Retaking NBME

[purplelife]

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What are your thoughts on taking NBME 2nd time if you haven't gone through the answers at all? I don't really remember the questions, but I do remember some of the concepts that were on it. I want to retake NBME 7 because I want to save the remaining for last few weeks. What do you say?

 

[EazyE1907]

have you taken nbme 11 or 12? I think it would be better to substitute 11 or 12 in place of 7. i know you don't remember all the questions but you will remember some of them. NBME's are the closest thing to seeing where you're at, so doing different forms will maximize that experience for you. just my 2 cents tho.

 

[EazyE1907]

also, feom what i've read, (haven't taken these forms yet) 15 and 16 seem to be the closest to the real deal and are pretty difficult compared to the others. So maybe saving these 2 for the last couple weeks would be a good idea.

 

[purplelife]

Thank you for responding. Yeah, I will be leaving 15 and 16 for the last few weeks. I did NBME 5,6, and 7 online so far. NBME 7 didn't go so well and I'm just so depressed. The reason maybe that I took it right before I was about to go to sleep and I was tired. But I still feel very bad cuz that's no good excuse for me to not do good on it. I don't know why, but I felt as if it wasn't like the UW type qs I have been doing and every block I was running short on time, and some question had info I had not gone over before. Story of my life 🙁 I think I should do NBME 11 or UWA-1 after I'm all rested and done with another quick review and use that as a real predictor and retake NBME 7 later as I have not gone over the answers yet.