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i am a bit poor to narrate an information.there four test at nbme.org.each of them is for $45 .that means for every form you have to pay $45.you can take every form in timed mode,i.e. for each block 1 hour.or self paced mode,i.e.for each block 4 hours.every form is valid till 20 days from the day you start to solve uestions.
if you finished solving one block and you ended that block,you cant review questions in those block,NEVER NULESS YOU PAY ONE MORE TIME TO BUY THE SAME FORM TO SOLVE THAT FORM AGAIN.so they dont have system like Qbank,once you end the exam and it shows your score report.
hope this helps.
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| sachida
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Thanks dipti for information...
I am now getting little scared at times just thinking one exam..$600 and life long goal at stake..Whew..
Well...I wish I can be like horse in a race... they are given those eye covers so they dont get distracted and just stay focused on the race path....
Alright..I will just put up imaginary ones...
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| dipti
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take NBME as soon as possible,you will be like a running horse.and you are doing good good luck
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Oh Gosh!
Had to spend 6 hours at work today..I had present at journal club and finish a presentation I am doing for teleconference..
I need to get back and finish todays goal..may be 3 hrs of sleep lost
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| tolito
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wow sachida. how do you get the energy for 400 qbank questions??? now i am challenged, i will start to do 100!!! i do nto make such great scores on the average so i can tell you that you are almost ready to go so donot be scared. when do you plan to sit the exam?
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| dipti
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good luck!
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| sachida
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Last two days were really bad..some of my co-workers made comments suggesting that my job could be in jeapordy..
Boy! I was little worried and had to spend some time there finishing up my presentations and finally talked to boss...
She said everything is fine...she was actually quite impressed with my presentations so nothing to worry...
But my prep suffered. I doing micro/immuno/drugs...just like in mrs..My q bank effort had stalled but today its back on..did 80% on single block and immuno is going on..I will update as it goes but goal is to finish 300questions. Those stupid viruses and their grouping questions kills me. I can easily diagnose the virus that is responsible but then in the mcq options it is like..is it a single stranded segmented RNA and bla bla bla.. I dont know why the hell physician care..but if it is there in kaplan qbank I am sure they ask it a lot..so I have got to cram that table..
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I dont know when will I take NBME at his rate.. this weekend...
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Update on q bank:
Micro 78%, Immuno 74% I got so scared initially in micro section I had 8 wrong out of 20 but then only one wrong in next 30...
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| aliya2003
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hey sachida u r doin great!
hang in there .viruses scare me alot too + there is alot of stuff while i'm reading it i keep thinking who wuld remember which codon or which exact gene locus wuld cause the disease once u r done with USMLE but these r exactly the things they ask on the exam 
u r getting excellent scores . hope i culd get such good score too.good job and good luck
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Thanks aliya...I think I got bit carried away too with scores and bombed the last block in micro yesterday night..just 66%..May be i was too tired and or the questions attacked my weak defenses..I still have to finish two more blocks on micro then I will start behavioral sciences...
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End of Micro...76% from 300 questions (two qbook blocks and four qbank blocks). I am alteady late by 6 hrs for today. Now starting beh science
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thanks for stoping by,you are doing really good with qbankyes,i took nbme 1 ,because it was necessary to wake up this slow snail to run for the final race.you will be surpriced because my exam i have taken date may 15!!but that is all depend on my nbme 3.if i go above 500 then only i am ready to go.otherwise i am postponing.
purpose of my taking exam date was to make a fix target so that i can have that level anxiety and sincereness.because its really hard me to study withuot any motivation,and this date is one of those motivations.
but NBME really helps .but i am giving very low performance on BS ,biochem and h sto..i hate those subject,but it seems those gonna kill me
it depends on you when to take NBME,but take early.with such a good score in qbank you will take 500 plus definatelygood luck!!
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well the problem is my scores so far are from micro/immuno/patho/physio/mol bio/genetics still anatomy/pharmac/beh science/biochem a big chunk is remaining in q bank. So I can not generalize at this point as you know from your own experience Dipti, couple of subjects poor performance can kill you...so I am trying my best to wrap up by weekend and have atleast a week left to study nbme results...
I think you are right about setting up dates...I should have done that too early I think material i studiedin last 15 days after registering for date has been much better then earlier 5 months.
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Just for fun I calculated using several tools how much score I can improve if I increase %of correct answer on q bank by ONLY 1% (75% to 76%)
You want beleive I can increase my score by 3 on 3 digit score...wow so every little bit matters.
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| cool_guyp4u
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Way to go ! When is your NBME?
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Yesterday night, I attempted a genetics 50 question q bank and got a shocker. I got only 55%. ALL of my frequency related and probability related question were wrong. I realized that I had completely overlooked two simple formulas - 1> p2+2pq+q2=1 and p+q=1 2> While counting probabilty on pedigree, if there are 4 sibs and one already had the disease that menifests at yong age in Autosomal recessive disease, you have to exlude him in probability. Let me explain the second one...If you are looking at sick cell pedigree generation that has four children and one already had diagnosed disease. what will be the probability that out of three other apperently normal siblings a pointed individual is a carrier. Now according to AR rules 25% chance of disese, 50% are carrier and 25% are normal (given parents are heterozygous). Since already one person has a diagnosed disease. Answer will be 2/3 or 66% not 2/4 or 50%.
I got pretty sad with the score but on the other hand I got to know my weaknesses.
Beh science is going on as you will notice I was supposed to finish it yesterday but I ended up doing more genetics for morning to clear up confusion..I did find some qbank questions unclear and alternative answers possible but that is a different topic. I hope I wont get some questions in board like that.
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In regards to AR pedigree, remember that in absence of pedigree, probability of being a carrier remains same as 50% if the children are unborn. Meaning that lets say parents come to you for genetic counselling and they already had a diseased child and they ask what is the probability that my next kid will be a carrier Answer-50% since this will be an independent event.
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collguy I have been postponding my NBME for quite a while and I am running out of the time..hopefully this weekend. Sunday.
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Not that they will test this on usmle but a drug to treat pompes disese got approved yesterday
The drug mozyme will cost wooping 300000$/year..
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BS revision over. Qbank score first block 68%.
All wrong questions were about patient and physician conversation. These questions are long and very very confusing ...
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72% on second block...I am so tired now going to get some sleep
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BS is over..72% overall (140q). I am not happy with it. Lot of it I should have got it right. Hopefully I will do better in real exam..
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I havent been able to finish review of all subjects and hence neither nbme. Quite scary lets see how it goes.
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sachida wrote:
I havent been able to finish review of all subjects and hence neither nbme. Quite scary lets see how it goes.
Dude,
Did you actually pp your exam?
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