‎Mohamed El-Saeed El-Helw‎ to USMLE Step 2 CK Study Group

Hi Guys,

I want to share my experience regarding my CK exam

Medical school - Mansoura school of medicine, Egypt

Test center: Lexington, Kentucky

Test day - 27th August

Score: 241

No assessments at all!
No 120 free Questions!

UW 3 times (3000Q) from scratch!

One and half weeks before exam, I was trying to read and digest EVERY Question and Answer in UW

Cardiology Qs all in one day
Obs/Gyna all in one day
Infection Q all in 1/2 day, etc....
Psychiatry Qs all in 3 hours , last thing i did in last night of my exam in hotel.

Two nights before exam, I read again all ECG, All charts, All tables, respiration and endocrine ( my weakness in UW ), summarize all biostat in piece of paper to review very quick before arriving to prometric.

I subscribed UWSA1 but didn’t do it till 45 minutes before exam when I just did 10 questions and clicked on end block
( 4 wrong Questions out of 10 ) I was so stressed at that time but I was preparing my stuff to go for exam and leave the hotel

I wanted to do my exam anyway, I decided NOT to postpone it!!

Self assessments are lying at least for me- I don’t trust them especially after my step one exam which I did 4 years ago.

Two hours After my exam, I realized that I got 20 wrong questions in exam so I couldn’t decide if I should be happy or not!

Best wishes!

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