Miradautas Vras
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Just received! I couldn't sleep 2 nights straight before so can't blame anyone . NBME was 230 , so this is a bit disappointing , but still i will gladly accept it , considering how i gave the exam! almost dozing!. Exam was long and last 3 blocks were VERY lengthy, I had to guess and go in couple of questions. All in all, as everyone say, Kaplan and UW is enough. I went through Kaplan once and UW once , took notes and revised them. I ma doing MPH so didn;t have much time to read. 4 months with intermittent reading.
This is doable and I could have scored better with a couple of hours of sleep. PLEASE take a good sleep, or it'll certainly affect your score as exam is about speed of your thinking.
My step 1 was 88 and was a huge disaster due to server failure back in India.So this atleast puts me at a respected level, if not competitive.
Best of luck to everyone else.
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| nyimalay
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Congratulation!
That's a competitive score indeed.
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| kleovoulos
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congratulations!
server failure?......while you were taking it!!!
OMG! sounds
your scores are very good, anyway. what specialty are u interested in? if you don't mind I ask..
wish u best of luck!
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| Miradautas Vras
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Yeah exam started at 4 in afternoon. instead of 8 in morning due to server probs. had a fight with proctors as they didn't even try to acknowledge my prob. and once i started it again failed in 1st block but fortunately exam started with only one question lost.
Thanks for the compliments!
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| Miradautas Vras
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And add the damned sleep exhaustion to that! My biggest prob is pre exam insomnia. I wonder how i'll do step 3!
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| cathypitt
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Congratulations! May I ask when you took your exam?
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| inkspot
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congratulations buddy.
i remember your step 1 exp from a post before. that was aweful. Yeah im sure this is far better and you have great chance of matching , good luck
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PS: in which NBME did you get a 230?
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| Miradautas Vras
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inkspot NBME -2 560. That's pretty much predicitive.
Thanks all the people for compliments. I have CS on th 15 april.
Server prob wa with step 1 , that i gave in Ahmedabad India. I gave step 2 at Marietta [ Atlanta ] GA.
klveombus - I'd be applying for Medicine / neurology/surg. Let's see. I am on a student;s visa right now so I don't wanna take risk of prelim surg. I'll just squander some $$ on applying to feasible surg programs for Cat positions. Just a gamble. You don't know what happens.
Please ask me if anyone has any questions regarding exam.
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| euphoric
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Big congratulation! nice score.wish you all luck.BTW m also from india.
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| smalley
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congrats great work inspite of all the problems
wish you gl for ur future endeavours
 
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| drbin
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4 months prep and 1 reading of Kaplan and 93. its great....congrats on ur success...can u pls share more about ur preparation with us? when was ur step 1?
Good luck for CS
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| Miradautas Vras
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Step 1 was last year this time. Then I cleared GRE/Toefl etc and applied for MPH started in August, started reading in late october to november [ 1 month approx, as i had MPH exams in nov end and dec] Went back to India for q month in Dec end read on and off back home [ Very difficult when you are back home !] , came back around mid jan and started reading again. Started UW around mid Feb , went through it with a fine toothed comb!! Made lots of notes outta UW [ it's a separate book in itself]. Looked at the notes again, gave NBME 2 2 days before exam scored 560 , didn't sleep for 2 days [ Even Zolpidems don't work on me pre-exams] , sat through exam, slept through last 2 blocks.
Some questions were spot on [esp those where there are lots of options and 2 questions, they tend to be point blank] , some demanded thinking and some proved that Marquis De Sade's evil soul is still rampant in academic world.I think that the difference between what i got and what is left [ the 6 point gap to people's beloved 99] is the subtlety of thinking between those 50/50 choices which you can't do if you are perpetually sleep exhausted in USMLEs like me. My experience is not standard as I can't revise,that's my big flaw, I lack the patience , still I feel that at least for Step 2, going through UW twice/ doing more questions is more important than reading Kaplan twice thrice [ believe me , some of my pals went through Kaplan notes 4 goddamn times! both for step1 and 2!], because unlike step 1, where there is lots of stuff we don't go through as thoroughly as AMGs in our med schools, step 2 subjects are generally well taught and read and we know almost 80% material already.
The key here is to read the question FAST and discern between irritatingly similar looking choices. That comes with repeated questions. Noting where you missed the [ sometimes ridiculously simple ] point and taking care you don't do that again. Reading again and again might give you more bulk of memorized knowledge but the subtle discrimination needed in Step 2 will come with questions and making mistakes. This is the biggest difference from step 1 where difficult questions are about whether you know that obscure/difficult point or not. Here you already know it, game is if you can quickly analyze and pick the right point or not.
Hope that helped.
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| Tuscani
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very helpful thanks!!!
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| kleovoulos
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it did help! thank u veru much!
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| drbin
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great post, it really helps. Thanks
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great score , great post
GL
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CONGRATULATION
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