taking part 1 in october??

[pipetman]

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hey,

im scheduled to take the boards in july. however, I had a family matter to take care of (pretty serious) which put my studying behind.

when i asked the dean about it i was told we had to take it in july in case we don't pass, and only after I fail (!) can I take it in october. but I want to pass the first time. any advice on how I should approach it? i really feel I need that extra time.

 

[Paulywog]

Is the family matter over? Could you put time in now for the boards because you have about 586 hours or so left to study for the boards, if you dont sleep or anything else. If you have time now, it is doable.

 

[g squared 23]

Is the family matter over? Could you put time in now for the boards because you have about 586 hours or so left to study for the boards, if you dont sleep or anything else. If you have time now, it is doable.

Agree with above: take it in July, there is plenty of time to study. You only have to pass. It's a minimum competency exam. You don't have to destroy it.

 

[scrlet52]

👍with above

 

[DJ Quik]

Agree with above: take it in July, there is plenty of time to study. You only have to pass. It's a minimum competency exam. You don't have to destroy it.

Unless you are at CSPM. We are in Clinic 4 days a week, starting the week after school got out. It would have been nice to study an extra month, but our pass rate is over 90%, so I guess we don't need it...? I donno.

What most schools don't publish is first time board pass rates....

 

[Feli]

Agree with above: take it in July, there is plenty of time to study. You only have to pass. It's a minimum competency exam. You don't have to destroy it.

Yep.^

It is a minimum competency exam. Honestly, unless you were really sleeping through your 1st and 2nd year lectures or using basically nothing but old exams to get you through, you will do just fine. Focus mostly on anatomy since it's the biggest topic %. Your studying for boards is review of stuff you should know a lot about; it's not as if you're starting from scratch.

Putting off pt1 is very ill advised; the basic sciences courses it tests will just get further and further in the rear view mirror if you do. Besides, clerkship apps go out before the Oct sitting, and you will have to check "no" on having passed boards if you didn't attempt or failed it in July... doesn't look good. In the face of a residency shortage, those apps will get filtered out pretty fast at most decent residency programs that a lot of students will want to clerk at.

Even more important, NEVER put off nbpme pt2 under any circumstances (don't have the $, didn't study enough, etc). Take the March sitting of pt2 no matter what, and May sitting is your bail out if for some reason you fail. Not passing pt2 means no state training license, and that means you can't start your residency and will almost certainly lose your spot. Sounds crazy, but it happens to ppl ever year... don't be that person.