Thank you all, even though I’m writing more than a semester after the last post; I convinced myself about writing my first post and would still like to briefly share my thoughts and experience. Because I literally found solace in some threads such as this one and maybe someone in the future would be able to find some measure of relief in our posts. I am certain now that my personal experience with step 2 ck very closely resembles that of many of you.
During the exam, I struggled with time management; I wasn’t able to review more than 1-2 questions in probably 3 blocks, in the other 5 I either had just enough time to answer the last question or more commonly had to pick answers without reading the entire question stem in the final 1-3 items. I can vaguely recall at least 5 questions I had to blindly click an answer, and still left unanswered 3-4 questions in the entire exam. Regarding the content of the questions I found them to be dificcult; just as someone before me described I felt prepared for less than a third of the questions and still had to hurry due to the time concern. Walking out of the testing center I felt horrible; many questions kept coming back to my mind one after the other both the ones I was not able to answer propperly due to the time and also many intems in which I made trivial and stupid mistakes; not taking into account those which were dificult and was certain I got them wrong. All of this led to an utterly demoralizing waiting period, I also had trouble sleeping and in all honesty was prepared for a failing score or a very low passing one.
The final score I received after the grueling waiting period was 268, for which I am immensely thankful to god. I am still not able to explain it, maybe because of the timing issue your brain can only hold on to and remember the most challenging questions or those you are sure you got wrong (even if they were not that difficult) and disregards the ones on which you made an appropriate thought process or you just had the pieces of knowledge to figure out the answer or discard the distractors.
Bottom line, the whole purpose of me writing this is not to tell the story or the score , but to provide those going through the difficult waiting process with some relief and hopefully make this waiting a little less distressing and maybe even achievig what this 3 weeks should be used for (in my opinion) and that is resting and disconnecting from the exam experience. Even if you felt terrible walking out of step 2 Ck there is a good chance you did well and a very very high chance that you did considerably better than you think you did.
Best regards,