USMLE Official 2020 Step 1 Experiences and Scores Thread

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My only UWorld goal is to hit 90% on a block once.

First block today: 85%. 2 changed from correct to incorrect, would've been my 90 lol
Block two: 87.5%. Ahhhhhh.

I'm super paranoid for step because literally 2 days ago my blocks were 60/67. I feel like I will either get a 220 or a 250..
 
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iforget2 said:
256 on UWSA2!

But even with that and an 85% on Free 120 it still feels like I have so many gaps. It's frustrating that no matter how much you study there is just way too much to know. 3 days away, and I'm ready to just be done now.
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Dog LFG! Dont even question it, youre definitely ready, lets go!
 
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Deecee2DO said:
My buddy just took Combank self assessment and wants to know if accurate or overpredicts. Thoughts?
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So I took it and scored in the upper 500s almost 600, but thats according to the new scale. On the old scale (both are provided by COMBANK for reference) I was over 600. I asked my advisor about this and she said in the past the old scale over predicted by about 70 points or so and she said that she would assume the new scale is over inflated by about 40 or 50. However, she also said that it is hard to tell because this is the first year with the new scaled/grading format.
 
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Do y'all take notes on Non uworld mistakes? I'm doing kaplan right now because the majority of Uworld I have left is Neuro and I don't want to waste them ( I do semi random, been unlocking stuff as I finish the zanki decks and started uworld after I got half way through zanki back in Febuary). I would not mind taking notes but the Kaplan interface is such trash, so much scrolling and the explanations seem kinda ****ty. Starting to wish I had saved Uworld for dedicated TBH.
 
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Guess they got a lot of push back.
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USMLE people are so soft. They get bullied around by Prometric and then finally make a decision, and now get bullied by the students and remove it. I mean its cool they are taking feedback, but its like they have zero leadership/backbone or something
 
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CyrusHabs7695 said:
USMLE people are so soft. They get bullied around by Prometric and then finally make a decision, and now get bullied by the students and remove it. I mean its cool they are taking feedback, but its like they have zero leadership/backbone or something
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I am so so glad you said this.
Your statement is 100% correct. The fact they have been so squishy on making a decision this late in the game is absolutely a hallmark of poor leadership.
I would have been much happier with a direct plan/answer sooner instead of the "we are monitoring the situation bla bla bla bla we will keep you posted".
 
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CyrusHabs7695 said:
USMLE people are so soft. They get bullied around by Prometric and then finally make a decision, and now get bullied by the students and remove it. I mean its cool they are taking feedback, but its like they have zero leadership/backbone or something
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I know some students who are bullying them right now to just switch to pass/fail lol. In fact, hundreds of students in group chat I'm in.
 
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DrStephenStrange said:
I kmow some students who are bullying them right now to just switch to pass/fail lol. In fact, hundreds of students in group chat I'm in.
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Honestly I don't even know who is more soft, the people running the USMLE or the whiners who want it P/F because its too stressful.
 
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CyrusHabs7695 said:
Honestly I don't even know who is more soft, the people running the USMLE or the whiners who want it P/F because its too stressful.
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lmao hate the whiners. If they can't handle stress sitting in the comfort of their own home with literally no other responsibilties except doing multiple choice questions and anki then idk how these people are supposed to handle life/death situations with real live people
 
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ohmanwaddup said:
Do y'all take notes on Non uworld mistakes? I'm doing kaplan right now because the majority of Uworld I have left is Neuro and I don't want to waste them ( I do semi random, been unlocking stuff as I finish the zanki decks and started uworld after I got half way through zanki back in Febuary). I would not mind taking notes but the Kaplan interface is such trash, so much scrolling and the explanations seem kinda ****ty. Starting to wish I had saved Uworld for dedicated TBH.
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If it was something that seemed HY and it was a concept I wrote it in first aid or pathoma. LY facts don't bother. At this point in your prep I'm 100% sure you know HY from LY by now. I agree with you though Kaplan interface blows lol I didn't like it at all but their physio and cardio questions are baller. You will go back to UW and destroy cardio
 
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Deecee2DO said:
lmao hate the whiners. If they can't handle stress sitting in the comfort of their own home with literally no other responsibilties except doing multiple choice questions and anki then idk how these people are supposed to handle life/death situations with real live people
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So much this. Like we are going to be doctors, stress and chaos is often part of the job. I get that these are not ideal circumstances but we are all dealing with the same crap and at some point we need to stop whining and just perform. We can't walk away from a patient who's crashing because it's too stressful so why should this be any different?
 
