That's what I gathered, not sure if it also includes June.
I just wonder how much the NBME/NBOME are advocating for us...not much if I had to guess from past experience. I'm not sure if Prometric is prioritizing certain exams within the essential classification over others, but it doesn't really make much sense to me to cancel a Step exam so that a CPA can sit for an exam that they can take multiple times and doesn't require nearly the same amount of prep. I mean, most of them sit for the exam multiple times because they have to pass all parts of it or whatever and on average 80% of test takers fail a part on their first attempt. I wouldn't expect Prometric to know the intricacies of how medical boards work, but you'd think our boards would advocate for us a bit more.
Does anyone know if the GRE is being given essential status? I imagine that accounts for an order of magnitude more test seats than USMLE or CPA.
They have at home testing apparently.
Fascinating. I guess for something like the GRE that is heavily fluid intelligence based, there's less risk of home administration. Can't google up an answer in First Aid like you could by having a hidden screen for the USMLE.
Yeah. I can see why at home administration of USMLE isn't a thing, but you'd think they'd allow individual med schools to administer the exam. Seems like it would solve most of the problems if the schools could just test their own students, or even if they designated 1 med school per every 3 hour radius or something like that. I suspect the reason they can't allow this is because of contract issues with Prometric?
But what are you finna do when some schools start reporting oddly high performance from their administrations? Void scores for everyone who tested there? Allow the weirdly high scores to get through even though cellphone in the bathroom would have worked on their lax security?
I mean, I guess. But how hard can it be to stick a proctor in 1 or 2 bathrooms that students will be given access to during testing? I feel like this argument is just a way for NBME to be lazy and not come up with good procedures. If they put a little thought into it, I'm sure they could come up with a system that works that is better than the alternative of thousands of medical students pushing the most important test of their careers into rotations.
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It also makes no sense to me why this would be the case when they could tell you a month, 2 weeks, whatever in advance. I don't see the rationale for why it would be a few days before.
Fine. Fair point. What is the rationale for waiting till a few days before the cancel someone's exam? They know what exams people are scheduled for, they know what's essential and what's not, and they know they need to slash to 50% capacity. I don't want to say it's 100% true as whoever brought it up could be mis-informed, but still. There's no reason or excuse for that when they could give people 1-2 months warning if they let all May/June people know by mid-May.
I agree. I think this is a small team at Prometric HQ that is making it up as they go along as best they can, which is poorly. USMLE is essentially just relaying into to us from them, no real decisions on their part so far. Spending months of full-time studying to have your exam cancelled 48-72 hours before is a travesty. Hopefully they only have to resort to this for the immediate test dates in early May, and can then calculate ahead to let the later May and June folks know sooner.
So that explains why when i first started doing UW 3-4 weeks ago my baseline NBME 21 was a 217 and my UW avg has been 75% lol made no sense to me
Lookin good bro! I think you are on good track for a 240+ in June. Keep rippin question banks
***Stakeholder** I was hungry.
Yes they did make that statement. The thought is that the whoever these deans are, they're likely aware of that statement and think they may have some pull for some reason. I hope not.
Same. I'm not doing 1000+ cards a day for a P/F exam.
I'm hoping not since they've already made a statement saying that it won't happen. But honestly at this point I feel like anything can happen. I know there are bigger problems in the world but f*** it, we're allowed to be upset over our own experiences: I'm livid. I knew these few months would be stressful but this is another level. I feel like this is the worst thing that could've happened to our medical education. I took my last exam of M2 yesterday and I couldn't even feel happy about it because I'm so stressed about this. I wish there was a way to make our voices heard because we all know whoever these deans are, they couldn't care less about us.
