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a big big congrats.I remember how u took ck in very adverse circumstances. It made my silly day-to-day probs seem so small, and inspired me when I was in my last days of ck prep.
We all went thru' together in the prep, and now all of you ve begun to get your results, with such good scores.My cs is after 2 days. Then 2ck results in 1-2 weeks.Then-end of the story----or rather the beginning of a new one.
ACHILLES, all the best!!
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thanks so much to all of you for the kind and inspiring words...they mean a lot to me. it feels like the good ol days of college where we used to meet our friends daily and pep each other up to do our best.
study is going on but not at the pace i would like it to. its a little slow. i am going through questions now and their explanations mostly as they are helping me to revise the topics as well. i hope i am on the right track.
hey drkpp, hats off to you for getting an amazing score after all the distractions you had in the last days. and i am just trying to study as much as i can and i hope i pass this exam too.
alina congratulations on the dream score once again. you are also all set for this year's match. good luck. yes i am done with my canadian exams and will be applying for a residency spot in this year's match in canada. not very hopeful though of getting a spot as there are very few residency spots. traditionally only about 10% of IMG's match in canada...and if that sounds less then how does approx 250 residency spots all over canada sound !!! so i am not very hopeful for canada.
3535, good luck to you for your CSA.
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Congratulations drkpp!!Great score!
achilles..hope you're doing alright.Five more days till D-day for me...trudging along trying to review stuff..seems somewhat futile though cos I end up with tons left to cover each day...but I move on...hopefully my remote memory will come into play during the exam.I'm going to be going through medicine starting tomorrow....I am tempted to just go through my UW explainations...its quite overwhelming to look at the text at this stage.Better be off...back to the grind.
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gulp !! just 5 more days...and thats when i will also start going over all my medicine too...right now 11 days for me and as of now study is not best and i am trudging along and waiting for this exam. hope i can do well although my nbme scores dont say that(got 450 in nbme1 and still to take the 2nd one) but i guess this is all i can do so thats it. i have the same feeling about not been able to review all that i think of everyday.
i am going thru my uw explanations and the questions i marked. yu study well cyra and good luck for your exam and keep a balaned head, which yu already have  for the exam. and last half day just prepare yourself mentally. i wish yu the best for this exam.
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Hi Achilles, when are you planning to take NBME two? You may want to take it as soon as possible so you will have time to balance out your weak areas and any surprises the score sheet may show. Please try to do your best under the circumstances you find yourself in and not worry too much! All the best to you too, Achilles!
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cyra and achilles...good luck to u both..u guys r so hardworking and that will surely be rewarded...keep reading ur UWnotes and solving qu till the day before, the usmle cd is a good thing to do on the day before the exam...
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thanks so much for the good wishes lisaM and an. it means a lot to me. i am not sure about nbme 2 and i thought it better to go over areas that i know are weak and go over what i have done sometime back so that i dont have to struggle to remember it.
cyra, one more day for you. keep a cool head and go inside with confidence. keep a watch on the time and take enough fuel with you to keep you going for 9 hrs. GOOD LUCK for the exam cyra !
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Best of luck to all of you people. Just one thing, in the exam all you have to do is relax and take one question at a time and then move on without actually worrying about the previous question. I know its difficult but its the only way you can keep going for 9 hrs. The best approach would be to go to the test thinking of it as another usw block and that too without having to go throught the explanations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LisaM,an,drkpp...thanks for the support and the tips!I really appreciate it!
achilles...Thanks a whole bunch for your wishes.Your advice comes at a great time...I am in the process of psyching myself out for D-day and reading the do-s you listed is great reinforcement!Last few days for you too....you'll have your highs and lows....for me...there have been days where I was so depressed and low on confidence that I just didn't feel like getting out of bed!I feel much better now though(good thing too...cos half the battle is won up there in our minds!).I'll be going through a couple of things here and there tomorrow and will stop by the afternoon.I'll post when I get back.Good luck with your review achilles and thanks once again.
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achilles...just got back.I hope you are doing fine and your prep is coming along ok...last few days and you'll be free!!!It is indeed a very liberating feeling....just thought I'd check in on you.If I can be of any help...do let me know.
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hey cyra ...good now that you are finally finished with step 2...i am tired now and just waiting to get over with the exam.
wish you good luck for the results which is surely going to be a gr8 score. and a big thanks for the wonderful support yu have always given. i read your exam experience and believe me it will come handy when i sit for my exam a few days from now.
cyra, can you pls tell me which ecg's and pic's to go over for the final revision.
and not to mention that it has been an amazing experience sharing this study time with you all and i have truly enjoyed this time. good luck to all of us for everything that lies ahead of us.
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drkpp, buddy thanks for the tips yu have always given...and this last one will surely help me in preparing myself mentally for the exam. good luck to yu too for the match !!
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achilles...you're most welcome!You're almost there....and the best thing is you have taken comparable exams(the canadian one) and that will definitely help.Don't over burden yourself with too much during these last few days.LisaM told me to pamper myself and thats exactly what I did.Just leave any anxiety you may have outside the test center.I am sure you'll do great!
I really didn't look at many pics...i did have a few X rays and EKGs but like I said...you'd know what they are talking about without looking at the image.I was apprehensive about the pics and images too but I really don't think they are too big on this for this exam.For the EKG's...I listened to fischer's lecture(I hope you have it...its the last one in the cardio series)...and I think it was just perfect cos he does a great job.Although I didnt have any fetal heart tracings...I know they do show up on the exam....do have a look at those too.
Again...all the best achilles!
