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thank you step99, kalyan and SOS.
step99, i really wanted to go back in time, first time, thank you for making me look at myself, but may be this time, i should skip videos, because i already saw them, what do you think?
do you guys think, i will give same time of preparation like first time?
SOS, thank you so much for sharing your experience with me, i know i have set my goals too low, i exactly realized but didnt want to go trhough this again in last moment. and I also feel if i have done all uw, they will not predict me right anymore, when sometime i got 64% sencond time,(not always), i would feel that i was ready, but it was not online though. Give me some advice SOS. where do i start, now? did you start with books?
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| anshu001
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Don't worry AD.It's better than getting low marks.
There are many inspiring forum members who got 99 as our dear sos.
Be confident.work on your weaknesses.
You've got another chance and you can definitely give the best in you.
good luck
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| GoodGirl
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Really sorry to hear how your first exam ended, don't give up yet, there is always a 2nd chance, grab it, fight to win.
I guess you should learn how to manage the time, as you mentioned previously it played a major role in your exam. Peacefully think about the exam, what was hard, what went wrong, look at the report, find your weaknesses, and start improving.
wish you a very strong stamina.
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| antidepressant
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thank you anshu and GG. yes, i do need stamina, lots of it.
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| cutekity
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hi AD, sorry to hear bout step 1 !! dont lose hope dear, this is not the end of the world.....try to figure out what were your mistakes and where did you go wrong cuz everyone can judge themselves the best and only you know where you stand so dont get disheartened by this and take this experience as a learning experience and remember mistakes are only mistakes if not corrected !! so get ready again to tame the beast !
SOS, KG and everyone has given you the best advice and i will say that take some days off and get over with it once and all and then start with a fresh new goal,determination and you know i have seen so many ppl who have failed first time and scored in 90's the second time they took it ....but the only common thing in all of them was that they didnt give up on their dreams ......
good luck !!!
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| abc1234567
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''TWO men looked out of the prison bars, One saw the mud and one saw the stars ''
Rem passing with a 75 is worse than anything ..for good students failing is better compared to gettign a 75 caz atleats they can figure out wat went wrong and then hit the 90s and reach the stars .. iam sure u will do just that !!..
if u have already done usmle world so many times ..i dont think u have a problem with understanding questions ...
focus on the material and if u r confused about any concept dont go on to the next topic till u really undertsand it ...
if u did goljen for patho .. make sure this time its on your finger tips ...we underestimate it alot of times .. do 20 pages a day but do them well .. really well ..iam going to read more of your post and write again and try to help u as much as i can
REM. GOD GAVE U THIS CHANCE CAZ U CAN DO MUCH MUCH BETTER .. NOW ITs for u to prove it to yourself and everyone . we have faith in you ..
have faith in yourself and stay focused
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| abc1234567
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ok just read your post
read everything nicely and take nbme .. c wat u get ..as i said u dont understand something , spend more time on it or open another book till u get it .. pharm yes the first two chapters r imp but u got to do questions to know if u r applying it rite and inter-relating the stuff.. tht shudnt have been a problem as u did usmle world well ?!!
lissen to goljen audio for patho and do patho from goljen and kaplan if u did it from kaplan before atleats lissen to the audio ..
the rest of the subjects u can do from kaplan, upperlinmb and lower can done from highyield .
if u dont rem viro learn it really well and do questions after a few days not as soon as u finish and c if ur able to recall and once done with questions opne your book and c watever u r getting wrong .. this is a great way of doing micro and most importantly next time whne u go for the xam write the viro pnemonics before u start the exam when u get a question it will help u recall quickly as u r gonna have the classification infront of u caz of the pnemonic!!.. tht can be done with the pharm formulae and the physio formulae u find difficult o recall 
hope it helps
Good luck ..
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| antidepressant
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thank you cutekity, and abc123.
i wanted to take some days off, but i feel frustrated, i cant set my mind into anything. i just look at the tv, and dont enjoy anything, i can pass the time, looking and watching same old, everybody loves raymond, CSI ny, coldcases, my once favourite that 70s show. at the end, i feel pain. right now i am listening Goljan, and ironically, i know many stuff, and i feel sad. i thought my main problem was may be i dont understand things, but it could be more than that, if people understand, they can answer eventually, but in my case, i dont. may be my memory is also poor.
abc, i will apply your last paragraph advice, when i will finish listening to Goljan, thank you everyone for trying to inspire me again. its painful!
