I was running out of time on every single block even though I was rushing non-stop, I moved extremely fast on this exam and was still shocked at how blood sucking the question stems were. Holy F!!!K!? Humangoussssssssssssssssss question stems. Marked 1-2 questions per block (even the ones I marked I was kind of sure). On a scale of difficulty I would give UWSA a 4-5/10. Could reread questions, dwell over the answer forever and probably still have 10-15 minutes left each block. Short questions, heavy in medicine (slop sided in my opinion), could read the last 2 lines of the question and already know the answer. Marked 5-7 questions per block.įinish 100 % Uworld and then read MTB 2 and 3. Made stupid mistakes because of timing but on a scale of difficulty I would give it a 6-7/10. Yeah this was a slightly harder exam but it was still reasonable to some degree. Marked 5 questions per block tops.įinish 60 % of Uworld and took NBME 7 and scored in the upper 240s. On a scale of 1-10 in terms of difficulty I would give NBME 4 a 5/10 it's a pretty reasonable exam. I took NBME 4 as baseline before my crunch month got low 240s. Most of my shelf scores were in the mid to upper 80s (not the best but okay). Through out 3rd year I worked pretty hard. Studied 6 weeks in which I took a 1 week break and honestly I feel like none of that preparation helped at all. Good luck to you guys tackling the beast in these coming days, weeks, months, etc. I'll report back when these scores roll in. stoked if I hit 250 (although I doubt I did). But whatever, glad to be done with this thing.
#USMLE PRACTICE TEST FORUM 2015 SERIES#
Looking back, I wish I started my prep a week earlier so that I could've gotten through the all of the CMS series and an NMBE or two with thorough review. Was able to get through my notebook once before test day. Decided to give my notebook precedence over taking NMBE. Also did the CMS for IM but I found the process of looking up answers to be a bit cumbersome since I was cramped for time. Filled a marble notebook front to back and then had to use the space on the top of the page to fill in. (I went through most of UW during 3rd year, the bulk of it early on in rotations since I had IM first, so I forgot a lot). My prep consisted of about 3.5 weeks of straight up UW. I looked it over for about an hour yesterday and I'm thinking I may have missed 1 or 2. Found a few slip-ups on the review though.īIOSTATS: go with your FA Step 1. I'm not a fan of changing "gut feeling" answers (even though I did today. I found myself with about 8-10 minutes per block to review my flags. And like others have said, you go with your gut (mark it) and move along. A LOT OF CLINICAL "FEELING" type of questions where there wasn't a clear cut answer.
#USMLE PRACTICE TEST FORUM 2015 FULL#
no need for doubling up practice exams to simulate a full test day). So, if you're studying for long hours, stamina should not be an issue (i.e. I only took UWSA and a COMSAE that my school requires. I'm thinking my long study days helped with that. Finished with plenty of gas still left in my tanks (unlike last year when I was drained). And I KNOW there are questions I goofed (especially as I think back and neurotically look up a few things here and there) but for some reason, I don't feel that bad about the whole experience. I felt a lot better walking out of the Prometric center this time than I did for Step 1 (230s). I have to say, it was NOT as bad as I expected. Just finished this thing about an hour and half ago.
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