I know this is common but I feel terrible about how my exam went. I've read other threads of people feeling terrible about it and doing very well but I've counted so many wrong (know of 28 wrong for sure many of which are incredibly dumb mistakes on incredibly easy questions) already that I am pretty sure I'll be very far from my NBME and UWSA scores... Just wanted to vent....
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join the club... I felt the exact same.
So far I have counted 31. I think I marked a total of 75 Questions on the exam. The 31 includes questions that I had not marked.
i think you guys are going to be fine. even if you were onyl sure of about 50% of the test. and you had these careless mistakes + flagged. which i am sure i will also.
if you say you got about half of the other 50% right that you weren't sure about. that's a 75%. that's a pretty good score if the national mean is around 68 - 70% for that test.
if you say you got about half of the other 50% right that you weren't sure about. that's a 75%. that's a pretty good score if the national mean is around 68 - 70% for that test.
I would drive myself crazy if I remembered my exam questions. I have actually been actively trying to block any memories of the test for the past week, especially when I woke up at 6 am on the day after my test to look up an answer to a question in panic-- I got it wrong. That's when I decided to just block it all out. There's no point thinking about it. What's done is done.
Good luck to everyone waiting on scores... 😀
Good luck to everyone waiting on scores... 😀
Suppression. That's very mature of you.
Suppression. That's very mature of you.
lolol
i didnt actively do this, so did I repress it? I just cant remember anything on my test except 3 questions: one that had 2 right answers, one that had no right answers and one that was so off the wall unrelated to medicine i have no idea how it got in the test at all. Other than that I can only remember generalities such as my test being very light on biochem and pharm and feeling lucky about that.
I also took the exam a few days ago and can commiserate...it didn't help that I was so nervous I felt like I couldn't think straight for the entire first section of the exam and had some trouble finishing a few sections, which I never had a problem with on the practice tests. I've been wondering if I'm completely screwed and am seriously concerned about the score I will receive. Even if I didn't fail, isn't barely passing just as bad in terms of applying for residencies?
I scored a 220 two weeks before the exam (free practice exam translated score) and 231 one week before (NBME 7 translated score); however, I almost felt like I knew less by the time I took the exam than I did the week before even though I was studying every day (is that even possible??). I also had a lot of trouble sleeping during that week due to test anxiety, which I'm sure didn't help my performance.
Is there anything that can be done now except to wait for my scores?? Like, it's not possible (or advisable) to cancel scores now, is it?
I scored a 220 two weeks before the exam (free practice exam translated score) and 231 one week before (NBME 7 translated score); however, I almost felt like I knew less by the time I took the exam than I did the week before even though I was studying every day (is that even possible??). I also had a lot of trouble sleeping during that week due to test anxiety, which I'm sure didn't help my performance.
Is there anything that can be done now except to wait for my scores?? Like, it's not possible (or advisable) to cancel scores now, is it?
Hey, I felt absolutely awful after taking Step 1. I could think of so many questions that I missed. My friend and study partner for the Steps felt the same way afterward.
The result: he got a 266, I got a 267. The consensus among those who did really well is that those who did really well tend to feel awful afterwards.
The result: he got a 266, I got a 267. The consensus among those who did really well is that those who did really well tend to feel awful afterwards.
a third year tutor I was working with prior to the exam said he walked out, ready to sign up to take the test one more time...turns out he got a 257. This is off of 3 hours of sleep the night prior.
It is just because you're thinking about the questions you got wrong, whereas someone who isn't at that level doesn't know they got the questions wrong. That sorta comes out of the whole UW thing where people don't pay attention to the other answer choices if they got the answer right.
you speaketh the trooth brother.
hahaha i hope there are some people down to go BUCK WILD in the parking lot after with me but when i took my practice test the site just had people taking like english/typing tests or something. either way, i'm down for prometric post tail gate with whoever
I walked out feeling mentally shot, for the past 4 weeks im freaking out that i failed, or got like a 190. just want Wednesday to come so i can i can have resolution and stop thinking about it. didnt really bother me till last week but have been anxious since then.
