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my exam in 5 days.
UWSA 213... 6 weeks before
NBME 2 380.... 3 weeks before.....totally lost my confidence. Not able to concentrate.
Did MTB 3 - 3 times, Archer once, Kaplan Q bank once, UW Q bank 1 and half times. CCS 2 times. cancel or not? unable to decide....NOT CONFIDANT.cant risk a fail...need a pass
Going through mental agony
please please help
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My suggestion is go ahead to the exam. Everyone said NBME2 is difficult and not a good indicator of the final score.
Here's my NBMEs,UWSA and final score correlation:
NBME2- 14 days before exam: 380
NBME3- 10 days before exam: 490
UWSA 7 days before exam: 520/222
Final Score: 216
Preparation time: 3 months, 6-8 hrs/day
MCQ: UW 1.5 times (wrong and marked questions for the 2nd time)
Read MTB3 a little bit (took CK 9 months before step3, read twice
of MTB3 when prepared for CK)
CCS: UW 52 cases twice, 41 cases once. Archer CCS video 30 hrs.
In the exam, I got 10 long CCS cases and 2 short CCS cases
My CCS performance is above the borderline.
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Agree with tina.
Go take the test. Many say that NBME 2 is hard and often it under predicts the real score.
If you did well on CK you will do well on step 3 too.
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ck 218....step 1 : 223
took step 2 ...2 yrs ago. Thanks for the reply @ alexa and @ tina.
I need confidence. Never felt this way before for any exam
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please any more suggestions from doctors who already did the exam.desperate
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Iam just scared. but I think I will do that...Thank you @sun2012.
