Post-exam Anxiety (tested last week)

🤧 Rant

I took Step 1 last week and left the test center feeling horrible. I flagged about 10–15 questions for 4 blocks and 15–20 questions for 3 blocks. After the exam, I remembered around 35 of the flagged questions and looked them up. Turns out I got about 25 of them wrong. A third of those were dumb mistakes (in the last couple blocks) that I would’ve gotten right on NBMEs. Now I keep thinking I probably got half the test right, and for the other half, I honestly have no idea how I did. I’ve been trying not to think about it, but I keep randomly picturing the word “Fail” in my mind. The waiting is brutal.

Posted Nov 5, 2025, 11:42 PM UTC

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