharm qs were MOA
 
Scores usually come the week after on friday right?
 
I thought it would be saturday, what score do you guys think is your cutoff for a retake
 
Hhoff.13 said:
I thought it would be saturday, what score do you guys think is your cutoff for a retake
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6 7 Big Chungus GIF
 
Yea same 67 haha. Felt like im in the 50s tho on that one. Will definitely need to change things up these next 5 months.
 
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First two blocks went crazy. Second two it felt much better.
 
First 10 questions had me wondering what I just got myself into lol. I think it got better later on but it was definitely the hardest out of any of the recent NBMEs or Free 120.
 
So is British Sign Language that much different than American Sign Language?
 
Wish they changed CBSE to P/F, just like Step -1.
 
aa1712 said:
So is British Sign Language that much different than American Sign Language?
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This question was hella annoying 🤣

Just reschedule call the main ALS interpreter I guess
 
I had to waste my valentines getting wanded at prometric I’m retaking anything below an 85
Hhoff.13 said:
I thought it would be saturday, what score do you guys think is your cutoff for a retake
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Is the curve for the specific form based on med students or the dental round?
 
Didn't feel like the questions reflected the style of questions or content on NBMEs. If you're gonna ask us about bosentan MOA on 5/8 of your last practice exams then don't expect us to recite CYP450 enzymes on game day. Extreme example but the idea still holds
 
yourlocaltoothguy said:
Didn't feel like the questions reflected the style of questions or content on NBMEs. If you're gonna ask us about bosentan MOA on 5/8 of your last practice exams then don't expect us to recite CYP450 enzymes on game day. Extreme example but the idea still holds
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They did ask about Bosentan though right 🤣
 
Is it just me or there was not a bosentan question right?
 
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The Kube of Kubes said:
70?? We ain’t retaking anything over 65 lmaoooo
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Suit yourself, fam. I’d just argue having a score that starts with a “7” will open more doors. Mid-to-high 60s isn’t bad though. You’ll get in somewhere.
 
Punished Angeleno said:
Suit yourself, fam. I’d just argue having a score that starts with a “7” will open more doors. Mid-to-high 60s isn’t bad though. You’ll get in somewhere.
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Wouldn’t this depend on your rank? If your class rank is really good maybe you can squeeze by with mid 60s, bad ranks might need 75+ right?
 
Hhoff.13 said:
Wouldn’t this depend on your rank? If your class rank is really good maybe you can squeeze by with mid 60s, bad ranks might need 75+ right?
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Not necessarily. CBSE has always been king, especially for 6-year programs. I think you have a better chance of matching with a high CBSE + average class rank than you do with an average CBSE + high class rank. That's not to say you can't get by with a score in the mid 60s. I just don't think it's crazy to retake a 65 to maximize your chances.
 
Punished Angeleno said:
Not necessarily. CBSE has always been king, especially for 6-year programs. I think you have a better chance of matching with a high CBSE + average class rank than you do with an average CBSE + high class rank. That's not to say you can't get by with a score in the mid 60s. I just don't think it's crazy to retake a 65 to maximize your chances.
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I mean I get what you’re saying. I just don’t understand what’s changed since the old scoring system from just a few years ago. I feel like an old 70 was what people were shooting for to be considered competitive, which is a 63 EPC these days. Now all I read is that it’s still a 70, but a 70 EPC to be competitive, which was a 75 back then. Idk, I guess scores have gone up but who knows.
 
The Kube of Kubes said:
I mean I get what you’re saying. I just don’t understand what’s changed since the old scoring system from just a few years ago. I feel like an old 70 was what people were shooting for to be considered competitive, which is a 63 EPC these days. Now all I read is that it’s still a 70, but a 70 EPC to be competitive, which was a 75 back then. Idk, I guess scores have gone up but who knows.
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If I'm not mistaken, I remember 75 being the new benchmark right before the scoring system changed. But yeah, averages have gone up for sure. I had one of the attendings at my dental school recommend I retake the CBSE after scoring in the low 70s EPC lmao. I decided against it but I noticed the vast majority of the applicants I interviewed with scored in the 70s, many even in the 80s. It's insane, man.
 
Punished Angeleno said:
If I'm not mistaken, I remember 75 being the new benchmark right before the scoring system changed. But yeah, averages have gone up for sure. I had one of the attendings at my dental school recommend I retake the CBSE after scoring in the low 70s EPC lmao. I decided against it but I noticed the vast majority of the applicants I interviewed with scored in the 70s, many even in the 80s. It's insane, man.
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It was also inflated because of Covid which is right around when the new scoring system came out
 
Should be around 1:30 PM at most
 
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