Passed (listed as certified Saturday and received score report Mon evening)
Background;
Exam delayed by two years as first year starting new fellowship and had busy schedule and second year had to cancel as I realized studying on a maternity leave was just not happening
Step 1: 230s
Step 2: 230s
Step 3: 210s
ITEs - never tried and was on overnight rotations for two of them, I think they were between 40-60th percentiles through the three years.
Current year; Chief fellow - had a relatively light first two months of the academic year but expecting baby #2
Study Prep;
- no studying during residency
- Started MKSAP 16 books about 2 months out from exam (read x 1 except for general medicine, heme/onc and critical care)
- Scored ~65-70% first time around MKSAP Qbank and annotated questions I got wrong in BB3
- Uworld 98% completed scored about 65% first time around, did one or two blocks of wrong questions and got ~80% second time around
- Had long studying days, about 8-10 hours a day or as long as my back would allow (books ONLY no laptop or phone to distract) Then another two hours after dinner doing questions. Luckily grandma was available to babysit the little one
- Crammed my BB3 during the week before exam
Anyway I left the exam feeling like "okay, I know I got dumb questions wrong but it can't be enough to fail". Like things that I knew but didn't recall in that moment of selecting an answer. These sorts of questions definitely showed up under my "medical knowledge points".
Bottom Line - I am pro- Uworld as I feel it has trained my mind to think the way the exam writers expect you too even though the questions may be a tad tougher. The explanations are gold and coupled with MKSAP BB I think is enough to pass comfortably.
P.S My husband took the ABIM the same day as well and passed by just doing MKSAP 17 in 3 months for whatever it's worth
Goodluck to all!