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achilles,I hope your spirits are high and you are all set to take on the exam tomorrow.You've worked very hard and it will definitely pay off.There will be times during the exam(although I really do hope there aren't) where you might feel lost or dejected...just keep at it and give it your very best!The very best of my good wishes for you...I'll be praying.
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All the very best to you, Achilles! 
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B.O.L. achilles. All of our prayers are with you.....
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thanks a lot cyra, lisaM and drkpp for all your wishes.
i finally took the exam yesterday. i dont think i have done what i could have ! i dont know what to say... it sounds like the post exam feeling that everyone has but i know i havent done too well. i hope i get thru and even if i have a decent score i'll be very happy. and this is a true feeling.
cyra, you were right about feeling dejected during the exam and there were times when i felt like that... i had no clue of the answer to many questions. and there was a lot of pediatrics in my test !!! why ?? if only i had read pediatrics much better. and the rest was medicine. there were very less questions from surgery and obgyn and psychiatry and stats. just like 2-3 questions from each of them in every block.
anyways lets see what comes out of this test. i may sound not so enthusiastic about the test but .... and then there was a power failure when i was at my 2nd block and the proctor came in and announced that our test is saved. but then i met a test taker(he was giving step 2 ck too) in the subway and he said that he had lost all his answers and he had to mark all of them again !!! i did not even check if the answers to the 18 questions i solved were saved or not. i just went ahead and finished the rest of the block as i was anyways short of time on that block as i found it very difficult.
all said and done i just hope i pass this test and get a decent score. i'll be happy.
and i want to thank each one of you. it has been a pleasure and an honour to be able to share this time and prepare along with such wonderful people.
and now i have toefl on 12th and then the OSCE ( canada exam ) on 30th sept and the mccqe2(another canada exam !! ) on 28th oct, so i still have a lot of reading to do. but today i'm going to take it easy and chill out for a while before i start again. good luck to everyone.
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achilles...I am so sorry to hear about the power failure!!!!I hope and pray that your answers were saved....I am thinking that if the answers to those questions were lost then they should have shown up as marked with that little "i" for incomplete....so hopefully there should be no cause for concern here.I felt crappy when my exam ended and worse the next day as I recalled stuff I had missed and all the "what in the world are they asking" questions that I had guessed on....but thats all part of the game.I guess its also natural to selectively remember stuff you found difficult or were unsure of anyways.Well,lets just hope for the best and make headway towards our next exams.Good luck with your upcoming canadian exams achilles....Keep us posted!
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thanks cyra, what yu say makes sense...i hope my answers were saved. as far as i can remember there was no mark on the questions i answered and i can remember vaguely that they were blue in color and not red . i hope they were saved as they are a substantial number of questions.
anyways i am going to call ecfmg today and then email them about what happened. i went thru the information booklet and they dont have much info on what to do in such a situation which by itself is unique.
going to get my toefl book right now and start reading for it. some of my friends here are saying that it wont be a cakewalk as most of the provinces in canada ask for a score of 100 on the toefl-ibt. so i'd better get over with it while i can.
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achilles...I am sure your answers were saved...no matter how distressed you may have been...those red "i's" would've been hard to miss...so don't sweat it.It is a good idea to let ECFMG know about this mishap.....there was a post here where someone had to retake the exam due to a pwerfailure...I found the link for you...mebbe you could get in touch with that person and see what he/she did.
http://www.prep4usmle.com/forum/thread/36671
TOEFL will be a breeze for you....no worries about that either.I am trying to block out any thoughts whatsoever about messing up on CK and trying to concentrate on preparing for CS.Off for now...take care.
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Hi Achillis,
just dont worry abt that ,i hope u'll score great.Now its time to concentrate on other examz ,as like me u have to take two more canadian examz.I've send u a pm at rxpg abt img school mock exam.....if u wanna take mock exam then get ur registration as soon as possible,b'coz its osce season and the places fill out very rapidly.So just go to img school site and get the information.
Good luck for allll examz.
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thanks cyra...i read the information bulletin and found not much on an issue like this in the bulletin so just wrote an email to ecfmg and let them know of what happened. i'll let yu know when i get their reply. and thanks for all your wonderful support like always. its really amazing with the way yu help.
thanks nazia for the nice advice...i'll book a place for myself today itself.
as of now i was just having a break and there were a lot of fun things i needed to catch on...so did just that
it took me a couple of days to get over the power failure issue and now i'll just take what comes and i think that i might have not lost those questions as i think they were blue and not red with an 'i' beside them so i think i should be ok.
hows your study going on nazia ? if there is one thing i would have done one more time it would be usmleworld...it is actually very close to the real exam and is a little tough than the real exam especially the answer choices in uw are much closer than in the real exam. so good luck with your preparation and let us know if we can be of any help.
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Hi Achilles, Got your results yet?
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hey lisaM...gr8 to hear from you here...hows your prep for step 3 going on ? i just did the oasis trick and got the red screen that says that i passed the test so now waiting for the score sheet. its amazing how i found friends here and i missed yu all guys...you, cyra, drkpp and the way we used to have discussions here...i cleared my toefl too and the reason i am not here on the forum now is that i managed to get an observership here in canada. hopefully it should be of help to me in usa too. right now i am looking at the canada match this year and lets see what happens. i have confirmed that the usmle's are also counted when one applies for a residency in canada so hopefully i should be good for this year's canada match but nothing is certain in canada health system so i'll just take it one step at a time and work hard and see what happens. i hope yu are studying hard...to me you guys will always inspire me in all the things i am going to do. good luck to all friends here and i shall post yu guys on my result ( whatever it is
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Congratulations on passing CK, Toefl, and getting the observership! My step 3 prep is coming along- could be better! All the best for a great score!
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