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| P4a99
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I'm very sorry to hear this. Best wishes for next time.
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| sleepy_student
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if your exam wasnt that bad, and you did well on UW questions as well as the nbme, maybe your problem was just time management during the test? i think you said you rushed through the last 3 blocks? and wasnt your score pretty close to passing?
so maybe your studying was fine, and if you hadnt run out of time during the exam you might have passed?
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| digant
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sorry to hear abt yr exam experience...
but friend...do u know u have got another chance to rock the step 1 with good score... so simply grab it.
i would say, just do analysis of your past, find out your areas of weakness...and just concentrate on them...
life is full of chances.. u have to only make good choice...
good luck..
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| abc1234567
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i agree with u antidepresent ..yes iam sure u cudnt recall things and thts wat got u so frustrated during the exam caz u knew it was from the book u had read but u cudnt recall and thts even worse than not knowing it atall !!!.. rem when u r studying frame questions in yur mind so tht u prepare your self for three step questions .. with tht u r just not learning the facts but also learning the tricky mind games tht the usmle play with us .. for instance u r doing reynaud's phenomenon now while studying it u shud try and gather all the infrmation u have regarding reynaud's and frame a question like :
a patient comes to u with the complaint tht his digital extremities become blue on exposure to cold and become normAL WHEN HE IS inside his house or in a warm place ,the thing that caused the rbcs have a high association with one of the following :
hep b
hep c
and watver
now c the question tht u framed in your mind tells u it is reynaud's first step ... second thing cryoglobulins cause rbcs to stick togther .. third thing cryoglobulins have a high association with hep c ... !!!
if u make your mind used to this kind of a study pattern it will get used to it and time will not be an issue but as u can c time is definitely an issue if u get stuck in the middle recalling or recalling one thing and not the other which is even more frustrating caz u know half anf not the other half ..
give your mind this training while studying so that during the exam its already doing something it is used to doing !!.. another thing with time try and read the last of your question first and then read the whole question for instance :
' there is a huge garden with all kinds of natural beauty , flowers, trees , butterflies .. there is a humming brid near the rose plant and a black and yellow butterfly near the lemon plant .from a distance u can c orange and lemon trees , few oranges have just fallen on the ground and child collecting them in his basket .
which color was the butterfly near the lemon tree ?
if u read the whole thing from the first word ..when u read the final line u will prolly go back to confirm the color .. (wasting time ) if u had read the the last line then u wud know wat ur looking for in the garden or the question  !! ...
this trick works for quite a few questions but not every single one of them but it does work and saves time !!!..trust me !
okay now going back to studying when u read try and give less gaps caz the lsser the gaps btw revisions of the same subject the more ur remembering ..
after lissening to goljen read it slowly, learn it .. rem. goljen is a little different and can take a while but its worth it (soem ppl read first and lissen do watevr suits u )..
do the rest from kaplan and take nbme then do systemic reviewing so tht u revise more subjects at a time .. STay focused and take the exam when your nbme tells u to and when u can recall not just one fact from a topic but the whole topic is on your finger tips ..
give your brain the knowledge base and u will be astonished with what genuis its going to produce for u .. U R NO LESS THAN ANYONE WITH A 99 ..it was all just miscalucalated ..
wish u all the best
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Hope it helpssssssssssss
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STay focused and take the exam when your nbme tells u to and when u can recall not just one fact from a topic but the whole topic is on your finger tips ..
tht line wasnt to scare u .. its just that if u have tht in mind u aim high and will def. have a grip on the bigger picture of everything ..
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| antidepressant
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thank you prayingfor99, sleepy, digant, abc for all your encouraging and nice words. abc, thank you for explaining me in details. i will listen goljan, but i dont have rapid review, i think i may use kaplan, and may be high yeild pathology of goljan. its great that nbme have newer forms, nbme 5 and 6. i havent heard about this newer forms difficulty, but when i will be done reading, i can try one of those. GL to you all.
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| paheli
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Hi, AD. I can't tell you how sorry I am to read this thread. I'm also really sorry for not posting here earlier, there's no excuse.
