PASSED - unfiltered writeup
Tested on 29/4
Prep phase- prepared for 6-7 months
I started my prep on June with BnB and sketchy micro .Finished it by end of July .
Then in September I bought uworld for 6 months - try doing atleast one block for day and reviewing along side it - i personally did it on tested mode right from beginning (depends on u) . I finally finished after uworld 100% -51% correct(don't worry about your correct percentages) in month of February.
Then I started doing nbmes in march-
Nbme 20 (first) - 50%
Lock in phase- 1 month duration
I was feeling hopeless after my score , I started using mehlman - every single pdf , watching yt audio banks whenever I got the chance (but I heard mehlman inflates your scores- BULLSHIT) then started giving nbmes again-
Nbme 21- 65%
Nbme 25-68%
26-68%
27-67%
28-68%
29-68%
30-72%
31-77%
32-69%
33-65%
Free 120 (gave this a month before exam a bit too early ik) - 67%
New format f120 2026 -75%
UWSA 1 - 57%(Personally don't care about your UWSA scores if they were bad)
UWSA 2 - 65%
This drop in 33 had me panicked very bad
Reviewed all of them thoroughly- personally I maintained separate book for it . Do all nbmes under testing conditions (I didn't do some of them under testing ,maybe the reason why my post exam period was hell)
Exam day-
I barely got any sleep on exam day , exam was at 8am and I woke up at 4 30 in morning but adrenaline did carry throughout
I took protein bars shakes for test
I personally felt all blocks were same in difficulty, flagged around 15-25 questions per block on average. I had two SOAP Style questions, rest of them were similar in length to free 120 and uworld stem length.
My break mangement - took 90sec gap at desk itself after first block then went on from 5mins breaks to 10 and 15 breaks , i still had 10mins left in my total break time
Post exam -
After I was done , I felt realllly numb , i was fine the first few days then I started recollecting questions I had recollected around 35 questions wrong out of 90 questions I could recall.
Post exam period was brutal , mentally torturing myself whenever I got the chance even cried a few times , really thought I failed, 2 weeks were hell
Result day-
I was shitting my pants , pulled Musashi s praying pose when I got the results pdf and opened it -suprise suprise -
THE RELIEVE I FELT AFTER SEEING I PASSED >>>. SIMPLY LOVELY
Ik there will be setbacks, everything doesn't go your way , theree will be dips there and there and thts OK , don't punish yourself for it.
So all in all , trust ur nbmes percentages 100% and my most useful source would be mehlman , never again really used bnb and sketchy after tht one moth in prep phase, also stopped using anki in prep phase
In the end, I would say read first aid , mehlman , do uworld and nbmes
U CAN DO THIS !!! TRUST YOUR PREP AND GET THE P!!!