So just finished taking Step 3. I'm a psych resident, so studying for this was pretty difficult. I'm pretty far removed from med, peds, ob/gyn etc.
UWorld - 64% average, done mostly on tutor untimed mode. Had planned do a 2nd time through on random timed, but never had the time
UWorld SA, 4 days out - 207 (averaged about 50-60% on each section)
The first day was really difficult....Felt like I had to guess on a lot of questions. Question stems were sooooo long. There was 1 section where I saved all the biostats questions (2 drug ads and a couple others) until the very end but didn't have enough time and I literally had to click random answers in the last 15-20 seconds. Felt really crappy after that section but I pushed on. Even the psych questions were hard the first day, I was so annoyed!
Second day was a little easier. Shorter question stems, simpler material IMO. The cases weren't too bad. The diagnosis was blatantly obvious on 12/13 of my cases. One of my cases literally ended 1 min 22sec in, which was so strange. None of my cases lasted the full 11 or 21 minutes like they said. On a couple of the cases, the patient "refused" my interventions... definitely never came across that scenario in the Uworld CCS practice cases. There was 1 case where i had absolutely NO IDEA what was going on..I ordered so many labs etc and everything came back negative. Luckily it was my very last case, and at that point my brain was so fried anyways.
I'm a little nervous to get my score back especially after the 1st day but we'll see. Hoping just for a pass...I don't even care if it's a low pass. I will just be SO GLAD to be done with this exam. If I don't pass...well I'll know its because I probably didn't focus on Uworld question as much as I needed to. Time is NEVER a problem for me, never has been in the past..but for some reason on the real exam I kept running short on time! Oh well. At least I can enjoy the holidays without having to do any studying now!