scooby
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hi guys...my score arrived today and i got 221/90.
it feels great to touch 90  )
now about my preparation hoping it would help a few of you.
i studied for about 2 1/2 months.
one reading of FA. i am bad at pharma and anat but goljan 100 pages was more than enough for me.
goljan 100 pages twice...once halfway during preparation
and once the night before the exam.
i also read goljan 35 pages.
heard the goljan audio during the initial days of preparation.
did almost all the 3000 odd questions from BRS.
did about 1000 and more q's from kaplan q bank downloaded in the site.
did q's from NMS and every source i could lay my hands on.
(did not do any usmle world q's)
did not subscribe for nbme but did all the 4 forms downloaded from the site.
some did not have answers for which i searched google
for histo and neuro anat i searched google for relavant websites and looked at very few pics.
initially i thought my prep was inadequate but the score shows otherwise)
i took the exam on 25th sept in india.
the day before the exam i had good sleep and was pretty happy that i was going to
finish off with it. i had tea in the morning.
my exam started at around 9 and i did 2 blocks at a stretch. i took a 10 min break for breakfast.
got back to the exam and did 2 more blocks.
then a 5 min break for some sweets
then the last 3 blocks. my mind was sooo numb by the time i did the 5th block that i wanted
to be out of there as soon as possible. so i did not break for the next 2 blocks.
i left the hall with more than half an hour break time
the questions were more like those in nbme forms. some q's repeated from them too.
do know them well. there were a few q's to which i had no clue about what they were asking...
make a guess and move on. i had about 8 min left on average in each block...i marked more than
half the q's thinking i would ponder over them in the remaining time but i stuck to the first answer mainly.
to q's i had no clue at all...i would not even mark them...i would make a choice and never return back to those questions...
if we keep going back to past q's in a block..we could end up wasting a lot of time.
at home i normally would take about 30-35 min to finish of a block but on the exam i took about 50 min.
so while practicing do keep an eye on the clock and try to do q's as fast as possible.
even on the exam we don't have to be 100 % sure of an answer...if you feel it looks right..it most probably is
for the first block take a deep breath and start off right away...because we don't yet have a feel of the exam.
adjust yourself to the chair( which isn't very comfy) and put on the earplugs even if u don't need them...for me...the hall was filled
with students writing other exams and they were hitting the key board with a vengance...so its always better to have the earplugs
also doing a whole lot of q's from any good source helps a lot. the main exam would feel like
another of the practice exams we take at home then.
be very confident....i came out of the hall ok but after about 15 days, i would get flashes of a few q's which i
thought were wrong .its ok...none of us can do all 350 q's right...right?!
i checked oasis on deewali. it said score reported and the oasis trick worked.
for a summary i would say...do FA and goljan...notes, pics ,audio and comprehensive test.loads and loads of q's.make good use of the break time on the exam and be confident...
i don't know about 99 but these materials will definitely help you guys with a score better than mine.
wishing all of you a very very good luck.
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| vallia
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congratulations!
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| zenith
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congratulations!!!
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| young_doc
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Congrats!!! See you in the Step 2 forums?!!
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| scooby
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thanku sooooo much vallia, zenith and young_doc.
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| klimt
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congrats, that's great! Good luck from now on!
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| MRMAVERICK
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congrats
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| unique1
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Congratulations!!!!!
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| hiranmayi
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hi,congrats on that great score.did you prescibe for the online kaplan qbank?i am asaking this because even I have downloaded the qbank but want to know if it is enough or i have to prescribe. one thing more can you tell me where to get the nbme forms and answers.could you send them to my email(drhiran03@yahoo.com) as i have exam in one month,
hoping to recieve a reply soon
thanks in advance
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| focusmle
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CONGRATULATIONS!!
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| Malithahe
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Hi,
please tell me the urls of web sites that I can download free step 1 MCQs. I did Kaplan q bank and now the subscribed period is over. But scores were not good and I need to do more and more qs
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| pocas
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wow nice experience , thanks
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