v2k
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Finally...Finally ....Finally...the glorious red screen appeared....I have been waiting for this for almost SIX years...Yes six long precious years. This was my third atempt. I took it on May 29. Almost the longest wait in this July 18 oasis update thing. I will definitely be happier no matter what my score would be. I simply could have not gone through the whole step 1 preperation again. I took my step 1 for the first time in 2002 december. I failed. I could not believe because i was doing fairly well on the question sources we had at that time. Mot of my friends who were at my level and many who were below easily passed or atleast got a passing score. So then i was completely lost and could not tell to others about my plight nor go out publicly and read/study with friends.....Then after 2-3 months of despair i finally picked up courage and read for 2 or 3 months....It was a nightmare....Now i even cant remembr how long i prepared at that time. Preperation at that time was secretive. I had not told the whole world that i had failed and had to sit and study in my room without others figuring it out . While i ws studying then everything seemed famiiiar and i took the exam again only to know that i failed once again. Thats it that was the biggest downfall and i guess i can call it a major depression in my life. I was a very succesful person untill then. Then i lost hope courage and strength in what ever i did. My situation was so bad that i coud not let go the whole USMLE thing and move on with other things in life or come back and study AGAIN...Then over the 4 years i was wasting my life...not believeing in anything and hoping to clear the exam some day....In the 4 years from 2003 to 2007 after i had failed twice, i had applied for the exam step 1 , 3 or 4 times but could not take the exam beacuse of loss of confidence. all the 4 times i had even paid for the extension of the testing period..what a waste of money resouces and most importantly my time....Finally i applied for the dec 2006 to feb 2007 slot and extended again to march 2007 to may 2007 slot and finally took the exam on may 29...Just 2 days before my testing period would have expired once again like the previous ocassions. I have started preparing seriously this time after a really long break of 2-3 years from Oct 2006. By Jan 2007 i thought i was ready. Then i did usmle world questions. These were my first questions in this preperation. I did them subect wise. In most of the sublejects i was scoring cummulative sunject wise at between 58- 70 %, except for pharm and path. Pharm my score was only around 50% and path also i guess was at the same level. Then again i had to read these two subjects thoroughly and then i answered some kaplan question bnks and was doing fairly OK. Then i thought it was time to take the nbme and see where i am. In the nbme 1 i faired miserably at 360 so it would have been 80 percentile. This was in march 1st. Most of the questions i knew answers went wrong becasue it has been long earlier to the nbme 1 since i have revised. So again i revised twice for 2 months with simultaneously doing kaplan q bank online daily 2 blocks. cumulative. There i was sometimes scoring 70 percent sometimes 48 percent. On an average my cumulative was 60 percent after competing 60 percent of q bank. I was completely drained and i didnt know how i could further increase my score. so i was even scare to go and take nbme. Finally i went and took the exam with lots of hope thats all...During the exam, first block went well..2nd was ok....3 one was very tough had to guess last 8-10 questions in 60 seconds..then 4567 were just ok or i did not know how i was doing...but finally it was over and i had could not really figure out how i did...so was not sure what to expect other than to just pray and hope and to forget the exam experience and wait for the long July 18...On the midnight i saw at 12:40 that my OASIS was updated but i did not have the courage to do the OASIS trick. I tried to shut down computer and did not know what to do...But finally at 1:00 in the afternoon i picked up the courage and did the oasis trick and found tat i have passed.It is all over now and i would gladly take whatever my score would be. Good luuck to every one.. truly from the bottom of my heart.
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| hedieh
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Congratulations!!!!!!!!!
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| Feyza
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hats off to your consistency dear !!!!!
c ya in step 2 forum 
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| Step1sucks
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Congratulations v2k!!! Reading your post was seriously very inspiring! I've actually been in the same situation... First attempt at step 1 was Dec of last year (failed with a 179). It took me a couple of months to get back into studying since I felt hopeless and felt I would never make it. I have my exam date set up finally for 2nd week of August.... we shall see how that goes. Any words of advice on how you studied better this time around? ohh and did you end up taking any other NBME's apart from form 1.
congrats again and GL for step 2!
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| GoodGirl
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I'm happy for you, and very proud you came out to tell us your life story. What a burden you were carrying on your shoulders all those long years! I hope our dear friend Gogeta is reading your words.
Congratulation! And truly enjoy the life, it's worth it. 
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| jole
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Congratulations!!!Anybody would have given up.All the best in the next steps.
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| Ujk
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Congratulations!!!
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| grkchicmd2b
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thank you for sharing your experience with us. i can assure you that you will be an amazing doctor because you showed your heart in this. for those who struggle, i believe are the ones who truly want it the most and for the right reasons. i am proud of you for being so strong and pulling through. i wish you great success and may God be with you. it was a red screen for me as well this morning, the feeling is indescribable.
