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Hi paheli....saw u aftr quite some time !! so u r studying in full swing ..good..
as for me....i spent one mnth without studies..and indecisions....life really gets tough sometimes....wen its difficult to decide what to do !!
anway..as of now....i started studying for CK..not sure wen i will take it.
u keep up the hard work and it will definitely pay off !! i still feel bad sometimes reg the lack of confidence i suffered from. which affected my exam.
just keep on doing UW and learn ur mistakes ....just the way u helped me out while i ws doing that.. 
u will do grt !!
take care.
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| bioguy
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mine, March last week, definitely. No other choice. Struggling to read now.
Good luck with your prep.
Don't compare yourself with others. That will distract you from assessing yourself without prejudice. Everyone has their own unique capabilities. You will have to go deeper in analysing how you make the mistakes. You will have to give it time and think, how your thought process has resulted in choosing the wrong answers. Is it memory failure or is it failure of thought process, or is it wrong concepts ingrained in your knowledge bank. Just like Askdoc's analysis!!!! I know I am vague  , as always!
Some great philospher said - there is no state of being virtuous, eliminate the state of being non-virtuous, thats all. applying that here - eliminate the process of making mistakes - everything will fall in its place.
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| keepgoing
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hi paheli,my dear friend,i can co-relate with what u feeling about uw scores,u know what,i asked such one gentleman(99er) who adviced me to see mean score of last 8-10 blocks timed unused,that wud be ur real prediction as all who did say 80s they got on average might have gone thru their low 30s 40s in begining but if not than,dont worry about ruining avg score as,it shud not matter,but see how u advancing/progressing taking mean of last few tests.i dont know how it is reliable but it sounds more practical and realistic..so just keep going on..
happy studying!
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| milee99
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hi paheli
i started doing kaplan qbank
and did some 500 q's
scored 61% overall..sometimes 66 and sometimes 50 % in various blocks
and got depressed , did not study anything for some 10 days , then decided to take nbme
scored 560/232 on nbme -1
so even i don't know what to make of the scores on qbank
also , i remember my colleague who got 99 doing the qbank while studying for step 1
and she was saying that one has to struggle to get above 30/50 in a kaplan qbank block
so again , maybe if she did it , we can do it too
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Well look at it this way Most of the ppl whose post you have read and have saying that they got 80+ in UW look into their background. who are they and when they have given the test. If they are fresh students undoubtedly they will score good on UW but if a bit older ones they mioght not score good on UW or Kqbank but get a 99 on the real exam. When i started doing UW i scored like 44-45 in the first test after a couple of test when i got used to the pattern of their asking questions i started scoring higher but still my highest went to 75% and that also was only in Endo, Respi and Renal. Because i had spent so much time on these topics any question in relation to these was a piece of cake and the same thing got translated on to my real score report. Mind you i have never done rote learning and only used my concepts. Then i asked around and found out that its relative to when you are doing your Qbank. Like most seniors here they did Kqbank in their 2nd read and UW on their third. So while they got 75+ on UW they got 55=65 on KQbank which is fairly understandable cos in your 2nd read you are still corelating most of the concepts together.
So in my view dont get worried about your UW scores. Just do questions in Timed and Unused mode cos you need to be prepared for the real day and then compare your level of improvement find out your weak areas and then hone in on them. And most of all try to mix up the subjects so that you are able to jump from one subject to another like the real exam.
Use UW as a prep tool and NBME as the predictor.
Goodluck and keep us informed and if you need to discuss anything just ask.
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| paheli
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Yeah, I think that is so true what you said, nnl, coz it depends on which read you do the questions on. It's obvious who will be expectedly scoring more if you compare someone who's on 2nd read with someone on their 3rd. BIG difference. These are the differences that pure numbers so not reveal. [Wonder what kind of bias that is.... ]
My gripe was that given the numbers on the Exam Score thread, the genius folks seem to have out-of-reach UW scores. I guess I must try harder to ignore those numbers from now on. Earlier on, they served as inspiration and a target to aim for. Now, they are beginning to become scary. I think now's not the time to pay too much attention to them. [I also sometimes wonder if some of those figures are inflated after receiving the MLE score....] Whatever, but I promise to stick to my true score when I eventually post on there. [even if my numbers seem anorexic/malnourished in comparison with those plump, jolly 70s and 80s!!] 