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God i need to get my life together. Everyday I grind hard until like 3-4 pm where I take a quick break and then say ill finish my cards, do my news, then review content. everyday without fail I suddenly fall way behind and im lucky to even get my cards done, its wild. I can do 300 cards in a hour in the morning. After 3, im lucky to get 100. Going out to shoot some skeet tmr, hopefully it will help me recharge
 
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GoCards05 said:
So much this. Like we are going to be doctors, stress and chaos is often part of the job. I get that these are not ideal circumstances but we are all dealing with the same crap and at some point we need to stop whining and just perform. We can't walk away from a patient who's crashing because it's too stressful so why should this be any different?
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I mean, we can walk away from a crashing patient, it’s just frowned upon.

I had one surgeon I worked with who literally said to my face “I’m a surgeon, not a doctor - call the hospitalist” when a super easy to fix problem was happening and he was literally standing right next to me, looking at the patient. I’d had to call the freaking medical director at home to even get him to come up and see the patient in the first place, because he’d done a crap job with the central line he placed (unsafe to use; in the wrong spot) and he didn’t want to fix it.

I’m suddenly seeing where doctors like that guy come from.
 
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CyrusHabs7695 said:
USMLE people are so soft. They get bullied around by Prometric and then finally make a decision, and now get bullied by the students and remove it. I mean its cool they are taking feedback, but its like they have zero leadership/backbone or something
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The organization has zero backbone. The fact that they literally just put out the statement this morning and already put out a "we are re-evaluating" statement just looks so weak. It's like they put zero thought into anything.
 
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fldoctorgirl said:
The organization has zero backbone. The fact that they literally just put out the statement this morning and already put out a "we are re-evaluating" statement just looks so weak. It's like they put zero thought into anything.
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I wonder what is REALLY happening behind the scenes. I guarantee there is some serious lobbying going on in order to maintain their profits.
 
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The people still pushing for P/F just look dumb at this point-- they've literally put out 2 separate statements saying it's not happening. Like, move on and let it go.

Second, I don't understand why having the exams at "event dates" means it has to be less questions? Why can't it still be 280? Just seems pointless.
 
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fldoctorgirl said:
The people still pushing for P/F just look dumb at this point-- they've literally put out 2 separate statements saying it's not happening. Like, move on and let it go.

Second, I don't understand why having the exams at "event dates" means it has to be less questions? Why can't it still be 280? Just seems pointless.
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yea honestly the one thing that makes med school merit-based is step 1 (and rightfully so, as it assesses the basis of knowledge you SHOULD HAVE PRIOR to seeing patients). getting rid of the score aspect of the exam is ridiculous.
as far as 200 qs go, im just speculating but it may have been done in an effort to prevent med schools from having "bad scores". in their minds reducing the # qs may be "better" cuz ur not as fatigued by the end of the exam. also the corona hype isnt gonna last forever (altho the disease itself might) so i dont see their solution for remote testing sites (or the 200qs for that matter) as a permanent one, but only that lasts for a few months. tbh i dont even think they did it cuz of corona but rather due to the incompetence of prometric. if prometric had handled this testing-disease situation better literally none of this would have happened.
 
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I honestly don't understand how schools are competent enough to proctor 200 question exams but not 280 question exams. They could either have it 200 questions everywhere until they're done figuring things out, or keep it at 280 everywhere. A "standardized" test shouldn't have such significant differences based on where you test.
 
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UWSA1 down! That’s exactly what I needed for my confidence. I know it overpredicts, but I did 23 points better than I did on NBME 22. And honestly, I’d be happy if my real score was right in the middle of where they both are, so I’m feeling a little better today.

I think I sort of see the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s a really small light at this point, though.
 
