took step 3 today, felt like i bombed it hard

[ithinkifailed]

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So...im a step 1 and step 2 in the 250s, currently a medicine prelim for radiology starting in july

I studied for ~3 weeks during my radiology rotation this month. Did uworld, finished with a 65%, uwsa of 238, ~70% on the usmle CD...but i know i bombed this exam hard. I felt like i was guessing on nearly 60% of all the questions, especially on day one.

What really killed me however, was the CCS part.

I went through the uworld cases 1.5 times and read master the boards in a week as well as practiced the cases from the usmle website.

During the exam, my cases weren't too bad but i would be in the middle of a workup when a couple cases ended. I didnt get to get results from syphilis when i knew he had a maculopapular rash on his penis. The case just ended and i had plenty of time. There were several cases where I didnt know the diagnosis, a couple went to the end, possibly because I missed something. Some cases, patient didnt get much better. Others I forgot to move patients appropriately. I didnt kill anyone if that matters and I think I did decent workups. I am just really worried that I am going to have to take this exam again.

Did anyone else feel like this? I thought the ccs questions were supposed to be easy...

If i fail the exam, im not even sure how to prepare to pass it!!

 

[JacobMcCandles]

You want the cases to end early.

 

[nitpick]

Cases might have ended early because you treated the patients before knowing the diagnosis. Like UTI, results come after treatment. No need to worry about it as what matters is you ordered a specific test for diagnosis and you treated the patient optimally. They don't care you saw the results or not.