Anyone have trouble sleeping the night before STEP 1?
I went to bed at like 10p, and just laid there, tossing and turning until it was dawn. I don't know why though because I didn't feel particularly nervous at all.
Exam was at 8:30, and when I got to the testing center, I felt like I wasn't awake but was just going through the motions if that makes any sense. Nearly voided the exam before sitting for it but just tried to suck it up, drank an energy drink, and just took it.
Still haven't received my score but looking back, not sure if I made the best decision because I definitely felt sluggish and had trouble remembering/regurgitating even simple formulas/G+/-, etc. It also didn't help that my blocks 4 and 5 were killers (literally like 1/2 vague anatomy) and I wasn't able to finish a good 3 questions in each of them (including the heart sounds) due to time.
Right after the test in retrospect, I felt like my other blocks were fine (I hope), and I was able to reconcile a few of the questions I didn't know from Blocks 4 and 5 and fortunately got them right, but the wait is killing me because I'm terrified I didn't read the question stems correctly due to the lack of sleep from the night before. A lot of my answers were based on knee-jerk responses from all the uworld and kaplan questions (which surprisingly got me some correct points on Pharm), but I also know for certain that I made several stupid mistakes which, I think, if I was able to sleep well, could have prevented using process of elimination, etc, etc.
Would appreciate people's experiences and comments. Average NBME was around 235-240.
I went to bed at like 10p, and just laid there, tossing and turning until it was dawn. I don't know why though because I didn't feel particularly nervous at all.
Exam was at 8:30, and when I got to the testing center, I felt like I wasn't awake but was just going through the motions if that makes any sense. Nearly voided the exam before sitting for it but just tried to suck it up, drank an energy drink, and just took it.
Still haven't received my score but looking back, not sure if I made the best decision because I definitely felt sluggish and had trouble remembering/regurgitating even simple formulas/G+/-, etc. It also didn't help that my blocks 4 and 5 were killers (literally like 1/2 vague anatomy) and I wasn't able to finish a good 3 questions in each of them (including the heart sounds) due to time.
Right after the test in retrospect, I felt like my other blocks were fine (I hope), and I was able to reconcile a few of the questions I didn't know from Blocks 4 and 5 and fortunately got them right, but the wait is killing me because I'm terrified I didn't read the question stems correctly due to the lack of sleep from the night before. A lot of my answers were based on knee-jerk responses from all the uworld and kaplan questions (which surprisingly got me some correct points on Pharm), but I also know for certain that I made several stupid mistakes which, I think, if I was able to sleep well, could have prevented using process of elimination, etc, etc.
Would appreciate people's experiences and comments. Average NBME was around 235-240.
