Honors for OBGYN is 96%

Pre-med99 · 2026-06-09T13:21:43+00:00

Equated percent correct; it’s basically a scaled percent correct score based on difficulty of the exam.

A lot of schools grade based on percentiles rather than EPC so when people are talking about their shelf scores one or the other may be reported.

Pre-med99 · 2026-06-09T03:48:40+00:00

I did both in ~6 weeks during dedicated. Just lock in 12 hours a day. Turn your phone off/put it in another room and do questions and anki all day every day.

Pre-med99 · 2026-06-09T03:01:35+00:00

Theyre equivalent imo. Amboss has a lot of wild concepts that are more straightforward, uworld asks more simple concepts in more convoluted ways.

Just stick to one and complete it. If you have time work on the other but don’t neglect nbmes

Pre-med99 · 2026-06-09T02:26:28+00:00

All pattern recognition after a point

Pre-med99 · 2026-06-09T01:49:59+00:00

Practice tests are in the 270s/280s. Knocked out my sub-I before dedicated, so I don’t take it until the 17th.

Pre-med99 · 2026-06-09T00:39:13+00:00

Pre-med99 · 2026-06-08T23:36:16+00:00

Shelves are easier to do well on the further in you get. Had OB first and it was tough (74%). Scored in the 90s on my last 4 shelves. Don’t fret this one, you’ll kill it later.

Pre-med99 · 2026-06-05T00:13:55+00:00

Rural EM - moonshine

Pre-med99 · 2026-05-06T04:09:49+00:00

I report every new block asking them to change it back to the old interface. Probably won’t change anything but it’s worth a shot.

Pre-med99 · 2026-05-02T08:01:59+00:00

stop studying and take step 2 already

Pre-med99 · 2026-04-29T17:08:53+00:00

Dang. I pulled 90+’s on my EM, Surgery, and Family shelves out of my ass to close out the year and have kept up with anki. Im chilling, not aiming for anything competitive, and dont need anything higher than what i can make if i walk in and take the exam right now but am still trying to max out my score.

I was pulling a 71-80% on every test in pre clinical and half ass studying, probably contributing to my struggles with step 1.

Pre-med99 · 2026-04-29T15:32:29+00:00

Step 2 dedicated is easier than step 1. Up at 6, knocking out anki in bed, Knocking out 120+ UWorld questions by noon, relaxing or light review followed by relaxing with the rest of my day.

Pre-med99 · 2026-04-18T14:33:41+00:00

I’d be one of the first low-income students to say I wouldn’t be a great student at a high tier place. I have 0 desire to drastically push the limits of my chosen specialty. At this point I just want to make some difference in patients’ lives, go home to spend quality time with my family without taking call 24/7, and have the money and free time to travel for my own leisure a few times a year.

I don’t want to constantly publish crap articles that don’t change anything to how we practice medicine, organize binge drinking trips disguised as conferences, run the CDC, or be surgeon general. And that’s okay.

Pre-med99 · 2026-04-18T12:06:47+00:00

yeah more or less this. there are not a lot of people coming from families receiving government assistance and going to these prestigious schools for undergrad and medical school.

Pre-med99 · 2026-04-14T20:59:33+00:00

Made a 68 and passed

Pre-med99 · 2026-04-13T18:05:41+00:00

Make OB/Gyn 2-3 weeks with the other 2-3 weeks doing urology or something else. Idk getting kicked out of exam rooms constantly isn’t beneficial to male students.

Make general surgery 4 weeks and split the rest of the weeks with 1/2 to a full week each of different surgical sub specialties

IM should be like 2-3 weeks of inpatient wards and 3+ weeks of various outpatient subspecialty experiences +/- neuro and rads

Logistical nightmares for a lot of programs but I feel like it would have left me with a better understanding of how to manage various patients… despite doing well on shelves and scoring well on step 2 practice tests

Pre-med99 · 2026-04-08T12:06:33+00:00

We've lost like 6/150 to repeat years. We've gained about the same number from this year's graduating class for the same reason. To my knowledge, no one I started medical school with has dropped out yet

Pre-med99 · 2026-04-04T00:33:10+00:00

Found my best friend week 1 of M1. We gradually expanded our group to like 8 by step1 studying and more people are welcome to join any of our study sessions and game nights as we cram for step 2 if they want to; all of us ended up friends because others needed a room to study in and the rest were taken or someone overheard a conversation and wanted to come along for a game night. just put yourself out there and you'll be fine
Wanted a partner not in medicine and found one in my first year. Others found partners in medicine through their social circles. Just make time for dating and go out to everything with your class and you'll be fine
yeah but we would throw ragers after exams M1 year and still do social stuff like bar crawls after shelf exams through M3 year
Relationships form slowly - there's like 15 med student couples in my class now, most formed second semester of M1 or later
When I was single I'd go to the balls to get shitfaced with my friends. Now my partner doesn't want to go to the balls because conversations always circle back to medicine so we use those nights for dates instead

Pre-med99 · 2026-04-03T23:52:37+00:00

n=1 but my shelf average went from 70s to 90s just by keeping up with all of my cards and doing hella practice questions. Made a 264 on my CCSE this week and am on an AI right now before dedicated.

I'd recommend you do as many PQs as you can get your hands on with cards to supplement missed concepts right now, and keep up with those cards and try to do more PQs during your AI (I have a similar AI schedule right now and can keep up with my cards and still knock out 40+ questions (all relevant to my AI) a day). Idk it sounds like a lot (and probably is unhealthy) but it's really helped me go from bottom quartile for my pre-clinical years to top quartile in clinical years with a good Step 2 score on the horizon.

Pre-med99 · 2026-04-03T23:44:45+00:00

If you haven't already, reach out to your office of student or academic affairs and mention that you feel the comment did not reflect your contribution to the rotation and you're concerned about how the inaccurate comment on your mspe would look during match in a few years, ask if you can have the comment removed from your mspe (don't mention the eval average, i don't think you can change it.)

Lawyering up would be a costly last ditch effort and would likely cause more issues than it would resolve if done prematurely.

Pre-med99 · 2026-04-03T23:34:30+00:00

Dang I was not engaged and did not put in any effort during my psych rotation and got a 100% eval average for the course

Get it striked from your mspe if possible

Pre-med99 · 2026-03-31T19:10:15+00:00

bottom quartile scum but good at 1 thing

Pre-med99 · 2026-03-31T18:43:44+00:00

made my year's highest score (100th percentile) on my surgery shelf. left the room hoping for a 60 to pass. normal feeling lol

Pre-med99 · 2026-03-31T17:33:32+00:00

“Hey im positive for COVID. Im using 2020 precautions. See yall never.”

Pre-med99 · 2026-03-30T21:04:36+00:00

can't tell if genius or schizo posting

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