So my status changed to expired this AM and no link to reapply. Keeping my fingers crossed. Will post again tomorrow with detailed experience and score.
So I'm a PGY-4 in radiology and I took step 2 in march 2013, so its been so long since I practiced medicine relevant to step 3. Anyway, I studied for ~2mo- UW (bank and CCS- all 92 cases), MTB-3, UW-biostats. Nothing else.
UW average- timed, random, 98% completed qbank- overall 66% correct
UWSA 2w into studying: 200
Took it on July 10 and 13th
Day 1: Will echo everyone else that there were soooooo many biostats questions. Dug ads were gibberish from my quick skim of them. Several easy drug mechanism questions (although they were easy only in retrospect bc I missed some on the real test due to over analyzing the questions).
experience- freaked the f*** out because I didn't read a SINGLE drug ad- just marked answers randomly. Also, had to mark about 8-10 (total) additional biostats ques randomly bc ran out of time on each block. Non-biostats questions didn't seem too bad to me but I didn't know how to I did on those because definitely made stupid mistakes on some easy questions.
Constantly had mini panic attacks between day 1 and 2 because of the above mentioned fiasco.
Day 2: questions portion seemed easy. Lots of prognosis and preventative medicine. Remainder were easy diagnosis/next step questions.
CCS- terrible!!!!! mind you, I have not directly cared for a patient in over 2 years, nor put in orders so some of the orders are not second nature to me as they would be to an IM/FM/EM/peds doc. But, I do think that UW-CCS was good practice and all you need. I just panicked and overthought some of the cases. Only 4/12 cases ended early. I botched and I mean BOTCHED 4 additional cases and the remainder were somewhere in the middle. Definitely forgot to put in key labs/treatments for some cases. There were 2 cases (10min ones) that I ran out of out time-- like i had just put in initial orders and time ran out- it was unbelievable.
After day-2, I had a come to Jesus moment and prayed and stressed out like never before over the last 4 weeks because I was CONVINCED without a doubt that I had failed and only a higher power up there could possibly change that (still think thats what actually happened...lol)!
score came out on the 4th wednesday--- the trick is legit- my status changed to expired on tuesday with no link to reapply.
sooooooo..... today is when scores came out...... drumroll please..... wait for it......... PASSED! 224- I am thrilled, although thats a 30 points drop from my step 2 score, I couldn't be happier since I really thought I had failed.
my breakdown was that I did above borderline for day 1 and questions on day 2= both were equal (though i thought i did better on day 2). CCS was mostly above borderline with some asterisks in the right half of the borderline zone.
I hope this helps. Thanks to everyone else that have posted their experience in the past because it def helped and guided me for this God awful exam.