USMLE - Official 2015 Step 2 CK Experiences and Scores Thread

Just took it. It was tough. Very tough. Many weird questions and by the end of it I felt defeated. My first block felt the the hardest, probably because I was nervous and just sat there trying to make sure I get every question correct, which resulted in me almost running out of time when I used to easily finish a Uworld block with 10-12mins to spare.

Took a break after the first block and decided to steamroll through it instead of worrying about what my scores going to come out to be. 2nd block on-wards it got better and I was finishing blocks with about 6 to 8 mins in which I'd go back to the 3 to 4 questions I'd specifically mark which I felt required extra time.

Overall I had ATLEAST 5 questions that were insanely long(required scrolling down a bit) BUT did not even require reading more than just the answers and the last line. A lot of questions had a lot of irrelevant content aimed to wasting time, one question with a picture even employed a cheap trick where the contrast of the picture was so bad that the relatively easy lesion looked almost invisible. There were around 5 to 7 questions that were so easy that I felt I was missing something. Plenty of step 1 style basic science questions on some metabolic disorders, inherited disorders and immunodeficiency disorders. Plenty of easy psych. 1 abstract which I failed to completely figure out (did it at the end of the block). Lots of easy biostats, no calculations, study designs, errors, interpretations of results. A rare side effect of a drug of abuse which I happened to know not because its in FA or any other book but because I read it on wiki or someplace years ago and it just stuck. Missed an easy two step question that I'm still kicking myself about but oh well. All blocks were 44 questions except for the one with the drug ad which was 42.

Obviously I feel horrible at the moment and I'm trying really hard to trust my uswa score.

Want to thank Phloston for his recent guide and I totally agree with him, the clinical mastery questions are a must. I did all except the psychiatry questions during the last week. Had I not tuned to the nbme style of questions, my day would have been way worse.

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USMLE - Official 2015 Step 2 CK Experiences and Scores Thread