Thread: please post your grades here

You can do it as a guess if you dont want people to know your grade, passing or failing please share your grade like this:


Test Date: Sept 18th
Score reported: Oct 11th
Date recieved: Oct 17th

nbme 1 (4 weeks out): 390/190
nbme 2 (2 weeks out): 460/209
nbme 4 (1 week out): 450/206
Kaplan Qbank: overall 62% (last 350 q's 68%)
Usmle CD (two days before): 68%


USMLE STEP ONE SCORE: 215/87

i wish to possibly add up to the roster here soon!
your grades are all inspiring
I am hoping ang praying really hard to belong to your roll!

God please have mercy on me

Scores:

• NBME 1 | January | 188
• NBME 5 | February | 192
• NBME 2 | March | 201
• NBME 6 | April | 209
• NBME 3 | May | 207
• UW Avg: 52% (45% completed)
• Actual USMLE | May 25 | 212/89

Resources:

• FA 2010: Read three or four times cover-to-cover and then focused on my weak areas.
• Rapid Review Path: Read this once cover-to-cover over a 5 day span.
• Goljan Audio: Listened to this once from beginning to end while reading along with a text transcript I had lying around. This took about 8 days, but could easily be done in 4 if he didn't tell so many jokes. I also listened to these when I was driving, and I would have listened to these while I exercised if I had exercised.
• Goljan High Yield PDFs: I found these very useful in the week or so leading up to the exam. Great way to hit the important stuff quickly and keep it fresh.
• Step 1 Recall - Buzzwords for the Boards: Listened to this occasionally, but probably wouldn't recommend it...especially while driving or operating heavy machinery...pretty dry stuff.
• Medical Student's Amnesia: Found this little nugget buried deep in one of my USMLE files--very useful, concise, and high yield
• USMLE World: Meh. A lot of people say to use this as a learning tool, but I just couldn't get into it. The questions were pretty frustrating, and I found myself getting too hung up on my score and trying to rush to the next question, and probably didn't get as much out of the explanations as I could have. Only finished about 45% of the questions. Probably the most beneficial thing about using UW is that it is the exact same format (visually) as the actual exam--I think this helped me feel more comfortable taking the actual exam. One interesting thing I discovered while doing UW questions was that my individual block scores were almost always better when I took them timed than when I took them in tutor mode. : dunno:

Rural family medicine, here I come!

Congrats, Arkie! There is hope, then?!

NBME in st. george taken at the end of second year - score was equivalent to 234


tests done in this the following order
NBME 1 - 600
NBME 2 - 610
NBME 7 - 620
NBME 6 - 620
NBME 3 - 630
NBME 4 - 680
NBME 5- 620


USMLEworld first assessment - 244
USMLEworld second assessment - 262

USMLEWORLD Qbank 1st time - 69%
USMLEWORLD qbank 2nd time - 81%

MCAT 29

GPA - 3.84

resources, goljan, first aid, a few kaplan videos (pharm, behavioural.

Final score: 256

Kaplan qbank (half way done, and a waste of time in comparison) 75%

Bloody brilliant, pathmonster... congratulations! Nice going.

Originally Posted by pathmonster

NBME in st. george taken at the end of second year - score was equivalent to 234


tests done in this the following order
NBME 1 - 600
NBME 2 - 610
NBME 7 - 620
NBME 6 - 620
NBME 3 - 630
NBME 4 - 680
NBME 5- 620


USMLEworld first assessment - 244
USMLEworld second assessment - 262

USMLEWORLD Qbank 1st time - 69%
USMLEWORLD qbank 2nd time - 81%

MCAT 29

GPA - 3.84

resources, goljan, first aid, a few kaplan videos (pharm, behavioural.

Final score: 256

Kaplan qbank (half way done, and a waste of time in comparison) 75%

ROSS COMP: 200 - 5 months
NBME 1: 223 - 6 weeks
USMLE World 1: 219 - 4 weeks
USMLE World 2: 224 - 3 weeks
USMLE World 1st time through: 61%, 63rd percentile
NBME 2: 225 - 2 weeks
NBME 3: 234 - 2 weeks
USMLE Free ?s: 88% - 9 days
NBME 4: 244 - 2 days
USMLE Score: 239\99

Originally Posted by BJS123

ROSS COMP: 200 - 5 months
NBME 1: 223 - 6 weeks
USMLE World 1: 219 - 4 weeks
USMLE World 2: 224 - 3 weeks
USMLE World 1st time through: 61%, 63rd percentile
NBME 2: 225 - 2 weeks
NBME 3: 234 - 2 weeks
USMLE Free ?s: 88% - 9 days
NBME 4: 244 - 2 days
USMLE Score: 239\99

wow outstanding job!

