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  #1

I was wondering how many silly mistakes one can make and still do well. Cause I realized I made quite a number like realy stupid mistakes. It sucks cause the questions were easy but I guess I just got tired towards the end and made those errors. any feedback is greatly appreciated especially from those who've written the exam and gotten their score.

  #2

Man its not u r fault i can remember 15 stupididst mistakes i made so may its what they want us to do.
i got 200/82
my mistakes were in:
1 aspirin action
2 acetylcholine metabolism
3 pcp as sign of aidsa
4 lung capacities( can u believe)
and few other more dumb than this. As goljan says they can even make u forget u r name and that is true. I was well prepared for secondaries and complex than that so where simple straight questions came i was just thinking. they will put some complex ones. so dont worry we r just human and these r just book worm questions. do well opn step 2 & we will crush the stupid USMLE.

  #3

Mine were similar:
FRC mistake this one burnt me and the worst thing was I was telling my friend wat FRC was the night before
mech of mifepristone
attachment site for scalene anterior
and a couple others. the good news is I got a lot of the hard ones right but i guess i kinda sped through these ones too fast.
My advice: don't ever get overconfident?

  #4

hi :
i made a lot of stupid mistakes on my exam, like those u mentioned
" antibiotic mechanisms, B12 defeciency..." i expected that i was going to have bad score, but the end was happy ....i got my99

  #5

after I read this post, I too realized that I made some pretty stupid mistakes. About ten of them and im wondering if there are more. Mine were: blood typing, PPV calculation, brain stem cranial nerve identification, lesion in of the brachial plexus. I dont think im gonna pass. sad

  #6

I honestly have no idea how I've done - every q I remember I seem to have done wrong - so far 10 - 12 in all - I can't seem to remember the rest!!!
The worst is my daughter kept me up the night before the exam - not blaming her but wishing my logistics had been better. I feel I gave the exam in a real fog. my husband had the day off - and you won't believe he was there every break with coffee b'cos I nearly fell asleep in the first block - yeah was so d____ d tense that just wanted to give it all up!!
So the coffee got me going after a while but i feel i worked my way thru a cloud. By 4 I was climbing the walls and made ridiculous mistakes.
Can you at least remember the q's you got right? :shock:







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