Congrats! You took it the 30th, right? Not too bad in terms of turn around.
Based on what I've witnessed, I would think on the 9th, but I don't know many people who took the exam on a Tuesday. So I'm not sure if it gets rolled into the previous week's "batch" or not, so maybe someone with more experience can comment. 😳
Hey that is an amazing score! Don't let those two points from your goal get you down. All doors are open for you with that score! Congratulations and go celebrate!
This is a great score. I would be thrilled! Two points will not mean anything. I know it’s disappointing when you have a goal but in my mind you made that goal because who knows what questions they did or did not throw out. On a different day they could have thrown out what you needed. Celebrate that score. The world is your oyster.
Do you think you're practice scores underpredicted because the test wasn't representative of them, asking a greater frequency of questions beyond your knowledge base, or because you were nervous and under performed relative to your knowledge level? Still a great and competitive score, though!
For sure. Especially form 19 (I only missed 9 questions on it which is somehow a 240?).
How many total questions could you remember?
Right from the horses mouth! Weird that it worked out differently for us.
Took 8 weeks of dedicated, first practice was 4 weeks in and then weekly from there on out. I actually got snowed out of my exam the night before, twice, so it ended up being longer than 8 weeks total (hence the kaplan bank). Was a brutal experience overall.
How many questions do you think you got wrong? Mainly WTF impossible questions but questions that stumped you but which you could have prepared for?
What was the time course?
Happens to me too. Don't think of it as "Damn I just got a 60, FML I'm going to drop out and work at McDonalds." Think of it as "Thank god I found out that I didn't know something before the real deal." Just learn from the Q and you'll do better next time.
Im not sure what a "fluke" is. Sure, luck can play a few points in either direction. The measurement error on the real exam is 6 points. Unless you cheated on that nbme, i would feel great about it. Obviously take another
Antibiotic pharm was very basic on my exam. Neuro wasn't heavily covered in my exam, but you never know. Most of my friends ended up with a sort of abstract element of biochem being emphasized... for me, I had about 6-8 questions on inborn errors of metabolism (*palm to face*)! I didn't have it at the time, but some of my friends used the 'doctors notes medical biochemistry poster' and thought it was extremely helpful for them and their ability to remember all the important parts of biochem (including inborn errors of metabolism) and how all the reactions relate to each other, so you may want to check that out. Apparently, visual learning is a big deal. Hope that helps!
Similar practice test scores. Felt the same too. Exam was very easy. Hoping that's because of prep and the curve still holds
Yeah I also had this question when I was studying, I'm sure in reality it depends on a host of factors but Uworld says 12 hours so that is what I used as my threshold during studying
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply to me directly! I'll be sure to give biochem one more quick pass before calling it a day 🙂
How did you feel post exam? Was it hard?...easy?
