Hilarious Step 2 story

[Jatpot]

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Wouldn't it be hilarious if you planned on taking Step 2, got yourself all psyched up and showed up at the testing center at 8am...waited for 3.5 hours b/c the 'server was down' only to have to reschedule in the end for Friday because they couldn't see the problem being fixed today?

Wait...that happened to me today. Maybe it isn't so funny...

 

[MonkeyRalph]

whoa...that sucks... I'm so sorry...
I don't know what I would've done... probably freaked out and cried all day...not really, but still that's horrible

 

[cbdoctor]

Wait...that happened to me today. Maybe it isn't so funny...

You're in Chicago? Downtown Prometric site? greeaaaaat. I take it on Saturday over there.

Sorry to hear that story.

 

[Jabez]

Hey man, sorry to hear that.
If it makes you feel any better, the exact thing happened to me for my Step 1.. I was meant to take it on a Wednesday and then waited for 4.5 hours until they concluded that they couldn't retrieve the "security file" from the server.. They then told me to come back on the next Monday (since the testing center was only open Mon-Wed), and, of course, I had plans to travel overseas with my girlfriend on the coming Friday.. In the end, I convinced them to open the testing center on Thursday just for me, and they did - 2 hours later than they told they would. I cannot even begin to describe how I felt waiting for those guys from 8 til 10am on that fateful Thursday.

So bottomline - **** happens. Just don't ever let it get to you.
Best of luck.

 

[Jatpot]

Yeah, I'm over it. It's tomorrow and I'm flying out of the country on Sunday so I've been doing so much for my move that I haven't studied any more, but in a good way I also haven't had time to dwell on my bad luck.

I'm actually not in Chicago at the moment, just haven't updated since my electives in December. I live in Sydney (hence the moving out of the country thing above). They've fixed the problem anyway.

I don't envy that happening with Step 1....I feel heaps better about Step 2 than I did about 1 and that just might have broken me if it had happened. Hopefully it won't affect my score by more than a couple points. They should probably buy me lunch to, right?!!