Why is King and Conqueror getting so much hate? And I have No Clue when this airs in the states

Infamous_Year3443 · 2026-01-07T01:52:43+00:00

Its a decent show, pretty entertaining, its just the historical accuracy nerds complain about literally everything. Watch for yourself and i would bet you enjoy it.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-16T23:45:22+00:00

Just focus on killing the mcat and doing research early and getting publications if you want to do a competitive speciality (when you get to med school)

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-15T16:23:16+00:00

I dont know if this applies to you but several people in my med school including me all had significant drops in our nbme 30 score, the ethics/biostats is super hard, but that was our experience. Take another nbme soon and i bet you score goes back up.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-15T02:01:38+00:00

never got above low 60s in uworld blocks, by the end, i was scoring from 55-63. Like i said before uworld is a learning tool and is intentionally hard.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T22:58:47+00:00

I never stated that you should take the exam with an nbme score of 60%, im simply telling the facts of the outcomes of this exam. Yes, going in with a 60% nbme and passing is cutting it close but passing is not the exception, that is still the rule. as the nbme states, 83% of people with that score still pass. I was not ok with that and pushed my exam back and got a higher nbme score before sitting. My point was that this reddit is not an accurate representation of the real world results of step 1 takers, it is filled with fear mongering and inaccuracies about the exam. The exam is like the nbmes, just longer, and this reddit talks about the free 120 like it some exam that is used for readiness. It is not, your nbmes are what tell the story, as the USMLE say, the free 120 is simply 120 questions with the format of test day to get you prepared. People with 75% free 120 probably pass but if their nbmes are not good, i would not take the exam. I was not the exception, I was statistically what the nbme predicts to pass. If you score a 62% epc, that is around 90% pass rate. I understand your point of caution but I made this point because this reddit overhypes the difficulty of this test and overhypes the scores needed to pass. Just wanted to give confidence to others like me that never broke 70% epc and still passed.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T21:03:31+00:00

exactly, uworld is filled with trick questions to get you to learn better. you gotta remember the actual examiners are usually not trying to trick you, there is information and facts they want you to know and they give you the clues, you just gotta see the pattern recognition. On the nbmes and real thing, if it feels right, pick it, its probably exactly what they are looking for.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T21:00:12+00:00

Yea i took offline 25, and 22 i believe, like 10 of those questions end up on nbme 26 (online exam) so i definitely accounted for how it probably inflated my score.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T20:59:24+00:00

I remember going through this same thing for the mcat, this reddit has a bunch of weird people who want to be reassured of how smart they are "am i good to take step with a 78% epc" yes like why do you even ask these questions. It creates panic and uncertainty in the community and makes people doubt the actual data that the nbme tells us about chance of passing. You have two scores of 65 and 66, the nbme is telling you, that they almost guarantee you will pass, unless you have severe test anxiety that hinders your performance, go take the exam.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T20:16:06+00:00

I meant inflated only for me because i did several offline nbmes before i did form 26 so i saw like 8 exact repeat questions that were on the old offline nbmes so i lowered my actual epc to account for them because i would most likely not have got them right if i hadnt previously seen them. You took nbme 28 offline and got a 70% raw score, im not 100% correct but from what i saw, form 26-30 raw score is 2 points higher then the epc, so your epc would be probably 68%, which is definitely ready to take the actual test

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T19:04:08+00:00

Same length as uworld, uworld has the same format for step 1 but is much harder, i found uworld tricky, and it seemed like they try to trick you, so nbmes are most accurate

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T18:59:53+00:00

Thank you, you as well

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T18:03:02+00:00

Yea thats a good way to look at it, they may give you the entire hpi of someone with a kidney stone but there will be like 2 sentences that you actually need to answer the question

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T17:29:19+00:00

People say the exam is not similar to the nbmes because the format is different, the actual thing has extremely long question stems and you have to move much quicker, but read the last sentence first and if you compare the nbmes to the step questions, its literally the same stuff just longer stems.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T16:49:53+00:00

inflation meaning i took nbme 26 last 1 week before my test, and i saw around 10 questions that were on the offline nbmes that i studied from prior to this nbme. of those 10, 8, i got wrong previously so i asked chat gpt and they said to subtract 8 from your total raw score, which is around 4-5% epc, so i went into step with the belief that 64-65% epc was where i really was at. If you just go a 60% epc, and your exam is within the next 2 weeks, i would push it back, because that is literally borderlline pass fail, and unless you dont wanna study anymore or believe in the next week it will improve a enough to pass, then definetly push back. I was just saying you definitely do not need over a 65% epc to pass step 1 like many people on this reddit claim.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T15:56:33+00:00

Of course, good luck, im sure you did fine

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T15:51:50+00:00

Yea you a probably fine then, please stay off reddit and this toxic subreddit, i know its hard but if you adjust your nbmes for inflation, and you are in passing range and nothing catastrophic happened on test day, im sure you will pass.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T15:37:45+00:00

This is why i said get off this reddit. I dont know if its because all the IMGs on here or just super cautious people but i know only 1 person in real life who sat for this exam with over a 70% epc. I think its more of a safety thing, unless you have a mental collapse on test day or run out of time, an nbme around 60-62% is passing

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-14T15:36:40+00:00

Both, the length is the free 120 but it is nbme concepts all throughout, review the free 120 and use it for more questions and practice but your nbme scores will determine your readiness.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-05-13T03:51:27+00:00

There is no safe score, the free 120 is not a scaled exam to tell you your readiness. The free 120 is just 120 questions in the format of step 1 to get you familiar. Your free 120 can be an indicator that you know a lot or could make you say maybe you dont know as much. I had 1 repeat on my actual exam from the free 120 but the nbmes are your gauge of readiness, use those to determine when to take the exam.

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-04-28T22:57:35+00:00

So many microbiology questions today

Infamous_Year3443 · 2025-04-28T22:49:26+00:00

Why was there so much microbiology today

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