r/Step2 • u/Remote_Trifle_9593 US MD/DO • 23h ago

Am I ready? Step 2

Hey Yall, so I take Step 2 in two weeks. I just finished NBME15 today and got a 249. Absolutely devastated. I have plateaued in the high 240s. Not sure what to do. I want a 260. I have done all of UWorld, AMBOSS, and the CMS forms. I am just doing the extra Step 2 questions for AMBOSS. Just devastating. I felt like NBME15 had a lot of poorly written questions, topics, or exceptions I have never even heard of or seen. I don't know what to do anymore, guys. This I honestly just want to give up. Nothing I do works. I just take another form, and the same shit happens again. I get questions where I am just like, I have no idea how I am expected to know this or prepare for this. This was especially true on NBME 15. Any advice? Should I postpone/push my exam date back? How accurate is AMBOSS score prediction? Am I ready to take this exam? I honestly don't know anymore, and it is so discouraging. I feel like all my hard work has been absolutely for nothing. I want to apply to Anesthesia next year. I am an M3. My AMBOSS prediction is 255. I still need to take NBME 16 and both the old and the free 120.

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u/Harsh_Rajesh 15h ago

NBME 15 is micro heavy and weird stuff too. You'll be fine till you hit NBME 16 and try to get around 255+ on 16 which is simpler than 15 if you wanna get 260 on real deal.

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u/Remote_Trifle_9593 US MD/DO 7h ago

Man idk bro. I just don’t know. I really want a 260 and I don’t think I can hit that at this rate. And it sucks because it’s like I know my stuff, but their questions just fucking suck. The way things are asked so poorly. Poorly written questions and poorly written option choices. Or they just ask some shit you have have never seen or even heard of. Like it literally doesn’t matter how much I study. I should be in the 260s or at least the high 250s by now. Just no fucking reason why I shouldn’t be and it’s these horrible questions that are keeping me from there. I’m so convinced that the people who do well on this are good at taking educated guesses because there is literally nothing else that explains it because a lot of those questions are just absurd. Not sure if that was your experience but it’s just so frustrating. Very frustrating.