1%ile...How the hell is that humanly possible? I mean, I heard about this rotation as being the one with an incredibly rough shelf at the end...But what the #$@*? I especially prepared for this one in light of its reputation as a real nail biter, and so I am left wondering...how on earth did I score that low??
My other shelfs were in the 30s and 70s respectively. I never have been a great student despite putting in what felt like Herculean efforts just to keep from failing. I wonder if there is some chance that the test was misgraded!!
It seems to me now like the best way I could imagine to come to peace with the damn thing would be to see the test and the scantron I filled out with the master key in front of me. Then I could believe it if I saw what I had actually done wrong. But as I sit here thinking of it now....It's just really hard to believe that after reading through Blue Prints and making handwritten notes on every stinking chapter, and working so hard to get this stuff down--much harder than any of the 2 prior rotations which I did pass...How did this ever happen!?
My only other question is, given the chance to retake the test in 2 months, (end of March), or wait until the end of July--what would you advise I do? If I wait too long, I fear I'll forget this stuff. Take the test too soon without adequate time for preparation, and I run the risk of failing the test again (and then having to repeat 8 weeks on the wards with that rotation again!!!)--or messing up the current rotation I'm on while passing the OB-GYN one...
So my 2 questions recapped are:
1)anyone hear of someone getting NBME scantrons with tests back so that they could go through it--or getting it regraded and finding they passed from an initially miserable failing score?
2)When do you think I should retake this thing and why?
3)If any of you out there have heard of someone (or you yourselve) did fail the OBGYN shelf, what/how did you prepare for the 2nd time around (books, time of test, anything else that is pertinent) and how did it turn out for you/them?
Thank you for taking the time to write, since any help/thoughts are greatly appreciated.
roady (winding...)