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| kity
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heartiest congratulations to you...
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| mytime
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GoodGirl wrote:I'm happy for you, and very proud you came out to tell us your life story. What a burden you were carrying on your shoulders all those long years! I hope our dear friend Gogeta is reading your words. Congratulation! And truly enjoy the life, it's worth it.
Please don't ever do that to urself again for anything!!!!!! It's absolutely not worth the torture.........I sud know. Rt. now I probably feel the way u did ur courage gives me courage. Thank you so much!!!!!!!! Good luck and CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! Plz. write a little pm to GOGETA......he's such a good person and so not deserves to be in this misery.
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| po
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I hav 99 er stories but I think this is the most inspiring one,hats off to you v2k
dint let step1 get you,instead you got IT
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| dncosta
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Really inspiring to everyone, congratulations.
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| sg15
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congrats on passing your exam! your story is very inspiring.
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| ellen
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many congrats...............
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| ShweHope99.9998
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WOW BIG BIG BIG.......... CONGRATULATION!!!!!!!!
There should be better another word to say congratulation of your st 1.
What an inspiration, NEVER NEVER EVER GIVE UP , yes, never give up.
You prove it .
Also you deserve the best congratulation, celebration, praise , cause for your 3rd attempt, you have to wait longer that usual to get the red screen .
I think this thread should be pin , to encourage any one especially 1st time failure exam taker .
Congratulation v2k , congratulation . I am totally speechless .
Please tell all how to keep on trying, with believe in self , with good focus mentality .
Also why fail in other attempts & why you pass finally that you did right or wrong & even the praying , got support or not, study material, way of study all in facts by facts deatil in start with last attempt to 1st attempt of exm .
Yes, hats off to v2k , congratulation , hope you can find GGT to for come back to here pass or not .
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| ShweHope99.9998
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GGT is GOGETA , bro waiting for result , now we're waiting for him to be with all of us here .
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| v2k
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First of all thank you very much for every one for reading my story. It feels very much lighter today. I can finally share this with everyone. Thanks Hedieh..Feyza....step1sucks....googgirl..jolie...ujk...ShweHope99.9998....ellen...sg15....dncosta...po..mytime..kitty...grkchicmd2b......Thanks very much for you kind words
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| v2k
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Step1sucks.....Hang in there...there is definitely light around the corner....I too had failed earlier narrowly like you... The first suggestion i would give it to u is to do QUESTIONS....no matter what...and try to get a feeling of easiness doing them...I know especially revising stuff would be very similar and familiar for you because by now you muct have read the kaplan material many many times...like i did...You will just take the one or two days to comlete each subject by reading but honestly i guess it would not be doing that good to you. So try to get a change in the routine..Do questions and try to see any particular area you are missing and go back and read the topic....I know most of them would suggest to read the answers but for me reading the answers was ok but manytimes going back and supplementing stuff with my "regular" kaplan books was always very helpful...so once you have done this ...in the next reading you will obviously have something different and the whole concept will look intresting and saves you from the boredom of reading again and again. I could literally tell what was there in each page ..my notes on a page...and every detail...My biggest lesson or may be my weakness was somehow i could not apply the stuff to questions....Individually when i am discussing a topic with someone( who eventually got 99) i was doing better in the discussions but somehow on the question i was very bad....So please do questions....I would not be biased to any source but kaplan and usmleworld should be more than enough.....In my last preperation i first did UW and was shaterred with the score i was getting on them...but trust me UW is something almost on the lines of the real exam or on many ocassions exceeded the expectations...Since you are almost near the end and your exam is in august...try to do questions in the nights while you revise the subjects in the mornings...and do them cumulatively not subject wise....No i did not take any other NBME other than the first one in march. After the nbme 1 in march i studied 3 more months and took the exam in may end...Will let you know my score once i get it...goodluck and just hang in there...one thing that was soothing for me was not to think too much about this whole usmle residency etc..even though it was hard..i tried to somehow ignore and only took days incrementally....like i used to make up a tmetable ...so 15 dys to revise all subjects and used to focus on only that...Somehow ingnoring the real future and focsing short termly really helped me kept me sane....Hope ths helps you. good luck
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| v2k
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grkchicmd2b.......Thanks very much for your words...I know how releaving it is to see something in red in this perspective...I wish you get good score and good luck on your future steps and residency.
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| v2k
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Mytime.....I promise i would never do anything like this in future....and in fact would encourage people to come out and be open...Yes...i know our dear gogeta....He is very good person...I will definitely write a pm to him and hope he handles this well and does not let this be a downward spiral in life.
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