So,conclusion is: Depends where you stand. And even if your numbers are not encouraging, who says you can't out-do them on Test Day? It's been known to happen before.
Thanks for the input, guys: bioguy, keepgoing, milee. Your words have boosted me.
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Mydream, thanks for your kind words. I'll keep in mind what you said about confidence. It gets overlooked, but it's so important. Hey btw, are your scores out yet? When's the party??
bioguy, yeah, I do agree with what you say just that I had forgotten it. Ultimately, it boils down to yourself. And, yeah, that philosopher was right, he sounds Chinese though! [They always hide big mesages behind simple words - the guy who isn't ready for them just reads them and moves on, not even realizing there was a deeper message within! ] Anyway, I've gone off on a tangent here. So, March, huh! Trust me, you have AMPLE time, you CAN sooo do it!!
keepgoing, nice to read your post on my journal again. You've been gone too long!! Nice that you're back!
milee, I understand what you mean by saying thay you couldn't read after discouraging scores in Qbank. But, let's agree that we'll NEVER do that again, ok? The idea of getting wrongs and low scores is to read more and learn more and improve. And, we do the EXACT OPPOSITE by getting demoralized and NOT reading!! Not good!! Let's keep trudging on.That's the road to our dream score! We can do it!
Wishing ALL of my pals here a good week ahead, let's make progress!!
P.S. Has anyone seen shwe and acintya around? Seems like ages since I last saw them.
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| acintya
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Helllooooo Paheli thanks for thinking about me I feel like I am this ghost who is around the forum but does not seem to make ANY progress with studying... AT ALL....I can only hope and pray for some things to fall in place
You know what, I used to wonder about people's UW scores too....and then I decided that it actually depends on how they did it as well....what if one did a few blocks in tutor mode, subject wise, after they just studied that subject, so they remember it very well, and got a high score in those blocks....it WOULD plump up their cumulative right??
It takes strong concepts and also test taking skills to think across the board while doing a block/ several blocks in a row to see how prepared you are....bottom line....Unless one actually simulates the exam setting, it is very hard to correlate the scores.
Its good that you are going to ignore other people's scores, and just depend on your own confidence....cos who knows...you can OUTSHINE your own expectations on D Day
Good luck buddy......soon you will get done with this beast and move on in life.....
PS: pray that I do too
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Tum log itna paresaan kayun hotay ho? Just concentrate on getting better...and dekhna tum saab sai aachay scores laogay.
GL, NNL,PHAL, AC.
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| Mydream
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Party aftr ur exams are over !!!!!!!!!!
my score is 92..i had reported in journal that very day.. i donno whthr u saw my Ex Exp thrd....if not, u can read it once.
yes..dont worry reg the scores in UW so much..wen u will take nbme..u will see u getting very high score there..or try with the offline ones..and chek for urself !! do follow what u had advised me bt i cudnt manage to make it...do ALL NBME s !!
Stay well and study hard !! aftr that only u can party hard !!
take care.
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Hey, mydream, that's fantastic news! So proud of you! Really sorry, I have not seen your other post but I'm in no way less happy for you!!! Excellent job!
