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hi Kerochi. been a while. best of luck on your exam. you will do well. mine is in a couple of days. just give it your best and stay calm and collected! 
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| LisaM
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Hey Kerochi, All the best with your step one! Try to relax on the day before exam. See you in the step two forums soon!
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| KEROCHI
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hi shyma, hippocampus & lisaM,
Thanks for your wishes. Good luck w/ your test tomorrow hippo! Nail it!!
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| vallia
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I want to say Good luck to the veterans of the forum. I'm looking forward to see your great exam experiences posted here.
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| KEROCHI
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Thanks valia. i hope my score later will be that of a veteran too..
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| KEROCHI
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Help!
I am feeling very low.. As usual when my test comes i feel jittery. i feel that i could never pass this exam ever.. my scores are the same.. qbank 56%, usmlecd, 54%, qbook 54% everything in that range. i think i am just wasting my time as someone close to me have said. Since im an old grad(hate to admit that!!) maybe he's right just make medicine a history for me & just do nursing course.I am losing my confidence big time..... HELP!!
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| sarika
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plz donot feel depressed...i know that these exam scores correlate to the final
score...but thats not always the case...MAybe u r just too nervous n anxious abt
the exam and u r unable to concentrate on the question..(i was doing it so much
so that i was getting half of questions wrong)..it happens stress has a negative
effect on concentration..we all know that right...so my suggestion will be just
take a day off relax....have some icecream... u have come a long way...u have
studied so hard...now its time to be happy abt ur hard work...so relax...we all r
praying for u......abt being an old graduate i have different point of view ..since
we r outta med school for a long time...we have seen life n diseases frm a
different perspective...life in its self is experience...so i think i feel more
confident now than i was a fresh graduate...so goodluck U WILL DO JUST FINE
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| LisaM
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Hey Kerochi, Wake up! Kick that someone close to you who is bringing you down and listen to your friends! look how far you have come in the preparation for this exam! How much you have done, how much you now know that you did not at the start of the preparation! We all have the potential to the ace this test, and man, you have worked for this! I scored 51% in Q bank, and I know people who have graduated 16 years earliar and still done extremely well on the exam. Kerochi, I know this sounds cliched, but dont look at your scores in Q bank etc as some index of performance, but as angles of challenging what you know and what you needed to know!
Kerochi, we both know that smart people have worked hard and still failed this exam, and people have come oput screaming and yelling at what a terrible exam it is and acutally scored wonderfully well. Please try to keep a level head. How did your NBME go? If you are not happy with that score, maybe you should postpone your exam. But if thats a reasonable score, then try to relax, know that you have done your best and leave the rest to God.
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| drworm
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Kerochi....you were one of my main suppports when I took my second attempt at this exam. I hate to see you bring yourself down this way. Please never lose your faith. It's the only thing left in this world when everything looks bad. I went into the exam feeling anxious and came out thinking that my dream of doing medicine in the US was over. My NBME scores were not great so I really was feeling very low. You must have noticed that I stopped posting around then. I would not have been able to face another failure.
But once I got my score you were the first person I thought of. Because everytime I was down and depressed you helped me. I have a lot to thank you for and can only hope that I can give you a fraction of that support. Forget about diagnostic tests, forget about everything. rememebr that you have worked hard, you have read like crazy, think of all the sacrifices you made and believe in yourself. You'll do just fine. I know it.
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| KEROCHI
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When I woke up this morning I said to myself that I'm ready no matter what. When I opened my journal I was sobbing while reading your posts lisaM, drworm & sarika! Gee guys Thanks a million for your support, your encouraging words!! Your words hit me hard> I just hope & pray this week will be over! i'll just be glad to get over this exam. I can't postpone my test anymore LisaM so i have to face reality. Thank you again my forumfriends.
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| reet
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ALL THE BEST FOR YOUR EXAM...
you are the top most person in this forum as u encoraged so many guys out there.and WE ALL pray for you .
DONT OVERSTRESS urself,,but its good if u are little serious about it...cuz sometimes overconfidence is dangerous for us.
DONT THINK EVRYTHING WILL BE ON UR EXAM...only 350 questions out of this HUGE BASIC unlimited medicine.
JUST DO IT!!!!
HOPE FOR THE BEST. YOU WILL BE PAID FOR UR HARD WORK.. TRUST URSELF..believe in GOD.
good luck
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| LisaM
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Kerochi, Good that you brought yourself to reality. I am glad that you are determined to face the exam now. You are bound to do well and get a great score too. I am praying for you right now. See you on the other side soon!
