10-22-2006, 10:47 AM
.....and thanks to everyone in this forum.at last i have cleared this exam.It feels great .Took the exam on sep27th got the results yesterday .pretty quick for my calculation.
Happy Diwali to all. I'll always remember this diwali.
Got 83 in the actual exam
420 in nbme 10days before the exam
This is my 2nd attempt [got 74 in the first]
i prepared from UW quetions and kaplan q bank and Q book.
the difference from my first time preparation was concentrated more on mcqs and went through all the mcqs atleast twice
also read crush and swanson's family practice.Initially thought wont read any notes since had read them for the first attempt and felt would remember them.but later started getting tensed
and when there was 10 days left just scanned thru kaplan step 3 notes quickly. towards the end i tried to concetrate more on my weak areas which i gathered from my failed score report and nbme data [which were similar.....like for example adolescent age group and continued care etc]
for CCS read UW world twice and also tried to work out usmlesteps 123 ,although couldnot complete all cases.but this really helped my confidence in CCS and also quickness in which i was able to type in the next step and the sequence in which case shud proceed .i also worked the usmle cd for ccs and just tried out all the imp investigations by typing them in the same cd
i didnot keep track of my score in UW world qs and kaplans qs cause i could recall quite a lot from my previous preparation and felt that wouldnot correlate with the exam score
1st day initial blocks were ok,then towards the end the emergency blocks had lengthy qs with unecessary info and was tiring and also confusing .somehow was able to complete them all
the 2nd day was also similar .almost all ccs cases improved although none of them finished ahead of time and that was a bit scary since i beleived that if u finish them before the alotted time ,u have done well.but i guess not.since i passed
about the mcqs ,i felt they were very similar to both UW and kaplan material,infact a few questions i got were directly from these material word to word ,and few again the questions were the same but the choices were altered .and then there were few questions which were repeated not only in different blocks but in the same block like for example post menopausal bleeding-what is the next step-endometrial biopsy[by the way this topic was tested so many times ,i couldnt beleive it,felt as if i read the same question again and again in all blocks ] and also a picture of malignant melanoma asking the most imp prognostic factor -depth or width [just the pictures were from diff subjects]topics mostly questioned were geriatrics ,adolescents ,gyn ,and neonatology,contineud care
CCS cases were ok, direct,although wouldnt like to mention them here.but all of them were from UW cases.
anyway,sorry for lengthy explanation ,but couldnt make it short
good luck to everybody preparing for this exam.IF u have prepared from basic materials [UW and kaplan]it should be good.and you can clear and score well
as for me i am very excited ,since i am done with the usmle exams,esp during this interview season
thanks and gl
Happy Diwali to all. I'll always remember this diwali.
Got 83 in the actual exam
420 in nbme 10days before the exam
This is my 2nd attempt [got 74 in the first]
i prepared from UW quetions and kaplan q bank and Q book.
the difference from my first time preparation was concentrated more on mcqs and went through all the mcqs atleast twice
also read crush and swanson's family practice.Initially thought wont read any notes since had read them for the first attempt and felt would remember them.but later started getting tensed
and when there was 10 days left just scanned thru kaplan step 3 notes quickly. towards the end i tried to concetrate more on my weak areas which i gathered from my failed score report and nbme data [which were similar.....like for example adolescent age group and continued care etc]
for CCS read UW world twice and also tried to work out usmlesteps 123 ,although couldnot complete all cases.but this really helped my confidence in CCS and also quickness in which i was able to type in the next step and the sequence in which case shud proceed .i also worked the usmle cd for ccs and just tried out all the imp investigations by typing them in the same cd
i didnot keep track of my score in UW world qs and kaplans qs cause i could recall quite a lot from my previous preparation and felt that wouldnot correlate with the exam score
1st day initial blocks were ok,then towards the end the emergency blocks had lengthy qs with unecessary info and was tiring and also confusing .somehow was able to complete them all
the 2nd day was also similar .almost all ccs cases improved although none of them finished ahead of time and that was a bit scary since i beleived that if u finish them before the alotted time ,u have done well.but i guess not.since i passed
about the mcqs ,i felt they were very similar to both UW and kaplan material,infact a few questions i got were directly from these material word to word ,and few again the questions were the same but the choices were altered .and then there were few questions which were repeated not only in different blocks but in the same block like for example post menopausal bleeding-what is the next step-endometrial biopsy[by the way this topic was tested so many times ,i couldnt beleive it,felt as if i read the same question again and again in all blocks ] and also a picture of malignant melanoma asking the most imp prognostic factor -depth or width [just the pictures were from diff subjects]topics mostly questioned were geriatrics ,adolescents ,gyn ,and neonatology,contineud care
CCS cases were ok, direct,although wouldnt like to mention them here.but all of them were from UW cases.
anyway,sorry for lengthy explanation ,but couldnt make it short
good luck to everybody preparing for this exam.IF u have prepared from basic materials [UW and kaplan]it should be good.and you can clear and score well
as for me i am very excited ,since i am done with the usmle exams,esp during this interview season
thanks and gl
.anyway atleast i passed this time.