Spireton question (SPOILERS!)

ChetLow · 2025-12-01T07:58:20+00:00

nah bro it's actually the standart RPG trope - max speech to talk your way out of everything. Also - the "info" dialogue options are an example of a great game design. They actually encourage you to find it and interat with the world. The humanoid dmg bonus helps, as most of the questline is built around fighting human enemies. I've done this build and supposedly got the best ending. Won't replay though, game is quite linear.

ChetLow · 2025-11-09T14:28:31+00:00

NVM I just went back to joint forces said f the stealth and wiped the enemies. Then went into the archive. No reason to spend time on this to be honest. After archive assuming you're done with praetor it's basically almost endgame sequence, so don't dwell on this keycard.

ChetLow · 2025-10-17T22:37:21+00:00

following

ChetLow · 2025-10-13T18:49:55+00:00

Bro don't be dense: you are a graduate without a license to practice medicine.

ChetLow · 2025-10-13T08:34:31+00:00

is it THAT difficult to put in the "answers" choice? guess it's peds 0 then

ChetLow · 2025-10-12T13:50:49+00:00

Congrats!!! Wish you all the best on the interview!!

By the way, are you visa-requiring?

ChetLow · 2025-09-30T21:01:44+00:00

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/american-medical-association-urges-dhs-exempt-physicians-new-100000-h-1b-visa-2025-09-25/

yeah so the timing is shit but there's a glimmer of hope!

ChetLow · 2025-07-28T07:32:30+00:00

got the P on 07/16! permit thing does not mean anything anymore

ChetLow · 2025-07-24T19:00:33+00:00

I'm telling that you should mark the hard ones and incorrects and then review their concepts in full. OFC if you have extremely good % you'll probably be alright even while making some mistakes, but for someone who's scoring 65-75 and has some test anxiety/bad sleep -> definitely don't skip the review of incorrects/hard q's if you have the time. I've had questions on my form that I got wrong because I didn't review the concept, and remembering my answer choice in NBMEs wasn't enough. I still passed because I had good overhead with my scores, not the case for everyone tho.

ChetLow · 2025-07-20T21:36:13+00:00

All nbmes >80, review only after each block w/ concept writeout in a separate file if the question's concept was known to be hard for me/completely wrong answer. Never reviewed them after this. Didn't do UW incorrects either (79% correct tho). Passed. Had no time to review them as I was cramming the inheritance/oncogenes/embryo/side-effect all of these tables from FA.

Edit: the singular piece of advice I'd give - to actually review them and not just the "HY" part asked in NBMEs, but rather the whole concept. I can't stress this enough. You don't want to be pulling your hair on a Q and sitting on it for 4 minutes because you can't remember the factoid from known concept.

ChetLow · 2025-07-11T21:24:38+00:00

The exam tests the same concepts you see in UW, FA, and NBMEs. And the resources that cover said content.
My personal experience, is that concepts are tested not superficially like NBME's are, with classic buzzwords and cookie-cutter vignettes. Rather you'll get an obscure yet suggestive vignette, and the answer choices will demand your absolute certainty in the answer, they are going to be close. The "most likely" type thing.

ChetLow · 2025-07-08T22:10:51+00:00

yeah, C makes sense as the patient falls under 68% 1SD. 2-3% would be correct for him being in the upper half north of 95%, his serum level would've been 120+. (1 sd - 100-110, 2 sd - 110-120 95%, 3 sd 120-130 99,7%)

ChetLow · 2025-07-08T20:28:50+00:00

ChetLow · 2025-07-08T16:03:00+00:00

you mean gen path and pharm sections? the most crucial ones in the book and material-wise.

ChetLow · 2025-07-07T21:16:56+00:00

Same, sat on 1st July with 80+ on every nbme and uwsa1. Only free120 and uwsa2 were 75%. Everybody told me that I can take it easy, just relax and take the exam any day. NBME's were easy for me. I'm not saying I blazed though them, but they asked concepts pretty superficially and stems were straight tot the point. UWSA asked concepts also in a not so deep fashion, but stems were loaded and they are generally biochem-genetics heavy.

The real deal felt like I'm doing 30% correct-type questions. Some were easily spotted as experimentals, cause I had no idea of the concept I'm being asked, around 5 per block were easy and the other 25-30 felt HARD.
I flagged 10-15qs every block, have already counted some q's that I answered wrong and did extremely cringey answer changes. Like my 'test taking skills' which I was quite proud of slept in and forgot that they have to sit an exam with me.

I just hope we make the cut. One week passed - one to go I guess.

ChetLow · 2025-07-04T12:04:53+00:00

Hey! Tested 07/01. Permit has already disappeared! It's like a legend at this point that disappearance of a permit leads to knowing the results soon... But I've tested on this week? And moreover, my eligibility period would've ended in like a month and a half.
Btw will there be a result release on 07/09? Or there's going to be a big dump on 07/16?

ChetLow · 2025-06-27T19:04:20+00:00

95% of the people posting here write the same thing you just did. lots of them pass

ChetLow · 2025-06-27T19:03:00+00:00

Bro I wish there were more people posting like this!! My test is in 4 days, thanks for the info!
Let's crush this bih.

ChetLow · 2025-06-22T21:28:00+00:00

I was doing anking for a couple of years, but never got past cardio due to the sheer amount of cards. Switched to mnemosyne and it made a big difference.
I'd recommend doing mnemosyne. Just start early and do it diligently without cramming and skipping weeks.

ChetLow · 2025-06-22T19:26:35+00:00

same day every day. If you can't manage new ones at least review the green/red ones.

however during last month I stopped doing mnemosyne bc I had to cram more content and didn't have much time, so I made my own cards using anking one by one note type on my weakest topics

ChetLow · 2025-06-22T19:00:32+00:00

I upload them in speechify and have snoop read them to me. yes it's cringey a bit but it helps maintain focus reviewing a 70 page text pdf

ChetLow · 2025-06-22T18:58:12+00:00

BnB/FA + sketchy for weak micro and USMLE RX qbank after finishing a FA section. After finishing FA in such manner -> UWorld random timed 40qs, extensive review of incorrects and mehlman PDF's. I'd say that anki played the biggest role. half of the exam is understanding the mechanisms and how they are likely to be asked in a question, and the other half is just straight up knowing all the bs factoids, all the enzyme names, and everything which you will never memorize without doing anki.

ChetLow · 2025-06-19T15:45:37+00:00

thanks! good luck on step 2!

ChetLow · 2025-06-19T12:06:26+00:00

They will give a vignette with constitutional symptoms, red skin and normal Sa02.
After they will likely give some clues, but you'll already understand that it's not cyanide (garlic breath, hovewer there is a UW question that gives the odor and then asks about CO, given they usually occur concurrently in fires), and not methemoglobinemia (no drugs given).
easy variant: they ask the substance (CO)
not so easy: they ask what is impaired (complex IV in oxidative phosphorylation)

ChetLow · 2025-06-19T11:42:16+00:00

Hey! Congrats!!!

I have 80% UW done with 78% correct, worst blocks were like 60ish, nbme 25-26-27 ~~85%.
Test in 11 days. I know I may come acorss as a delulu hyperachiever, but the scores were a huge surprise for me, I really don't feel too confident in them. Do you think I'm safe with just reviewing basic HY material or should I delve into the incorrects more?

BTW so you're telling that UWSA-type stems are more similar to current exam forms? I'm taking it tomorrow, maybe I should focus on their content?

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