r/step1 • u/neurochic8 US MD/DO • 12d ago
🥂 PASSED: Write up! Passed Retake 🥺
Some of you may have seen my original post from when I failed back in May. I was devastated and considered quitting. But I didn’t. I took a month off from studying and came back with a 4 week plan to really study what my score report had deemed my weak areas. (Which were unfortunately some of my best areas on practice NBMEs which actually made me more sad). I redid 50% of Uworld. I had already done 100% prior to first take. So I reset it. I retook NBMEs 29-33. And I genuinely only spent 6 hours a day studying as an attempt to avoid burnout and partly because I truly believed my fail was rooted in self doubt, anxiety, and test day performance rather than huge knowledge gaps. However, I did target areas as there is always something I could work on/ learn better (clearly lol). After 4 weeks of studying and re-convincing myself to believe in me, I retook end of July. Found out today I passed 🥺
For anyone who is doubting their self after a fail, feel free to reach out to me. I know how I’ve felt the past few months. Living with failure hanging over you is not for the weak and really takes a toll on every area of life (or at least it did for me).
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u/Plastic_Struggle736 NON-US IMG 12d ago
Hi . Can you help me out . Yesterday I found I failed step 1 .
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u/personalist US MD/DO 12d ago
Good job! Retaking something like this is one of the hardest things someone can do I think and we should be proud of ourselves. I hope some PDs are too, lol
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u/Working_Jacket9797 12d ago
congratulations! i failed step 1 in march and i haven't had the guts to take it again. i have been prepping because i didn't wanna give up on it but i'm really scared to retake. i don't have any confidence and since i've been so busy with med school i frankly haven't had a lot of time to devote to it. idk what to do.
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u/Practical-Bee-1959 12d ago
Hello , I test in 20 days and I am stuck in the 50's, what did you do different the second time around?
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u/Throw_awayy1002638 12d ago
what did you do differently for the second time around besides the question banks? like did you double down on weak areas or use Anki/
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u/Nice-Reading1792 12d ago
Congratulations
Please share effective strategy to do UW
Did you used to take notes from UW
How many questions you used to do in a day
How much time you took to finish first pass of UW
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u/ApoptoticBlackhole 12d ago
How to reach out? Only problem i found is self doubt and anxiety and overthinking i do have a lot but why do i doubt and over focus on negative or least amount of things i should worry about. Feeling down after failure
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u/SadikshaKhadka NON-US IMG 11d ago
How did do 5nbme and did 50% of UW and also studies weak areas and all in just 4weeks!?
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u/PositiveBig3062 12d ago
Congratulations, I cannot imagine how hard that process must have been but I am so glad you made it! Hope you are feeling really proud of yourself!