Written boards over

[PDT4CNV]

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Congrats to those of you who took the written portion of the ABO board certification exam yesterday.

Hopefully, your computers didn't crash as they did at our testing center.

 

[ryangeraets]

Sorry for your luck with the computer crash....

Did anyone think that the image quality was poor? I was really disappointed with the resolution of the fundus photos/FAs as well as with the path slides....it left a lot to be desired.

 

[mf8]

I have looked up some questions and can easily find 5 questions that I got wrong. 😱 Most people probably got about 4 of these questions right. Furthermore, there was one optics question that I couldn't even make heads or tails to what they were asking (answer d. -1.0, c. -0.7, b. -0.3?, a. -0.1). That's probably the 6th question wrong. I would have just as much chance at that question if they wrote it in a foreign language. (Qdklj ake de aomdwk kdjw 53 alkjs bi tom? a. -0.1, b. -0.3 etc.)

I am toast.

According to rumor, you can get about 30 questions wrong before you are toast so I used up 20% of my allotment so far.

 

[JZ2020]

I hope you're wrong about that rumor. Getting 30 questions wrong still represents an 88% raw score...

BTW - I also agree that the photos (especially the histopathology slides) were of poor quality.

 

[Wolverine98]

BTW - I also agree that the photos (especially the histopathology slides) were of poor quality.

That's always been the case. It will also be true on oral boards. They feel it's a better representation of the "real world", when much of what you get will be suboptimal in quality.
However, they're bad quality for everyone, so it's not like anyone gets an advantage over anyone else.

The 30 question rule is a rumor more than anything else. The pass rate is based statistically, so it's potentially different every year.

Dave