That post test feeling

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I'm curious as to how you guys felt after your tests and what your scores were in comparison to that.

1. How did you feel walking out of the test? Confident? Destroyed? Somewhere in the middle?

2. How did you feel about the test compared to a practice test like the NBMEs or UWSAs?

3. How was your score after you received it? Higher than, less than, or about the same as predicted by the practice exams?

Thanks.

 

[RPedigo]

1. How did you feel walking out of the test? Confident? Destroyed? Somewhere in the middle?

Destroyed. No joke. I remember about 20 questions and looked up answers to them and I got them all wrong. I found it hard to sleep and was pretty sure that I failed, especially that I had a death in the family a few days before my test and on my test day my driver's license was expired and I had to get it renewed at the DMV that day, which was a whole other fiasco involving security escorting me off the premesis. Anyway. Let's just leave it at: bad.

2. How did you feel about the test compared to a practice test like the NBMEs or UWSAs?

As you could probably predict from the previous answer, much worse. I felt good about the UWSA and the NBME tests, and got over 260 on each of them, so I was pretty confident since all my scores were consistent. I also felt more confident about my answers on the practice tests, probably because of less anxiety.

3. How was your score after you received it? Higher than, less than, or about the same as predicted by the practice exams?

Got over a 250 still, so was relieved to see that my score didn't suffer terribly. In short: believe it when they say you can't predict how well you did after the test! Good luck.

 

[Bowser Koopa]

1. How did you feel walking out of the test? Confident? Destroyed? Somewhere in the middle?

Discouraged. Frustrated. I was cruising through the first 4 blocks, but then the last 3 were a beat down.

2. How did you feel about the test compared to a practice test like the NBMEs or UWSAs?

The range of difficulty I had was from ridiculously easy 🙂 to "what the hell? 😡"

3. How was your score after you received it? Higher than, less than, or about the same as predicted by the practice exams?

UWSA1 (2 weeks out) = 253
UWSA2 (1 week out) = 260
Actual Score = 256

FWIW -->
(UW% x 2.3) + 84 = 263
Clinical Review website Calculator = 266+13

 

[sswang00]

This is a bit comforting to hear because I feel destroyed.
Its gonna be a long 3 week wait. Btw, congrats on the impressive scores

 

[buckets301]

1. Immediately after the test I felt ok. Not good, just ok. After I got home I remembered 6 or 7 questions and missed all but one, so I decided to stop looking them up because it was making me too anxious. At that point I got pretty bummed cause I had been scoring well on practice exams and thought I might have done considerably worse. I still felt I did well, but thought I might have lost 15 points or so from practice exams.
2. I felt my test had a lot of random crap on it, but overall it was a similar experience to taking practice tests. In fact, it was similar enough that it helped keep me sane while I was waiting because I could remember taking some of the practice tests and thinking that I had just gotten destroyed and ended up doing just fine.
3.NBME 7 =266
UWSA1 = 265
UWSA2 = 265
Actual Score = 268

So, all in all I didn't feel all that great after my test, and for most of the time I was waiting I had convinced myself that I had dropped my score a decent amount. Clearly, from my experience the practice tests were pretty spot on, so unless you had an experience that was drastically different from practice exams, I would have faith that your results should be pretty similar.

 

[knuckles]

So far the people who posted have done better than they felt. I want to see how the people who felt really good did? Horribly if there is to be an inverse relationship, or perhaps they did even better than their predictions, one can only hope.

 

[aaj117]

This is a bit comforting to hear because I feel destroyed.
Its gonna be a long 3 week wait. Btw, congrats on the impressive scores

How do you know when to expect your scores? I can't find it anywhere. Granted I spent 8 hours today taking a pretty hard test lol, and then i went to the bar to deal with it, so maybe i'm not at my internet-searching-best, but i have no idea how to find the expected score report date.

Oh btw, to answer your first question-- after the first block, i felt like crying. Almost the whole block was like detailed pharm mechanisms, and I was sure i wasn't at the right exam. I took my first break and went to the bathroom, where I originally thought i might throw up, then debated making a break for it and running to my car and driving back to my parents' house without taking the rest of the exam.

 

[2012mdc]

I'm curious as to how you guys felt after your tests and what your scores were in comparison to that.

1. How did you feel walking out of the test? Confident? Destroyed? Somewhere in the middle?

2. How did you feel about the test compared to a practice test like the NBMEs or UWSAs?

3. How was your score after you received it? Higher than, less than, or about the same as predicted by the practice exams?

Thanks.

1. In the middle, there were plenty of easy questions so I didn't feel too bad but there were too many wtf questions for me to be confident. I was unsure of how I did - I was shooting for a really high score and I felt there was a 20 point range for my score where I wouldn't have been too surprised

2. Definitely harder than a NBME but definitely easier than a UWSA. The "easy" questions were on par with the NBME easy questions. What made it more difficult was that some of the harder questions were really difficult (comparable to UWSA or harder)

3. My score was about the same - 4 pts lower than my last 2 nbme's, 2 pts lower than my last UWSA. Incidentally my score was exactly in the middle of the 20 pt range I had predicted

I honestly feel the main difference from the NBME's is that there are significantly more questions that aren't testing your knowledge but are testing your reasoning and understanding of the question. I actually had quite a few concepts appear at least twice and there were big areas that weren't really touched at all.

As I got closer to my test date I wish I would have done more questions (maybe 150 a day instead of 96) and read less, save for some historically weak areas.

 

[slowbutsteady]

I was very nervous after the test. Did not feel like I bombed it, but didn't feel at all good about it.

Was predicting a score on the low end of my practice tests.

Actual score exceeded all my practice tests and met my wildest dreams!!!

 

[Ookluh]

I felt miserable.. I had a throbbing headache, my eyes hurt, I could remember all kinds of questions that I eventually looked up and missed a good portion of them.. my practice tests were 219 at the beginning of dedicated studying, 225 a few weeks later, and 244 a few days before the test.. I was sure I had dropped back down to 215-225 or so. In the end, I was astonished when I got a score of 252 back.. so, don't take it too hard if you feel miserable. You'll definitely feel worse about the test than practice tests because this one actually counts for something! Keep your head up, stay positive, and just remind yourself that you're only going to remember the questions you may have gotten wrong (ie: you won't remember the hundreds you got right). Plus, some of them may not have counted towards the score anyway!

 

[DivCurlZero]

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[knuckles]

Does anyone come out of this exam feeling good and doing good? I wouldn't say I necessarily feel good, but I don't feel bad. I could remember around 5 questions, which is weird cause I normally can remember dozens. Does this mean I bombed the test?

 

[Conjuctiva]

i felt good.. i dont know what you guys mean by "destroyed me" etc etc

i thought the exam was relatively easy.. with only about 5 hard questions per block

 

[dreamix]

i felt good.. i dont know what you guys mean by "destroyed me" etc etc

i thought the exam was relatively easy.. with only about 5 hard questions per block

I felt the exact same way.

I just wrote it today so I don't know how this will reflect my actual score, but I hope I am within the range I am predicting