How do you pace yourself/keep your focus up during a block?

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I have noticed a disturbing trend in both my NBMEs and Uworld exams: I constantly get more questions wrong in the 2nd half of the block. The last 10 or so questions are the worst for me. For whatever reason, my brain really slow down around question 25 or so and I find myself taking way longer to answer questions, and getting more of them wrong. Anyone else have this problem?
 
same thing happens to me... i think on the real deal the adrenaline rush will keep us foccused. hopefully.
 
i find myself thinking about how well or how poorly i will do on the block tha tim doing and when that happens i just.. yell at myself.. literally. in my head of course but it ell myself that i need to shut up and stop thinking about how well im going to do and focus on the question at hand and on getting every single question right (how well or how poorly lol)
 
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Me too. I missed 80% of my questions in the last two blocks of the NBME 🙁

From here on out, my plan is to try to take a full 7 blocks of test questions with the correct allotted break (wherever they come from - maybe 4 blocks of NBME and 3 of UWorld?) each weekend so at least I've simulated testing conditions 3 times before I have to do it for real.

I have no idea if it'll help or not.
 
It usually happens for me near the last block as well, but I'm definitely banking on adrenaline (and lots of sugar) to help me on test day.
 
i dont know.. a block of 46 questions doesnt feel that long to me... i guess when im on block 6+ it starts getting to you? granted ive never done a full 8 block simulation, only the 4 block ones you get with practice tests...
 
Another reason for obtaining more QBanks is so you can take 8 hours in a day and just do 322 questions and build up stamina.
 
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.

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