Resident
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The step 3 has been the bane of my existence. I tried to take it with a couple of odd weeks prep as an Ob-Gyn intern, and missed passing by only a few points. I have left Ob this year to apply to Path. I took Kaplan out of desperation, and when I retook the test my time got cut short thanks to a recurrent computer bug in my test. The USMLE is now reviewing my case. What do you all think? I did well on Step 1, passed Step 2 (barely), and am applying for Path. I don't know how I did on Step 3, try #2, only that I never answered ~20 of the questions, and was freaking out over the others, thanks to recurrent error messages that occured during the other questions. I have already put ~3 months into studying and am very disappointed with the snafus that occured when I took the test this second time (naturally wanting to ace it this time!), and haven't been able to drag myself into studying again.
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| Darryn
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You have my heartfelt sympathy - that is a disaster really, with the whole computer malfunction. I can only hope that USMLE will give you credit for the questions you did right and not count the ones that you couldn't attempt because of computer error. The exams are hard enough as it is without computer errors tripping you up. The people administering the exam have the responsibility and the duty to ensure that the program thay use to test candidates is reliable, and if an error occurs that prevents you from fairly attempting all questions under standard testing conditions, you should be allowed to retake the exam for free at a time convenient to you, either the next day or whenever; or they have to be extremely "fair" when it comes to marking your work....but if they fail you because their computer crashed, you should hire a lawyer and sue I reckon, because that would not be fair.
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