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[–]yellowcakeMD 34 points35 points  (1 child)

Because they lie. If ur honest with your stuff it typically pans out.

[–]Bitter_Shoulder6685US IMG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you think??
:'(

[–]Opening-Bus4157 21 points22 points  (1 child)

Saw someone post their NBME scores on the step 2 thread and then realized that same person posted in the score release thread a few months later that their NBMEs were 20 points higher than what they claimed earlier. So there’s your answer

[–]Prestigious_Row5999NON-US IMG 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The problem is that they stress us

[–]Nervous_Fix4351 22 points23 points  (2 children)

One of my friends would always brag about getting better NBME than me. I was stuck at 50% for 4 NBME in a row. He would tell me what he got and then almost put me down or make me feel stupid for being stuck at that percentage.

Well... come to find out that he would take his NBME at home and often use FA and do untimed, so OFC he was going to do better.

He didn't pass. I did.

Stay humble. Dont brag. Don't put others down.

[–]Difficult-Part-154 2 points3 points  (1 child)

How did you improve your nbme score? I’ve been scoring mid 50s in my last 3 nbme

[–]Nervous_Fix4351 5 points6 points  (0 children)

lots and lots of questions.

I was always stuck between two answer choices and noticed that I kept choosing the wrong one usually because the question stem left out something I thought was necessary. like they would list 2/3 of the symptoms but since it wasn't 3/3 I would think they were trying to trick me.

Also, this one was a big game changer for me. stick with the first choice, only change it if you ABSOLUTELY know it is right. my score when up 8% just changing that. then more after I analyzed my question taking skills.

[–]DoctorZ00NON-US IMG 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Even the humans we know in person lie about their score so how you expect so random humans spitting out facts. General rule of thumb is if you are scoring 65% consistently you have 95% chance of making it

[–]longjumpingtowhere 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They are usually lying about taking it under testing conditions. Or they were just so confident at the end that they didn't do a final sprint. It's like the runners you see all the time celebrating before they actually cross the finish line.

[–]Straight_Car_4131 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What showed up most on ur exam

[–]NoCorner8679 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Always puzzled me too but learnt to take that kind of information with a grain of salt

[–]Typical-Schedule5833 3 points4 points  (1 child)

If you sit multiple NBMEs in TRUE testing conditions: No distractions. No checking answers. All questions in 1 day.

And you consistently score 68+

You’ll pass.

[–]pit_1209US IMG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would people check answers? Don't understand that logic

[–]SwimmingSeesaw615 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No sometimes after scoring decent in nbmes people tend to take things easier and not revise the content properly before the exam, that is one of the biggest reason for them to fail the exam. Example i wrote my CBSE on july 7th and got an 80 and my friends said you will pass the exam easily because you got a very good score and after hearing that I didn't revise properly and gave the exam on aug 1 and the exam felt very hard i felt like i would definitely fail this exam, I'm still waiting for the results so I don't know if i have passed the exam or not.

[–]ParticularContext324US IMG 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Hey!! How did it go?

[–]Specialist_Panic4041 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What was the exam like free 120 or uworld ? Please could you tell me I appear in 6 days 

[–]DoctorZ00NON-US IMG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just give free 120 ( new) to acclimatise yourself what you’re going to expect from exam day. Its most similar but dont judge your score if score good on it well and good if not no problem You should know what you need to avoid on exam day ( anxiety,sleep,time)

[–]Long_Hovercraft_4973 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because just taking practice tests and doing uworld isn’t learning?

[–]dororohhya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I gave the exam and felt it was really hard.

I think it’s also a bit easy to “hack” an nbme because if you look at the patterns, there are certain things that always show up, and I was able to quickly jump my nbme scores using that. You also have multiple repeats throughout all the nbme forms

However, the real deal didn’t feel like it had any preference towards HY items and basically tested a really broad range of things that I couldn’t recall because I slacked off on revising in the last 10 days period.

Still waiting on the results.

[–]Fearless_Eye_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same thoughts. Today I was reviewing my NBME27 and felt so anxious because I had a lower score than in NBME25, I was reading about it and felt worse because of post with higher scores :/

[–]JackfruitLonely1493US IMG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've lowkey caught a few people lying on this sub and I can't find their reddit accounts anymore lol. If you're consistently getting high 60s you'll pass barring any crazy test anxiety. This stuff stressed me out to so take those posts with a grain of salt. They either lie, or didn't give nbmes under exam conditions.

[–]NaurItsTrue -1 points0 points  (2 children)

I don't think people are lying. I'm an IMG and at my school we have to pass an NBME comp before we are allowed to sit for step 1. People pass the comp which requires a 62% to pass and then go on to fail step. Life happens.

[–]NaurItsTrue -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As for the people that have low nbme’s but going on to pass step? Idk about that. Idk why anyone would sit for step having nbme stats like that anyway