thoughts after the exam/pre results

[slowlybutshelly]

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I took step2ck a few days ago. I think I overstudied. I studied anesthesiology and ID because I like drugs and bugs and thought it would give me points. There was NO anesthesiology on my test. none zip. There was basic ID; easy. I was freaked out by the level of basic knowledge questions from pediatric development that I had forgotten over the years (the difference between thelarche and adrenarche) etc. There were even questions from research I had been involved in over 10-15 yrs ago. I felt like the test was not representative of what I had learned on rotations but what I had studied in undergraduate school. Does that make sense?

I guess if I get through this test, it will be nice to know that if I want to do anesthesiology, I can take anesthesiology boards etc. That I can specialize instead of trying to learn so much about everything.

I went back and changed my answers about 15 times and am sure I got them wrong, switching to the wrong answer. Makes me upset. I also did not answer 7 q's at all the first block, 1 the next block, 1 the 4th block. and on one subsequent block, I forgot to go back and look at any questions I marked..which means I may not have answered another 10 on one block.

It makes me unhappy and makes me wonder if I will survive this thing.

How many questions do people remember getting wrong? Do they only remember what they got wrong? How many questions do people not answer at all and still end up passing?

I feel like I did not click and move fast enough.

feeling demoralized...

 

[cowme]

Shelly, don't worry about the answers u switched. You will switch as many incorrect to correct answers as will change correct to incorrect.

As far as not answering all the questions, it happens. Whatever. There are 350 or so questions on this thing, completely missing 20 is only about 5% of the test (and it sounds like u only missed about 10 questions).

Most questions that people remember from these tests are wrong. That is the nature of hard questions: you remember them more than easy ones since you spend so much time on them.

I know Its not easy, but try to relax and get this test out of your mind for now. It is over. Do something fun. You worked so hard on this test and I truly wish you the best of luck.

 

[peppy]

I think we all dwell on the questions we got wrong. I did the same thing (and I also changed a few answers to the wrong one!) but ended up doing okay. It seemed like you put a lot of effort into prepping so I bet you did better than you expect. Good luck to you!