YUP. This is exactly how I felt, too. I feel better now reading what you all thought on this page. Totally with you guys... what the F?! It was not like UWSA2... the stems were not long and convoluted. But they were just vague and weird. So many ethics questions where multiple answers could be right and there is no way to prepare for those. SO much immunology (agree with another poster on this page). Holy hell with the immuno from step1...why? I felt like my exam had a ton of obscure stuff tested - random peds, rare concepts/diseases...not a lot of the "bread and butter medicine". I even had 4 EKGs, none of which were "easy". And 4 of those questions where you had to move the stethoscope around which wasted so much time. I had to cold guess on MANY questions (especially the drug ads). The drug ads were way longer on the real exam than what they show in uworld.
The question stems on the exam were so much shorter than uworld, and often I knew what they were getting at/the answer, but then when I read the answers.... they were awful. The answers felt like a quiz/puzzle in and of themselves. Which made for an awful exhausting exam. The answers were cryptic, vague, describing the answer. So I could get it down to two and then picked one and moved on. Awful. Really frustrated by the end of it. And I remember a bunch of easy questions I should have gotten right, but chose the wrong answer due to time and exhaustion. I'm saying a hail mary at this point. I'm praying that I end up with an OK score and that it is normal to feel this way after the exam given everyone else's responses. I feel so frustrated and defeated- trying to ignore it for the next month and stay positive.