I can truly imagine how it must feel, that's why I want to tell you again what others before me have said, even better than me. We are here for and with you. It's strange for me to be writing this right now, coz my result is not out yet, not for another 3 weeks at least. But, having taken the test shows things in a new light.
Start off by putting things down on paper. Take one piece of paper, and list how you did things the first time. Take a fresh sheet and list again how you plan to do it FOR SUCCESS this time. Give yourself some time to get through the low, then rev up and speed on upward.
Let me tell you, YOU CAN CERTAINLY DO THIS.
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I can really feel your pain. I firmly believed you deserve much better. I know you know a lot of stuff. If I were you, I would practice all the questions you have done before (UW and Qbank). Repeat and repeat until you get an automatic answer on each one of them. Learn them cold, you eyes will be trained to pick on the important words in the questions, you mind will be trained to jump all the hoops the way USMLE wanted.
More importantly, get out of your sadness, depression and desperation. Life is tough, USMLE is not everything. There are so many important stuff in life. We all should be thankful. Have a peaceful mind. Enjoy everything you have. You can do it. We can do it.
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| antidepressant
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Thank you so much commit, for your support and advice. i am ok, i think, but sometime i dont feel like studying.
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| cutekity
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hey AD ...how are you doing dear ?? hopefully ur back on track and studying ....i will tell you one thing tht might inspire you a little bit ...i went to medical school somewhere else outside india and with me there were students who were 50 to 70 yrs old ....most of them told me tht they had grand daughters of my age ....and they had good job like nursing or pharm for yrs now they want to pursue this ....and i always thought tht what was the thing tht gives them motivation at this age to do something like tht cuz at tht age i wud want to relax and watch tv with my grand kids and not read but eventually i realized tht there is no age for pursuing ur dream but you neeed very strong will power and desire to do so !! so dont worry AD and dont ever give up !!!
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| antidepressant
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thank you cutekity, that is interesting, human being is strange! some people pursue their dream no matter what, even if its against the wind.
some days are good! thanks kity! i feel good!
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hi AD! i know what you are feeling, coz i was in your place almost a year ago.
im an immigrant here in the US, im here for almost two years now. before moving here, i've been reviewing( self review) for a year. but upon arriving here, the desire for me to pass the exam was not 100%. i was having second thoughts of doing it. you know all the hardships and difficulties that i have to undergo, coz we all know it, step 1 is just the beginning of it all. more are to come and much harder than the previous ones.i told myself that if I pass the exam, im destined to be a doctor here, but if not, ill change career then ( i could go on to nursing, coz the pay is so much better and less responsibilities and easier than becoming a doctor, hey no offense to those nurses okay, my sister is also a nurse so i know somehow)
when i arrived here, i gave myself another year to review before finally having the courage to apply. i applied jan 2007, i took my exam in june. after three weeks, i got my score. the passing score was 185, equivalent to 75. i got 180. i should be relieved that the answer to my question was simple. stop, and make a re-route. infact, that is what i told myself, if i pass the exam.
but of course, its easier said than done. i've been through a lot after i received my results. i cried, dont know for how long. i hide myself from the world, you know i somehow became anti-social. i always pick a fight with almost anyone. the thing is, i was always an achiever. in fact this is the first time that i failed. so its really hard for me to accept it. i started calling universities here, inquiring other courses i could take. i was about to give up on what i've worked hard for almost 10years becoming a doctor, for just 1 failure.
then i came across with this saying THE GREATEST GLORY IS NOT IN NEVER FAILING, BUT IN RISING EVERYTIME WE FALL.
it took me a while to realize that the difference between me and those who passed the exam is their desire to pass and believing that if things will not be successful, they will try again. but believed first that they will pass it because they want it so much.
so here i am( sound like a song, right) i applied again, and ill be taking my exam this may. i believed and desired that this is what i want. no matter what is the outcome, ill succeed. it won't be a bed of roses going there, but im ready to give a good fight(primarily with myself, coz i tend to lose confidence every now and then). not only that, i applied for step 2ck and cs too. so you see, i refuse to allow failures to overcome me.
hope this helps you somehow.
we can make things happen if we truly believe in it.
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