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| drworm
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Best wishes Kerochi! Go for it....and trust in yourself. You will do fine.
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| KEROCHI
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Thanks to all of you my forumfriends! Once again I was a chicken... I don't have the nerve to take the exam this am & postponed it again. I maybe the only person who keeps on chickening out here but I know myself more than anybody else. i know if Im ready or not so i decided to continue my agony of review by postponing my test for the nth time What the heck. i am not ready. So qbank, fa & my own Kaplan notes continue to rule the other side of my life.
To LISAM, Shyma, hippocampus, reet, drworm, sarika, & all of you nice people.. thanks for your support. It's a HARD review... I salute those who already passed their exams.
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| sturge_weber
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hey kerochi,
all the best, as u have more time, do new questions, like bss or may be rapid review series, they will help expand ur knowledge and make u motivated, and keep revising the old stuff, i havent taken the exam myself, but thats what i feel
all the best
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| KEROCHI
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Thanks sturge weber. best of luck in your exam too.
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| KEROCHI
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Still here focusing on questions, questions, questions.. & F FA !!!
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| migs
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Hi kerochi
I just skimmed through this thread. I think that you don't have any problem with your preparations, the only problem you are facing is with yourself. Where's the self confidence mate ? Since you just postponed the exam again perhaps it would do you good to take a few days off and go somewhere calm and quiet so you can relieve the tension and start fresher. That should get your mind off the exam, it's really stressing you out and you need a break.
USMLE is not the end of the world.
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| KEROCHI
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hi migs,
Thanks for the thought & Im more relaxed now but still doing questions. i think i'm pushing myself too much. For sure as i've promised to LISAM I'll take my test on oct. 28th.
It's true self confidence is more important than anything else... It's slowly goingback to my normal self....
Thanks for your concern.. & Pls pray for me..
KERO
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| KEROCHI
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Hi all,
For all of you who have been reading my posts & in a little way i have helped by giving words of wisdom in a "little way" before I am asking for your full support as of now because it's really a stressful thing for me, just the thought of taking the exam makes me feel soo anxious. i am slowly going back to my old self the positive & motivator KEROCHI as I know self confidence is a MUST to take this exam.
As I read all the exam experiences out here it makes me feel as if I have not done my best & that i keep on postponing my exam unknowing that as i do that i am wasting more time & money & energy. Not much of problem about money now but the time is so precious to loose. i will be kicking big time in the next 6-8 weeks once I pass this test. This is a very, very impt. exam for me & i can't afford to take this time again just studying for step 1. I believe that more revisions has to be done that's why i keep on r/s this step but I hope I'm not doing more harm than good w/ my decision but hey I made that decision.
Anyway, i don't have to explain myself, i am just rationalizing my actions. Thanks though for all you out there who gives good & kind advises all the time. What will i do w/o this forumfriends...
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| niti
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Hi KEROCHI,
First of all Thankyou very much for your post in my diary.I just came back from my long vacation & was just checking this journal forum...so, really,I wanted to write some things for you...maybe you will not beleive that once,I was in your position & at that time,I really wanted somebody to support my decesion( regarding my postponing exams )! I postponed it 2 times...which was not a great idea ( specially second time ) ! I became very anxious ..now, I don't beleive that,it was me ? Only a thought of exam gave me a hard time,even, I just wanted to crawl in my bed & sleep whole time ,didn't go in my room for days etc ..hey,I am writing all my silly things just to make you realise that whatever you are feeling..it happens all the time ( I hope..it's normal? ),but the big thing ,I want to say,PLEASE,DON'T postpone your exam more than 4-6 wks & take it NOW...I am positive that you will do great.
For revision,revise all basics first,very few questions in details were asked ( almost none).For example: Gametogenesis..at what stage,what happens ?Don't worry about EKGs & tough physio graphs.All you can answer from the Q stem.
I wish & hope,that you will get strength to take this test very soon.Don't delay the test anymore because of anxiety ( I know,you can justify it ...but,I need to say...simply, its not true that you are not prepared ),re-schedule the test & go for it , I know...the exam is very doable & you will sure come out in flying colours.
With Wishes...
niti
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| LisaM
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Hi Kerochi, Good to see that you have acknowledged your anxiety and decided to tackle it. There will still be times when blind panic over rides rationale but try to get back on track as soon as possible. Somewhere I read something that goes like this- nobody gets extra credit for suffering. So take it easy all the while keeping your focus on your revisions. Our subjects are so volatile afterall. Remember, you have a truckload of friends that have faith in you and wish you well.
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