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I have to repeat 2nd year of medschool. I failed 2 classes this year, got a 69.45 in one of them , but I have to repeat and if I fail anything my repeat year, I have to have a hearing for dismissal. My problem this year was that my school changed to NBME exams and I have done poorly on them, and the level of studying I should've being doing I wasn't because I started second year with an extremely traumatic experience that was getting in the way of me focusing on school. I wish I had just pulled out when I started to see bad patterns instead of going through and failing, now I am in this tough situation and I feel like I'm going to be kicked out or won't make it. I never thought I would be in this situation. I am no genius but I am not too stupid for medschool either. I have really low confidence and that gets in the way when I'm taking tests and don't answer confidently and I change answers a lot. Any advice on how to build confidence in med school when everyone around you seems to know everything, also how deal with being labeled repeater socially in medschool, I feel everyone will look down on me when I repeat and that won't help my already low confidence. I also started in medschool young (21) and have had a hard time "growing up" in medschool.
My plan now is, I have 3 months before 2nd year starts again, I have already started reviewing the first semester material. I plan on reading physiology & FA, do DIT and Kaplan videos, RX questions and UWORLD question, plus pathoma for the first semester classes. Some flaws I identified was I didn't focus on physiology that much this year and the test had a lot of that. This year I read FA, did pathoma, and do RX and UWORLD questions. I plan on doing question earlier this time because I would leave them till the last week before exam.
I really want advice on critical thinking for NBME subject exams, also building endurance. I get tired during test around. Question 50 and also have trouble finishing on time. Also, any advice on increasing confidence in my ability. I have being looking at a lot of dismissal post and they really get me down, I want to hear about any people who repeated and made it.
I go to US allopathic school and want pediatrics residency.
Any advice on how turn this crappy situation around.
I have to repeat 2nd year of medschool. I failed 2 classes this year, got a 69.45 in one of them , but I have to repeat and if I fail anything my repeat year, I have to have a hearing for dismissal. My problem this year was that my school changed to NBME exams and I have done poorly on them, and the level of studying I should've being doing I wasn't because I started second year with an extremely traumatic experience that was getting in the way of me focusing on school. I wish I had just pulled out when I started to see bad patterns instead of going through and failing, now I am in this tough situation and I feel like I'm going to be kicked out or won't make it. I never thought I would be in this situation. I am no genius but I am not too stupid for medschool either. I have really low confidence and that gets in the way when I'm taking tests and don't answer confidently and I change answers a lot. Any advice on how to build confidence in med school when everyone around you seems to know everything, also how deal with being labeled repeater socially in medschool, I feel everyone will look down on me when I repeat and that won't help my already low confidence. I also started in medschool young (21) and have had a hard time "growing up" in medschool.
My plan now is, I have 3 months before 2nd year starts again, I have already started reviewing the first semester material. I plan on reading physiology & FA, do DIT and Kaplan videos, RX questions and UWORLD question, plus pathoma for the first semester classes. Some flaws I identified was I didn't focus on physiology that much this year and the test had a lot of that. This year I read FA, did pathoma, and do RX and UWORLD questions. I plan on doing question earlier this time because I would leave them till the last week before exam.
I really want advice on critical thinking for NBME subject exams, also building endurance. I get tired during test around. Question 50 and also have trouble finishing on time. Also, any advice on increasing confidence in my ability. I have being looking at a lot of dismissal post and they really get me down, I want to hear about any people who repeated and made it.
I go to US allopathic school and want pediatrics residency.
Any advice on how turn this crappy situation around.