Not feeling too great about it

[Music MD]

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Is it totally normal to feel bad after the test? I really don't think I reached my potential yesterday.. Time was a serious issue. I never had time to check any of my answers. Of course now I'm experiencing the pleasure of constantly thinking about the ones I got wrong, having hardly any recollection of the ones I probably got right. Looking back I'm certain I over-thought some questions (I'm calling this "uworld syndrome" where you can't just choose the simple answer cause you think it just can't be that simple).

I would say I marked probably 10-15 per section, which is almost a third of the test. Having put so much time into this I really wish I could just be happy with my effort and let it go, forget about it (for seven weeks! yuck july 13).. but its just hard to not think about how I could have done better.

Anyone out there have this same kind of feeling and then still end up doing fine?

 

[lavodnas]

Is it totally normal to feel bad after the test? I really don't think I reached my potential yesterday.. Time was a serious issue. I never had time to check any of my answers. Of course now I'm experiencing the pleasure of constantly thinking about the ones I got wrong, having hardly any recollection of the ones I probably got right. Looking back I'm certain I over-thought some questions (I'm calling this "uworld syndrome" where you can't just choose the simple answer cause you think it just can't be that simple).

I would say I marked probably 10-15 per section, which is almost a third of the test. Having put so much time into this I really wish I could just be happy with my effort and let it go, forget about it (for seven weeks! yuck july 13).. but its just hard to not think about how I could have done better.

Anyone out there have this same kind of feeling and then still end up doing fine?

I would say it is normal, I took my test on the 17th. I feel the same way, and as some time has passed I actually feel worse ! Read the Step I experience threads, most people say the same thing as you post-test.

 

[SlaveOfTCMC]

Use the Suppression defense mechanism

I'm sure you'll feel a whole lot better.

NO matter what you do, do not engage in the Undoing defense mechanism, as that may make you feel worse during the waiting period

 

[Day man]

everyone says this, but when waiting for news the best thing to do for now is forget about it, what's done is done. you prepped like crazy and chances are your recall bias is going to really skew how you think you performed. relax. if you're already on rotations, start occupying your mind with the wonderful new world of clinical medicine. if you have a break until then, relax and occupy your time with fun things...we all remember fun right? i'm assuming you play instruments so go jam. go to the beach. you know, be a person. best of luck on july 13th...but until then go enjoy yourself.

 

[fahimaz7]

You must not read the other step 1 threads, as most people walk out of there thinking they failed the test. This even includes the 260's and what not.

If your nervous though, you could always take a NBME like a different poster this week. He took it after his real deal to get an idea of how he did.

🙂

 

[Maalik Ashtaar]

I took it 3 days ago and and I felt terrible about it, I feel terrible about it, I almost cried on the way home and then I just tried to forget about it, but last night someone sent me a message about it and then I was there thinking about it before I went to sleep and it basically ruined my night..... smh I have to go back in 3 days and I am DREADING going back.......

 

[deleted387928]

I've been missing about half the # of questions that I mark on practice tests and UW blocks.

Let's say you marked 15 per block, missing 7 questions each. That would be an 84% raw score, which I'm sure would scale very well.

 

[Music MD]

You must not read the other step 1 threads, as most people walk out of there thinking they failed the test. This even includes the 260's and what not.

If your nervous though, you could always take a NBME like a different poster this week. He took it after his real deal to get an idea of how he did.

🙂

our boy filla? hes gonna pull through.. i can feel it.

 

[Fillabuster]

our boy filla? hes gonna pull through.. i can feel it.

👍😀

 

[turkeyjerky]

When I left my test last year, after an initial feeling of relief about being done, I was pissed the F off at myself for f'ing up. I felt like $hit about the thing and I was disappointed in myself for screwing it up. Remembered a bunch of questions that I was sure, retrospect (still am) that I got wrong; every question I looked up after the fact went the other way than I had (don't do this). I all about kissed away the idea of any halfway decent residency. I figured I'd be lucky to have pulled off a 230. Felt like a chump for the next six weeks, til I finally got my score back.

270--trust me, Everyone feels terrible about Step 1.

 

[kstreet]

When I left my test last year, after an initial feeling of relief about being done, I was pissed the F off at myself for f'ing up. I felt like $hit about the thing and I was disappointed in myself for screwing it up. Remembered a bunch of questions that I was sure, retrospect (still am) that I got wrong; every question I looked up after the fact went the other way than I had (don't do this). I all about kissed away the idea of any halfway decent residency. I figured I'd be lucky to have pulled off a 230. Felt like a chump for the next six weeks, til I finally got my score back.

270--trust me, Everyone feels terrible about Step 1.

Not to knock your story, cuz it's great

but for every person who felt terrible and then got a 270, there was probably 50 people who felt terrible and ended up with a more "average" score.

Walk in and do your best and really thats all we can ask for

 

[turkeyjerky]

Not to knock your story, cuz it's great

but for every person who felt terrible and then got a 270, there was probably 50 people who felt terrible and ended up with a more "average" score.

Walk in and do your best and really thats all we can ask for

Granted, but my point was that everyone feels terrible and it has no correlation w/ how one does. I was scoring right around my actual score on assessments; I felt awful after the test and did right around where I was supposed to--I expect that's the case for the vast majority of people.

 

[XRanger]

yea I felt terrible after the test too. I was marking about 10 qs per block and then after the test I keep recalling all the stupid mistakes that I made. So far I recalled like 10 questions that I thought I got right (unmarked qs) and realized they were wrong. I feel so dumb afterwards cause now looking back, I realized how obvious the answer is.