I was early at the center so I studied some more in my car, scanned the topics I'm confused w/ like

Micro(dsDNA,ssDNA, Rna viruses) & even looked at brachial plexus in my poor FA.
Block 1, 2, 3= doable, I had lunch after block 3
Block 4- hard & the left side of my throat starting to hurt, I can't keep still in my chair anymore. I took
a break & drank my energy drink & had half of my snickers chocolate.
Block 567- it's okay. If I said okay it means 50/50.
My exam consisted mostly of Patho, Physio & Pharma, maybe about 60-65%. The rest were equal
distribution of Biochem, Behavioral Science ( I think I got lots of these!), Micro. Not much of Anatomy&
Genetics. I can remember more than few Immuno & Embryo.I think these are the doable q's that killed
me. I know the answer but I can't remember. So I was dwenked on that.
In Patho, in FA there were 6 q's from the vignette that were very high yield, hypothyroidism, hyperchol,
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, DMD, fat emboli & Pneumonia.No tumor markers, no brain tumors
but lots of blood dyscrasias q's.Endo & Hema were HY!!
In Physio, lots of increase , decrease stuff that I was dwenked on.
I can't believe it.no EKG tracing,
lots of renal , esp. the hormones & GI secretory products. KNOW these very well.

Micro, I said I studied the viruses DNA & RNA in my car bec. I am always confused with these I
remember there was only 1 q about it so I don't know if that was good or bad. I may said it's good.

In Pharma, MOA of drugs as always,

hard drug interactions bec. the q's were in

forms of graphs ( DWENKED!)!! I am soo mad. Now it's getting me.

A lot of anesthesia drugs also. My hubs an Anesth.& we were always joking about Succinylcholine &
there's a q about it.
I don't remember any q about lung volumes.

study visual field defects, spinal cord lesions in FA!!!

Again dwenked..I did not see circle of willis.
In Neuroana,

Gross Ana, I studied brachial plexus but it did not come out.

Embryo there were q's on female & male genitalia.

In Biostat I had 2 calculations,

comes out most]

MMM & Stroke vol.

[mean median mode mode = number

I did not have time to calculate SV.

I know guys out there who would get a perfect score w/ my exam q's but I felt I am not sure about it.
I mean there were few q's that I can't believe were very easy but there were lots & lots of q's that I was
dwenked on. I shared my experience NOW because I don't think i still have the nerve later on if I don't
make it but believe me if the result would be positive I would be WOOO HHOOOIING all over this forum
but my chance is not 100% sure or even 80% or even 70% sure. I don't know.

I regret of doing nbme sooo late during my prep. UW helped me a lot but the q's were very difficult. I
don't even remember if Kap Q Bank helped me bec. I finished that 1 mo. before my test. Honestly...
read your notes or FA during your last week bec. that would help a lot.
This has been a long post, pardon me but as always, telling you all how I went through made me feel
better. I wish you all the success in your review & I hope that one day I don't have to take this exam
again. i would even settle for 75. I think w/ this test I gave my best & it's all up to HIM up there now
who will decide if my best that Im always talking about is good enough.
As you read this.. pls. pray for me...

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SECOND DUDE:
1,2,3block-ok
4,5,7-difficult
6th easiest.

coz i was short of time in the 7th block

THE REAL THING:

guys u wont beleive when i say more than 50% were alcohol related, or had the word 'occassional
alcohol' in their stem.

2-3 qts were repeated.same-ditto!

1 was NBME qt only that the OPTIONS were not the same!

1 was UW qt,i was shocked!

as for experimental qts,i wish all RFLP qts were.couldnt get a clue about them.
overall 60% pathophysio
10% BH
30% mizture of rest.

i got just 2 qts on calculations.

A great advantage was UW which i did after doing NBME.it was a saviour.previously NBME were a foregin
language for me.UW made it so much easier.Q-bank is equally imp.coz it builds the base for UW. exam
was easier than UW i admit.
am praying for everyone to be happy with their result.
as for me ,i want to pass.
the thing is although some qts were extremely easy and some on the other side of pole.weitage for all r
diff.so even if i do 10 easy qts rt and one high weitage qt wrong am at zero(or so i think)-i might be
wrong.
i havent received my result.and i've always been a passimist so dont know what to expect from my
result.
all the best to all the aspirants out there,

hi , dont freak out... you can do it.. exam is in october, so you have time,.. you need to
read your uw notes ( hope you've made them) and FA again and again,.. read pathoma ( I
would have advised goljan, but since you haven't done it from the beginnning of your prep,
so dont do it now),
you need to find out where your prep is lacking, is it a recall prob, or recognizing the
disease ... and yes, you need to do the wrong nbme question, dont leave them.. you might
see them in your exam
i had 221 in nbme 12, and then 245 in nbme 7 in just 1.5 months, my problem was recall,
so i read fa and my uw notes again and again.. i read FA 9 times before i sat for step 1..

i think many questions, close to twenty were strikinly similar atleast. but i should say that the
exam was as tough as uworld for me and the molecular biology questions tougher..

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