Ac, thank you so much for your post. It's made me feel better....a bit. Coz I think I'm losing my edge, and I'm seriously fatigued over Step 1 now. It's taking more and more effort to make, no force myself to read, to do UW these days. That's not normal, is it, esp close to the real thing? I feel I'm forgetting so much more these days, and I don't know how to fix it. I have this mind-spinning amount of material to go over. Yet to do some UW, Neuroanat, NBME..........meanwhile I've forgotten Cell-Mol Bio, Immuno that I'd read earlier, and these are regularly my low-scoring areas on UW though I had them down pat earlier. I know the holes I need to plug, but don't have enough hands or time to plug them all. I'm terrified. I guess I sound like a wuss right now, all weak and loser-like, but this exam is the truest monster on this planet. Forget about doing well, I'm wondering if I can clear the hurdle in the first place.  I'll just look at Lord Krishna's image, and try and get some strength from there... P.S. I don't think you'll want me to pray for you........my prayers don't get answered much these days.
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Thanks, mytime, but am wondering if your faith in me is a bit misplaced right now.
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| Mydream
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Heyyyyy...........now i will scold you !!!!!!!!!
why r u talking like this ??????? it IS normal !! Trust me !! when the exam gets closer..i too tend to forget things.....it happens to many ppl !!!! its becoz of the stress....but wen u will do qs u wud be able to answer....initially it happened to me too...that wen i ws doing UW...things were getting clearer....and i ws getting the BIG picture.then during the last days....i started making mistakes even on the qs that i did right initially !! its weird....and i used to wonder abt the explntn.....oh..did i know this..how come i forgot..etc !!
But that u will overcome by the revison which is soo imp !! pls go on revising and revising as much as u can and read the explanations of UW. that gives a very good review.
wen's ur exam ??I can understand ur stress .. but pls try to be confident !! and STOP thinking negatively !! U WILL do well !! Have faith in urself and God...prayers will be answered dear !!
Wish u loads of luck and strength !! Keep studying !!
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Paheli whens ur exam??i am feeling the same as ur ...just hoping to pass..
but i'm sure things will turn out well if we don't loose ourself n don't loose our confidence ..keep working hard it will definitely pay off
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Awww Paheli......what you are going through is typical exam jitters, of course combined with the fatigue of it all. I keep thinking of this animation I saw someplace....a man running while the ground behind him is caving in......as I study more, I am forgetting what I started with in the first place!!
I think that you are on the right track.....keep plodding on....cos you are almost there! The sheer volume of material is bound to make it difficult to know AND remember it ALL, so just keep up the labor, keep reviewing the material, and you will be fine.
And NO, you don't sound like a wuss, cos you are so brave to keep up the fight!! I have kinda given up for sometime now 
Oh and prayers will ALWAYS be answered (we just don't know when it might happen) cos they get answered when the time is best for us! What we as humans cannot achieve, it would take Krishna just a blink of His Eye!! So keep up the efforts, keep up the praying dear
Just typing this makes me want to study....so off I go....
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Hi PHL , I am here , also miss u alot , all of u so I had post long again today , out of my Wed regular post day .
So seems like I will post on Wed as long then Fri or Sunday agian as my schedule permit .
Here is link incase ur short of tim eto go there & read , it including almost all our st 1 frds currently here .
http://www.prep4usmle.com/forum/thread/48505/48/
Relax, stress, anxious take su no where , it is quality of study , not quantiyties , we all kn , so study with open relax mind to get study efficiently, even the Qs .
When is ur D day ? , GL
As Ron .. u can get worry , but as harry's frds b brave , with support of Hmn girl .
GL GL GL happy success study to us , all
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Phal kaisa hai tu????????? HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGS............
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your EYES off your goal." from Aashi's PS. And goal beta is not this exam.So close ur eyes and see urself as the doctor u are here in US. Whatever it's u want to do. not even the resisdency. U'll feel urself calming down then say Thank you to God and open ur eyes and get back to the problem at hand.
Thereby, magnifying not ur problem but ur goal thru' GOD!
If there's anything I cud do lemme know.
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Very well said MT.......(thanks frm my side too )!!
hey paheli..come and see..we all are here for u..praying for u.... follow what she said....its soo true !!
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Ohhhh, you guys!!
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Ohhhh, you guys!!
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