The board exam was today (2012).
I have a headache.
It seems like there is a portion of the test that is straightforward (if it were a US history test, then such question would be "who was the 2nd President of the US). Then there is a larger portion of impossible questions (using the US history analogy such question would be "who was the mayor of Turin, Italy on May 2, 1823?) I know I got a lot of those obscure questions wrong.
What should I do about the impossible questions? I am toast. The conferences in my residency were not too good. I've heard that some programs have excellent conferences and actually teach trivia and things related to those obscure questions. I am afraid that reading the books closely for a year until 2013 will not help enough.
Ugh.
Of the 250 questions, how many wrong can you get and still pass? 40? I think if you get 70 wrong, you are dead meat. The really sharp people, the 99th percentile, might get 6-7 wrong. Based on the OKAP and comparing another person's score and the list of topics you got wrong, I think that if you miss 10 questions more, you are a bit more than 20 percentile lower. If so 33 questions wrong x 2 = 66 percentile less (33 percentile is about the cut off to pass) so I figure you can get 39-40 (33 + 6 or 7=39-40) questions wrong, that is it.