I'm pretty depressed

[juddson]

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Having worked my self up to pretty consistent 75%'s on Q-bank, I'm now scoring in the mid 60's, and I just can't seem to get the score up. I'm burned out and tired and starting not to care. In fact, I'm starting not to care so much that I'm thinking of moving my test up (which is only 10 days away as it is) just to get it over with. I'm losing my motivation to do well on this thing and am now in a generalized full-bore funk.

Maybe I need a few days off.

Judd

 

[Bones2008]

I want you to know I'm being totally honest when I say this: congratulations. you're ready to take your test. consistent 75's on Qbank is awesome for sure. don't let this little mid-60's "funk" get to you. the same thing happened to me and others that I know. move your test up. I'm serious. move it up if you can and take the damned thing. the litmus test for knowing you're ready is feeling how you feel right now. congrats!

 

[xjacob]

Yeah, I'd move it up. Actually, I was in a similar situation. 2 weeks before the test, I stopped being able to study etc. etc., while doing well on qbank. I thought about moving it up, but then decided not to. Now I'm 5 days away from the test, and I wish I did move it. I have barely done anything in the past days, and I feel like I'm even starting to forget stuff. Baaaad.

 

[juddson]

Yeah, I'd move it up. Actually, I was in a similar situation. 2 weeks before the test, I stopped being able to study etc. etc., while doing well on qbank. I thought about moving it up, but then decided not to. Now I'm 5 days away from the test, and I wish I did move it. I have barely done anything in the past days, and I feel like I'm even starting to forget stuff. Baaaad.

To be honest I'm having a bit of this problem as well. Things started to go south on me a few days ago and so I decided to slow down a bit (a sort of "half-assed" attempt to take a few days off), but I've still kinds done a bit of studying (and Q-banking) in the meantime and so my studying has been CRAP (and I'm forgetting stuff) AND because of the "halfed assed" studying (which is producing NO results), I'm not getting the time off I need. So I feel like I've been simply wasting time - which is making me feel like $hit on top of it all.

And, also, I want my $40,000 a year back. Yea yea, the first two years have given me a sort of "foundation" in medicine, but quite frankly I've learned more medicine in the past month than I did in two years of medical school.

How many days notice does the USMLE computer system need in order to reschedule. Can I reschedule on a Monday and take it an a teusday? How does that work?

Judd

 

[tkim]

If I recall, you need to reschedule 5 days prior to your test date or pay an additional fee.

 

[dara678]

And, also, I want my $40,000 a year back. Yea yea, the first two years have given me a sort of "foundation" in medicine, but quite frankly I've learned more medicine in the past month than I did in two years of medical school.

COMPLETELY agree on this one. i've never felt like i've known so much -- but that's because i've been studying so much these past couple of months, not because of med school itself ....

 

[Hernandez]

Maybe I need a few days off.

Judd

Man we've all been there and had that, and it'll all be over soon enough.

 

[chintu]

I couldn't agree more, things are finally starting to come together and I regardless of how I do on this test I am pretty confident I know my basic science now and ready to move on to clinicals. Whenever u feel burnt out just look at things from a larger perspective, whatever the outcome might me you guys have worked hard and learned so much just in the process of preparing for this test. There's >90% that we'll pass and will be able to be around the patients soon. Good luck and just hang in there.

 

[lealf-ye]

I am burning out too!!!! 🙁

 

[mamitch4]

And, also, I want my $40,000 a year back. Yea yea, the first two years have given me a sort of "foundation" in medicine, but quite frankly I've learned more medicine in the past month than I did in two years of medical school.
Judd

This thought has crossed my mind also...

 

[thackl]

And, also, I want my $40,000 a year back. Yea yea, the first two years have given me a sort of "foundation" in medicine, but quite frankly I've learned more medicine in the past month than I did in two years of medical school.
Judd

You're not alone on that one. My school did a piss poor job 2nd yr. They busted our asses, gave us very little time to study for boards and it turns out that most of what we've been doing was low yield. I guess the good thing is that my class is the last on the current system. Hopefully they will do better for future classes.

 

[xjacob]

The fact that one of the most important, long and diffucult courses at my school was parasitology (yes, I know all the worms, all their larval stages, what are the 3rd line drugs for each and the fact that Dientamoeba coli + Enterobius vermicularis coinfection occurs more than could be explained by chance), while giving us a very poor pharmacology background (I think I first time saw the word "Selegiline" a couple weeks ago, when I started reviewing), and ZERO behavioral science...yes, that makes me think that I wasn't exactly being prepared for the boards.
But I also have to say that there is NO WAY I'd ever be able to memorize so much stuff, as I did now, without those 2 years. I mean, I came here knowing only that lupus is "when your knees hurt." So, now things like "diffuse prolifertative glomerulonephritis" seem easy and I only spend time learning some pecularities my school didn't teach me about SLE. I think it SEEMS that we are learning all of this stuff on our own, but most of it has been given to us one way or another in the classes, and we are only reorganizing it into what the boards want & filling the gaps.
Still, I wish I never had to take that darn parasitology killer course, and had a solid pharm preparation instead!

 

[exmike]

yeah, i feel like i learned a great deal more in the last month and a half than during my first two years. However, in retrospect, I think that without the foundationa laid down in the first two years, learning as much as I have in the last month and a half would have been impossible. I guess its easy to fault the school for not teaching for the boards but rather teaching for the wards. I wouldnt have minded more boards oriented material, but I do feel the foundation was in place for me to learn the rest of what I needed without starting from scratch.

 

[NYC-girl]

take NBME 2. That will either scare you into being motivated, or help you feel better about moving your test date up.

 

[Frijolero]

take NBME 2. That will either scare you into being motivated, or help you feel better about moving your test date up.

That's exacly why I didn't take one. It seems like a pretty low-yield thing to do unless you're in danger of not passing. I might have done well and thought "sweet, now I don't need to study as hard" or done poorly and just freaked myself out with a probable loss in study efficiency. Until they start making it easier to review answers I think those things are a waste of time for people in the pass range without huge test anxiety. If you want a "feel" of the test interface take the free 150. I agree with people who think you should take a few days off and then hit the high yield stuff for a couple of days, then be done with it. Everyone hits a lull, I was consistently high 70's low 80's on q-bank and had a day where I had a 56 and 64. Some days are slow brain days. Take some time off and move on.