I want to preempt this by saying that I'm not an MD/PhD student. I did take a year off after 2nd year to do a pathology-related fellowship, and now I'm wondering if that was a good idea. I'm in the top quartile of my class, I scored well on step 1, so I know that I'm a good test taker. However, I now feel that I'm really struggling during the shelf exams in third year. The first one, I did rather poorly on (77th percentile). I expected that, though. I just took the IM shelf on Friday, and it felt awful.
I came here to make my thread because I figured that this subsection would have the most users with similar experience. Does anyone have any advice to get back into the test-taking rhythm necessary to do well on shelf exams? I'm studying on a daily basis, but can't quite seem to get to where I once was. I would hate to continue to do poorly and be frustrated through third year because of something that's easily correctable. Any help would be great. Thanks.
I came here to make my thread because I figured that this subsection would have the most users with similar experience. Does anyone have any advice to get back into the test-taking rhythm necessary to do well on shelf exams? I'm studying on a daily basis, but can't quite seem to get to where I once was. I would hate to continue to do poorly and be frustrated through third year because of something that's easily correctable. Any help would be great. Thanks.
