264-Exam Writeup......

Hey Everyone, Finally I got my result Few Days Back and had been thinking of Writing a Post about my Experience.

UWORLD FIRST PASS: 70%

NBME 9:236 (3 Months out)

NBME:10 241 (2 Months)

During this time I was doing UW Marked/Incorrects and as You see my score wasn't improving and with these NBMES , I realized My issue was the "WRONG APPROACH" not Knowledge Gap, So I changed my strategy, Stopped doing UW Full stop. I took Screenshots of My NBME incorrects and dissected Each Mcq that what was I thinking? Why did I get it wrong and realized that UW gave me the habit of OVERTHINKING EACH MCQ and looking for diagnosis which were out of context to the Question .NBME Doesn't TRICK you like UW does. NBMES usually test for the most common conditions and in NBMEs, look for the horses not zebras.....

So After NBME 10, I changed my Approach and made NBME Pattern my Study Guide and adapted the NBME approach and started doing CMS Forms which are written by NBME and helped styled my approach.I almost did 35 CMS forms in total and Started integrating Amboss . I would suggest just DO NOT Randomly do any Q bank, just know your WEAK AREAS and Use Q Bank to strengthen that.I used to create a Customized Q bank on Amboss according to the topics I got wrong on my recent NBME and that literally Helped me a lot...

NBME 11:257 (1.5 months out)

(See How my score improved in 15 days with the right approach)

NBME 12: 251 (40 days out) Found this NBME really Hard..

UWSA 1: 256 (30 days out)

NBME 13: 260 (22 days out )

UWSA 2: 264 (17 days out)

NBME 14: 259 (10 days out)

NBME 15: 266 (5 days out)

New Free 120: 86% (2 days out)

Amboss Predicted score: 262 (257-271)

Actual Score: 264

Apart from Doing UW,CMS forms and Amboss for Weak areas, I Listened to few of the DIP in last 10 days and did HY Amboss Topics which everyone talks about on reddit and there was a post on reddit where someone mentioned about few HY amboss Library links on Quality and Safety,Palliative Care.I Can't find that post again but If someone knows Please do these topics from Amboss, they are literally GOLD for Exam,UW alone Isn't Enough and Best of Luck for the Exam.Let me know If anyone needs any help.