12-19-2007, 05:14 PM
Fist of all I want to say thank you very much all of you, forum! You were great help to me. I wish you all the best of luck and great scores!
To those of you who didn™t pass- please, please never give up. Dont cry, don™t feel dejected. You will pass, believe me it will happen. I know this now from my own experience. I failed first time, I had 61. I felt horrible, I was crying.I was crushed. It was had for me to deal with failure because it was first time when I had fail exam in my life.But I find courage to carry on and -thanks God- I passed.
Second time its always harder, especially when you know that you fail once
Any way,I will carry on my story.
Time preparation 8 months(part time, I have full time job, never took time off, had only 3 days off before exam)
Material:Kaplan notes, Goljan audio+ pathology notes(is™s must!! I loved it, it helped me a lot), UW twice-first time after I had read everything once, second- 1 month before exam.Second time I did all questions in tutor mode and did the wrong questions second time.
My mistakes: I didn™t read First aid just before the exam, like all you do. During exam I felt I should™ve done it. But it was late. I didn do NBME, so I didn™t know where I was standing.
Exam: My previous failure haunted me. It was horrible, I was frightened, I was shaky, I answered so many questions wrong. I was thinking about them during brakes and realising that I answered incorrectly.I had to calculate PPV, number needed to treat.I sucked not because I didn™t know but because I was nervous and couldn™t do math. I left after exam with bad felling, I didn™t think I would pass. I felt that questions were twisted, the way thay asked it. I was not happy with my performance at the time of my exam. But after all “ I did it. Its not the best score, but I needed just to clear this one.
Thanks God, its over and I passed, thank you , all of you for sharing your experience and posting questions, thank to my family for their support.
Believe in yourself, never give up and you will pass,
God bless and good luck to all of you.
To those of you who didn™t pass- please, please never give up. Dont cry, don™t feel dejected. You will pass, believe me it will happen. I know this now from my own experience. I failed first time, I had 61. I felt horrible, I was crying.I was crushed. It was had for me to deal with failure because it was first time when I had fail exam in my life.But I find courage to carry on and -thanks God- I passed.
Second time its always harder, especially when you know that you fail once
Any way,I will carry on my story.
Time preparation 8 months(part time, I have full time job, never took time off, had only 3 days off before exam)
Material:Kaplan notes, Goljan audio+ pathology notes(is™s must!! I loved it, it helped me a lot), UW twice-first time after I had read everything once, second- 1 month before exam.Second time I did all questions in tutor mode and did the wrong questions second time.
My mistakes: I didn™t read First aid just before the exam, like all you do. During exam I felt I should™ve done it. But it was late. I didn do NBME, so I didn™t know where I was standing.
Exam: My previous failure haunted me. It was horrible, I was frightened, I was shaky, I answered so many questions wrong. I was thinking about them during brakes and realising that I answered incorrectly.I had to calculate PPV, number needed to treat.I sucked not because I didn™t know but because I was nervous and couldn™t do math. I left after exam with bad felling, I didn™t think I would pass. I felt that questions were twisted, the way thay asked it. I was not happy with my performance at the time of my exam. But after all “ I did it. Its not the best score, but I needed just to clear this one.
Thanks God, its over and I passed, thank you , all of you for sharing your experience and posting questions, thank to my family for their support.
Believe in yourself, never give up and you will pass,
God bless and good luck to all of you.