Step 1 - felt like you failed?

[Daisey]

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Did any of you walk out of Step 1 feeling like you failed, but you passed..... or did you walk out of it feeling pretty confident that you passed?

 

[ForceField]

Did any of you walk out of Step 1 feeling like you failed, but you passed..... or did you walk out of it feeling pretty confident that you passed?

I walked out thinking I could've failed, but everything turned out okay. 🙂

 

[Lebesgue]

Yes, I felt it could have gone that way, but I did better than average... It all worked out.

Don't worry until you have reason to. 🙂

 

[16846]

Everyone I know felt like that, it's normal.

 

[TruTrooper]

Everyone I know felt like that, it's normal.

Yep. If you don't walk out of there feeling like you failed, you probably had the answers to the exam. 🙂

 

[neilc]

i walked out feeling like i failed...that test sucked.

 

[lola]

i walked out thinking it didn't go to well and that i might have failed, but the more i thought about it over the next few weeks the more i thought i did ok. it is easy to focus on the questions you didn't know or the questions you couldn't figure out the answer to until after the exam, but there are of course tons of questions you did know the answer to. anyway, i ended up doing well even though i felt pretty sucky about the whole thing the day of the test.

 

[VincentAdultman]

i walked out thinking it didn't go to well and that i might have failed, but the more i thought about it over the next few weeks the more i thought i did ok. it is easy to focus on the questions you didn't know or the questions you couldn't figure out the answer to until after the exam, but there are of course tons of questions you did know the answer to. anyway, i ended up doing well even though i felt pretty sucky about the whole thing the day of the test.

Exactly. You focus on the questions you didn't know, becasue those are the ones you stared at for 10 minutes with your mind going blank. But for every one of those, there are like five that you won't remember because you immediately knew the answer, clicked, and moved on.

I felt OK leaving prometric, bu twith each day I felt worse and worse, because my brain was constanly fixed on the ones that was unsure about. By the day I got my score report, I would have been pleased to get above pass.

 

[Discobolus]

I only counted 110 out of 350 questions that I knew I had gotten right. I started rotations the next week, so didn't worry about it too much, but thought I might have failed. I got a 219.

 

[j802002]

I just wrote it Thursday. I thought it would be a lot harder than it was. I want to say I think I did ok, but I'm afraid because I could get a big fat FAIL in 3-4 weeks in the mail for all I know.

I felt like it was a lot like Qbank, and my qbank average was ok...so I feel like I should have passed, but at the same time I'm just so uncertain and worried. Almost all my friends who wrote it around the same week felt like it was hell and that the exam was really hard.

Mine wasn't so hard, but wasn't so easy. There was a regular mix of questions with nothing over/underrepresented. The only duplication was two questions on viagra, funny enough.

I marked about 1-15 questions each block, and took breaks after every two blocks...with about 15 minutes in break time left at the end of the day.

I really hope I passed! I never want to deal with this exam again...or look at first aid.