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Type2Fiber said:
I felt great about mine. So now I'm worried I bombed it
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Im sure you did good man. From what I remember you were like in serious contention for 260s
 
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Ok so my boy is freaking out because his test is in 4 days and he just scored a 251 on UWSA1 (notoriously extremely overpredicts and we all know that which is why i think hes concerned). His goal is 250+ and he just got a 254 on UWSA2 a week ago. His last NBME was 3 weeks ago and he got a 238 on NBME 22. Overall UW % correct is 75%. He's scared hes gonna pop sub-240s on the real deal. Thoughts on this? Oh and reddit score predictor low end 95% CI is still 246. I told him to not be concerned you think was a fluke? I'm kind of shocked he got a 251 on it honestly
 
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Deecee2DO said:
Ok so my boy is freaking out because his test is in 4 days and he just scored a 251 on UWSA1 (notoriously extremely overpredicts and we all know that which is why i think hes concerned). His goal is 250+ and he just got a 254 on UWSA2 a week ago. His last NBME was 3 weeks ago and he got a 238 on NBME 22. Overall UW % correct is 75%. He's scared hes gonna pop sub-240s on the real deal. Thoughts on this? Oh and reddit score predictor low end 95% CI is still 246. I told him to not be concerned you think was a fluke? I'm kind of shocked he got a 251 on it honestly
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Not going to say he's guaranteed to score 250+ (don't think anybody is regardless of practice scores), but I don't think there's any indication or reason to think he's going to get sub 240s. Obviously anything is possible, but if you base it on his stats I would think he's probably above a 250
 
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Deecee2DO said:
Ok so my boy is freaking out because his test is in 4 days and he just scored a 251 on UWSA1 (notoriously extremely overpredicts and we all know that which is why i think hes concerned). His goal is 250+ and he just got a 254 on UWSA2 a week ago. His last NBME was 3 weeks ago and he got a 238 on NBME 22. Overall UW % correct is 75%. He's scared hes gonna pop sub-240s on the real deal. Thoughts on this? Oh and reddit score predictor low end 95% CI is still 246. I told him to not be concerned you think was a fluke? I'm kind of shocked he got a 251 on it honestly
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So from browsing Reddit for the last few weeks, a lot of people who took UWSA1 and 2 close together got similar scores on them and then ended up doing fine-- UWSA1 didn't over predict. UWSA1 is just a weird test for predictions because of when people take it and stuff. I would still trust UWSA2 the most.
 
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Deecee2DO said:
Ok so my boy is freaking out because his test is in 4 days and he just scored a 251 on UWSA1 (notoriously extremely overpredicts and we all know that which is why i think hes concerned). His goal is 250+ and he just got a 254 on UWSA2 a week ago. His last NBME was 3 weeks ago and he got a 238 on NBME 22. Overall UW % correct is 75%. He's scared hes gonna pop sub-240s on the real deal. Thoughts on this? Oh and reddit score predictor low end 95% CI is still 246. I told him to not be concerned you think was a fluke? I'm kind of shocked he got a 251 on it honestly
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i get the why hes worried but tell him to look at his uwsa1% instead of the score. the only thing he can do is fix his mistakes at this point.
 
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bluelamin said:
i get the why hes worried but tell him to look at his uwsa1% instead of the score. the only thing he can do is fix his mistakes at this point.
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I second this. My 3 digit scores have been pretty variable but my %correct has gone up on every practice test I've taken. I think that's a better indicator of our progress than the 3 digit scores since we have no idea how they curve these practice tests and how that relates to the curve on the real deal. I think if you're sitting at a 75-80% consistently on practice exams, you can feel comfortable for 230+ on the real deal provided nothing crazy happens on test day.
 
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Does anyone feel worse after their day off? Like, I just get all depressed as the hours disappear and thinking about how I have to go back to the grind the next day. When I'm going day after day it's almost easier, as soon as I get a little taste of freedom I'm so over the grind.
 
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fldoctorgirl said:
Does anyone feel worse after their day off? Like, I just get all depressed as the hours disappear and thinking about how I have to go back to the grind the next day. When I'm going day after day it's almost easier, as soon as I get a little taste of freedom I'm so over the grind.
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Every monday i get that same feeling. I take sundays off and that feeling of freedom just feels too good
 
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