Dude im 90% done with my first pass and im getting wrecked by the new questions. They are unnecessarily hard like on topics I should never know as a rising 3rd year. Wtf do these people at UW expect from us lol. I was doing so well and now my scores have dropped. Why do they do this lmaoJust finished my second pass of UW at 82% correct.
Funny thing is that I got 65% correct on my last block ( it had like 20 hard AF new questions that are not in FA), and previous to that my "worst" block was 75% correct. Thank you UW for boosting my moral 1 week out
I have heard IM is intense and you have to study a lot for the NBME IM shelf. At least at my school. Can you switch it with a vacation month of less intense rotation?
Im an august boy unfortunately
Felt much better on those tbh. A lot of my mistakes on those were form misreading. a lot of my mistakes on this was getting it down to 2 and then choosing the wrong one.
Obviously not a top scorer here, but If it was me I would find a way to read all of First Aid by Wednesday night and then take it. Not trying to understand it, but just somehow, someway read the words on the page,maybe like from 4:30am to 8pm or something. I still think you'll probably get a 220. I think the most important thing is that the next 3.5 days should be absolute torture for you, and you feel really, really feel great just to be done on Friday morning. Again, take with a grain of salt, just throwing out an idea
I don't think its a bad idea, I just wonder If I should try to be more targeted. When I have 30 questions I get down to 2, but get 24 of them wrong, I cant help but wonder if today was just a rough day. especially since I did not eat breakfast or lunch before I took the exam.
Maybe unrelated to this topic, but can I ask why med/peds and not FM? I haven't looked too much into the specialty, but from what I understand it seems to only be relevant if you're interested in an academic career? I may be wrong, but either way maybe you can get some solace from the fact that having a passing step score is pretty much solid for FM, and you can always go that route if the chips don't fall where you'd like. Either way, I think you're probably looking at a 215-230 range depending on the day.
I want to work as a hospitalist and from what I understand and from talking to residents, Med/Ped puts you in a better place to do that. Also has more specialty options in case I decide I still hate myself in 6 years. From what I understand they are also better equipped to handle the more critical cases that may walk through the door, and they spend more time on peds learning than a fam med residency. If I don't hit a 220 I'll probably have to make a choice between IM and Peds because as I said I think right now my end goal is to be a hospitalist. If my relationship falls apart though Ill prob go fam med and then run off to the literal wilderness. my goals and dreams vary depend on what stage of life I will be in.
I think you need to plan your test day out really well. Make sure you get enough sleep, wake up early, have a good breakfast like eggs or oatmeal or something. Plan out how you're going to take your breaks, bring protein bars instead of a big lunch so you don't crash. Just plan the day because it seems like that will help you a lot based on what you've said.
100% agree. It made my comlex experience way better, never had so much energy during an exam before.
Don't know what I would do without yall lolRandom, but take care of yourself and what you want first! In hindsight, after my mid-preclinicals divorce, that’s the best advice I can give. If you have to make serious adjustments to your plans based on what another person wants, be *very* cautious and make sure you’d still be happy with the outcome. Other people are fickle and we’re in a place in life with high relationship failure rates. No matter what happens, you deserve to be happy with your life.
I think it’s very possible to hit a 220+ with where you are at. NBME 24 underpredicted me by 11 points, and it was my highest NBME. The fact that you have one higher is a good sign. Just hammer your weaknesses over this next week and you should be good to go!!
Yas good job! Can definitely agree with you about the overthinking lol
CI is 229 - 252. I will be happy with > 230
A prediction of 240 with a UWSA2 of 240 and NBME 18 of 237 is a good time. You're gonna kill it!
Not at all. Barely had any biochem and the stuff I did have was more path related than all those questions about testing methods and stuff.
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Thank god
Yes step 2 let's goooo!COMLEX scores are up! Passed with a 574 which was above my goal for what I want to do. So glad this is finally all over. And as promised:
USMLE - Official 2021 Step 2 CK Experiences With Scores Thread
All right y'all, let's get this party started. Here's to a smooth sailing third year, no Prometric drama with Step 2, in-person aways and interviews, and no CS/hopefully PE. School: bone wizard Step 1: mid 230s Level 1: mid 570s Step 2 goal: 250+ Level 2 goal: 600+ Interests: EM, OB/GYN...
Yes!!!!! Killing it. Absolutely so impressed with your performance given your circumstances.
Confirmed wizard. Nice work
Damn! Did you even miss any question on that test? Nice work! Now you can go with any specialty you want to any of the old AOA programs.
Lol literally the 99th percentile. Jesus Christ
