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<p>What exactly do you mean, Miami? I am hoping I am getting your statement all wrong…</p>
<p>MyOpinion,
I am using my D’s language. She feels stressed around some people, that’s all. Many time she cannot avoid to be around them. She has friends that are like her personality-wise, down to earth. D. does not like to feel stressed, it does not help. As one example, she would NOT listen to audio of lecture during her gym workout, she would go to gym to be away, but some are using every moment to study and it affects thier ways of communicating with others around them. My D. simply cannot do that and she will never ever behave in a way that would be discouraging to others around her.<br>
It is not right vs. wrong, it is about personality differences, people are simply different and not everybody meant to be with anybody else. D. was observing this during her visits, she withdrew from couple schools saying that she did not belong there. It also might be more applicable to girls. I never heard anything like this from her big brother, boys simply do not care so much, not as sensitive, tolerating much more.</p>
<p>Update. Test taken. After test text. “Done. Felt like a practice test. Didn’t completely freak out. Couldn’t pull up some answers. Could see them in my mind, just couldn’t get there.” Phone call after a 'rita or 3. “I think I did OK. Felt like it was about the same as ‘some acronym for a test’ 12. Maybe a little easier. I did as well as I could and it’s done. Yeah.” </p>
<p>Now, home for a quick re-charge and then off to “knife and fork” junior doctor survival week.</p>
<p>^Congrats, curm! it is over! Yey, yey…</p>
<p>Curm, Congrats!</p>
<p>Wow, DD has just begun to study with her test in a month, weird to think about people already being done.</p>
<p>The local prometric office which administers the test ended up having a huge SNAFU, a large group of kids had their test dates & locations cancelled. How can they know that one month from now they will be down one computer? Very strange and now kids scheduled to take the exams in Seattle are heading to Portland, Spokane, Canada, etc. All hours away. DD found a test date in Hawaii and wanted to put in for that one!</p>
<p>Apparently the med school is going to try to get the kids reimbursed for travel costs, but they all have to go out of pocket up front. It’s very bizarre as only one kid per slot was cancelled and not in order of their priority registration. Some one who had a lower priority than you might still be in their original test time while you had to change yours.</p>
<p>Hopefully the school has some pull for the reimbursement as they all have to take 3-6 hours out of their study day immediately before the test to get to their new test location which is quite disconcerting to the students. But since Prometric has a monopoly on the testing, they may not care about customer service or satisfaction!</p>
<p>Something screwy is going on with my kid’s test date in the “release of scores” area. She said that her date will get their scores later than other dates. I dunno. She just said it will be 8 weeks.</p>
<p>Same for me for Step 2. There’s like a one-month busy period from May-June, or maybe even July. My Step 1 score was scheduled to take 6-8 weeks last year, but I think it took 5 weeks. Other times of the year, it’s usually about 3 weeks.</p>
<p>I think that sounds right. lol. The kid said she can already feel “it” (the knowledge) slipping away.</p>
<p>Congrats, Curm! My school seems to be a bit different as far as the timing for the exam. As it turns out, we don’t take it until the middle of junior year. By then, we will have 1.5 years of basic sciences and 1 full year of clinical rotations. We get a full 4-5 weeks off to study prior to the test, which I guess it’s crucial for reviewing all the basic sciences material from the first year!</p>
<p>Yeah, MyO. That does sound different. My D said “I just realized I have just taken the last basic science test I will ever take.” She also said she wanted to be buried with her self-annotated First Aid. 
She says it is awesome. She has always created her own study aids and she said that even though she didn’t find First-Aid very well-written, she thought her annotated version was an incredible help.</p>
<p>My school finishes basic sciences in the middle of second year (December), so we take Step 1 pretty early - I took my exam in early February. Turned out really well, but studying was not a fun time, haha.</p>
<p>I didn’t do any review while classes were going on, but as soon as they ended I did: First Aid (read through it twice, effectively before and after UWorld), UWorld Qbank (went through it just once, annotating into FA), and listened to Goljan audio (twice, annotating into FA). Didn’t have enough time to read Goljan’s review book or do the UWorld practice exams, so didn’t have a baseline of what score to expect.</p>
<p>I got a 255, so that made me pretty happy. It was surprising to me (and higher than what I was shooting for) but apparently consistent with what I’d been scoring on the Qbank questions, from what friends have said. The actual exam is much more straightforward than UWorld - not necessarily easier, but simpler and more direct questioning. There were a 5-6 questions I talked myself out of the right answers and was kicking myself for in the couple weeks after the test, but the rest of stuff I was unsure about, I have no idea what I could’ve studied to get those right. Some very random topics.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone! My three week wait for my score was strangely not as bad as the wait for the MCAT score release, probably because I was just relieved to be done.</p>
<p>255 is fantastic. Not even on her radar. She feels she needs a 230, wants a 237, and would be delirious if she hit a 240. We shall see.</p>
<p>Delay in USMLE Step 1 Score Reporting
Posted: March 26, 2012 </p>
<p>Most score reporting of Step 1 results occurs within four weeks of testing. However, because of necessary modifications to the test item pool, there will be a delay in reporting for some examinees testing beginning in mid-May 2012. The target date for reporting Step 1 scores for most examinees testing from mid-May through late June will be Wednesday, July 11, 2012.</p>
<p>My friend who is an MD mentioned funny episode of her and her D. (currently MS4) studying the same when D. was to take Step 1. My friend said that it is almost funny that most MS’s do not realize that they have to take exam every 10 years for re-certification.<br>
This comment is in reragd to taking last exam. I guess, in medical world you have to prove your eligibility over and over, it does not ever end.</p>
<p>Last “basic science” exam.
Not last exam. That does end and, for mine, it has ended. Mine is well aware of the testing requirements.</p>
<p>Steeler,</p>
<p>Did you take any of the NBMEs? I took 7 at the start 2 weeks ago when i started and am about a month out and took 12 this past weekend and would love to hear that they are good markers because I have been doing way better than I thought I would.</p>
<p>Curmudgeon, my expectations (both before and after the test) were the same way, although I was more pessimistic in the days leading up to it.</p>
<p>Brown, I didn’t take any practice exams. My percentage correct on UWorld blocks were all I had as a reference for how I was doing.</p>
<p>So what was your percentage? I know I could get more and better info on this from SDN but I can’t stand being on that website, especially when I’m this deep into studying.</p>
<p>Reading thru, the schedule is different from school to school. D. has choices when to take Step 1. They are done with MS2 at the beginning of March and she can take Step 1 in few weeks after, or she can take it any time during MS3.</p>