So, I took the beast on Friday (11-26-10).
I had done fairly well on nbmes and uwsa's recently.
Uwsa1=224
Uwsa2=242
Nbme7=234 (4 days before the exam)
Usmle world average= 67% only went thru it once

Exam day-
I was seriously tired because I had such anxiety the night before and slept less then 3 hours. I got to the test center an hour early and seriously considered not taking the exam that day. However, I was so sick of studying that I decided to take the exam just to get it over with. May be not a wise decision in hindsight.

My first two blocks were not bad at all. Felt like uw questions that 50-70% of the pple get correct. Blocks 3-5 were brutal. So many questions which I couldn't even figure out. Loads of graphs to interpret (which I am not always good at). Ridiculous amounts of genetics scenarios which nearly gave me a heart attack.

Easiest portion of my exam was pharm. Nearly all pharm questions could be answered if you know your FA pharm well.

Pathology was a mix bag- some were too easy and others required more thought.

Behavioral- wasnt too bad. Know your formulas and you should be golden. Ethics questions were well, just weird but I think I did okay on those.

Biochem- everything could be found in FA. Some enzyme deficiencies and RLE's.

Embryo- easy if you know FA. Unfortunately I missed a couple of these because I hadnt reviewed embryo for a while.

Physiology- not bad if you have a good grasp of the big picture. They tested understanding rather than memorization on this subject.

Anatomy- mostly easy but some crazy pelvic stuff that looked familiar from 1st semester of basic sciences but I just had to guess on those.

Micro- not bad at all. FA was enough for 95% of it.

Immuno- also not bad, FA covers all the important stuff but there were a few questions which werent very easy. Definitely read kaplan for this if you have the book and time to do so.

Heart sounds- I had 3-4. I am not good at these but 2 of these could be figured out without listening to the audio.

I had a lot of questions which were so long that I had to scroll down the page to look at all the answer choices. Dont get me wrong, there were plenty of 2-3 liners but for the most part, stems were longer than uw. Timing wasn't an issue, I always had atleast 8-10 minutes after finishing the last question in the block. Many q's had a long list of lab values, especially all the heme questions. Overall, I think I got one of the more difficult forms but I am praying that there is very generous curve that goes along with this.

If you've studied hard, 40% of the questions were easy, another 20-30% were doable and required more thought and problem solving. The rest were very difficult for me, meaning I made educated guesses, not always being able to reduce to only two choices. I think there were about 10-20 questions on the entire exam where I didnt know what the heck they were asking or I just wasnt familiar enough with the material and I ended up making blind guesses.

I felt very clam during the exam but when I was driving home, I started to freak out. I now feel as if I may have failed. It's a horrible feeling. The only thing I find comfort in is the fact that most ppl feel this way after the exam. What worries me most is that because I had only 2.5 hours of sleep the night before, it may have cost me relatively easy points. One really needs a well rested mind for this marathon of test.

I took a short break after every block to splash some water on my face, I think this really helped. I also snacked on apples and chex mix every other block. If you are tired on exam day like I was, dont eat a big meal. It will make you more tired. Oh and yeah, I drank two cups of ice cold water from the cooler during every break and this really wakes you up, even more than splashing water on your face.

As for my prep-

I read thru most of the kaplan lecture notes once (a quick read). Then I focused on FA, went thru it about 4-5 times. I did all the uw questions over a period of 2.5 weeks, all random with an average of 67%. I also went thru all the ones I got wrong the first time thru. Did all nbmes and both uwsa's. I also did the free 150 and got 84% the night before the exam. Didnt really go thru RR path, only read select few chapters but as I was taking the exam, I wished I had read more of it.


I'll post an update once I find out how I did. Good luck to all those who are waiting for their score and to all those still preparing for the exam.

Originally Posted by superoxide

I am not a 100% sure about this, but almost all states in the US require that you pass each step in less than 6 attempts. So even if you pass Step 1 on your next attempt, it is highly unlikely that you will get a residency, because a residency will not accept you if you are ineligible for licensure in that state. The odds of passing decrease after every attempt. According to the lastest statistics on the usmle.org website, one has only 39% chance of passing on their second attempt.

superoxide you are right.... i agree with you

xpilot,

what kind of neuro questions did you get? u get any tract lesion questions? cranial nerves?