Thanks everyone! Well, it's been two days and I'm still recovering emotionally(lol). I think the exam went well. I felt a hell of a lot more confident walking out of step2 than i did for step 1! I don't know if this is good or bad since I actually did ok on step 1(221) even though i thought i failed. I walked out of step 2 feeling like i may have (dare i say?) aced it
. Don't want to jinx myself but that's really how i felt. There was nothing I hadn't seen either on Kaplan Q-Review or MKSAP (when I did my medicine rotation jan-mar). There were some repeats from the Kaplan step 2 released items and a few repeat questions from kaplan Q-Review! All in all, my exam was mostly medicine (70%), OB/GYN-20 questions, Peds-15 questions, Psyche-15 questions, Surgery/Trauma-20 questions. I barely had any neuro ~8 questions regarding CVAs and all the lesions of the circle of willis. They did have the nerve to have a biochem question regarding an enzymatic rx that had a + delta G. But 'endergonic (requiring energy) reaction was NOT an answer choice and I had no f-----g clue about the other answer choices so i quickly clicked 'c' (statistically most utilized multiple choice answer item) and kept moving!
Other than that, make sure u are well rested. I took one break to eat a sandwich and load up on more No-Doze ~20minutes. Started at 8:50am and finished at 4:42pm. My nbme exams were: exam 1-217 and exam 2-234. So we'll see...
Again, books used:
1) Crush-excellent
2) Boards and Wards-excellent
3) Blueprints OB/GYN-excellent
4) Blueprints Peds-excellent
5) NMS Medicine (as a reference only!)
6) Brochert's Platinum vignettes for Surgery & Trauma-really good!
7) reviewed some ekgs with Dubin's(had 3 ekg questions)
8) Lippincott & Williams' High Yield Psychiatry for Step 2 (B&W was enough for Psyche though)
I studied from April 4th-June 20th while on my Family Medicine and Psyche rotations. I put in about 4-6 hours/day. Hope this helps!
Good luck everyone!