sajoramoca
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 Hello everybody, I feel very bad because I fail step 1, I had been studied for 5 month, I don't know what was happened to me, but I do USMLEWORD and I get 70 % untimed But 55 or 58 on timed simulation, somebody can give me some idea about what i should do, I must to take the exam again on April, to have chance for the 2008 mach, thanks a lot for your hel
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| Ancylostoma
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dont worry, work on your test taking skill and reading the questions. read the first section of q book. It should help you find a routine and then work hard to make it happen.
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| doctor2b
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Hi,
I believe everything will work out just fine. Find out what your lowest subject is and work on that. you will able to pass next time since your scores are so high. I wish you the best.
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| Summer.Thunder
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I know sometimes you just get frustrated, how come there are smart people in harvard, yale, and you are having trouble. and sometimes you feel like william hung, you have already given your best try, how come the result is still not satisfying.
I don't have any advice, but I know how you feel. Don't give up though.
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| dr_maverick
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nevermind
try it again
Make ur schedule and follow it
Good luck!
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| Sayulita
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Well I Honor you Honesty
Try again if you really want to DO IT it may take you 10 times to take the exam
but it only takes ONCE to pass !
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| hypomanic
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My advice would be do some kind of a postmortem analysis- This is going to be tough and you might not want to face what you see- But if you want to do better I guess its necessary to know where you went wrong- Like somebody already suggested- have a look at the tips in kaplan Qbook-before the questions- Do a test aunder timed conditions and see what is going wrong Some possibilities:
Time pressure- spending too much time on 1 tough question and rushing through the next 5 easy questions and making silly mistakes
Not understanding the concept behind the questions- the questions will not be worded the same way in the real test as they are in the Q banks but they will test similar concepts
Test anxiety- I know some friends who hardly slept before the exam and freaked out on test daybut when they answer the same questions later they seem to do fine
Going through a bad phase overall in life during the test- sometimes all the stupid things seem like they happen the day before/during the test
Try to recollect what topics were your weakest and work harder on them- also some people suggest not giving the step1 until you get a particular NBME score indicating that you are ready
Best of luck
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| braindoc1
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I too didn't make it my first time.....am scheduled to take the step 2 CS in a few weeks in Houston then back to Florida to take Step 2 CK in April.....Am finishing the Kaplan Review in Houston, have had good instructors and there seems to be a lot of step 1 stuff that was recovered......I hope that taking it in reverse proves successful, I had signed up for step 2 review prior to step 1 results being posted.....needless to say with my 167 I was disappointed, but not to be distracted......We start to post on a regular basis and will comment on my CS experience when I finish it.....any advice and suggestions will be appreciated.....
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