From a Constellation to a Constellation

Izhan Hamza,  CMH LMC Final year Exam date: 6th February------ score 263 Alhumdilliah! Brief stats: UW first pass : 88% ,   UW 2nd pass 97%  USMLErx: don’t remember the percentage Assessments: UWSA 1 260 ( 3 months out) NBME 13 260 ( 2.5 months out) NBME 20  246 ( made a huge blunder of not reading the instructions prior to starting the online NBME. I assumed the interface would be the same as Uworld , I was wrong xD, had trouble striking out options) NBME 23 248 (tried to change my strategy of solving questions). Most people advised me to read the last line of the stem first, have a look at the options and then proceed to reading the questions. However, this didn’t really work for me, time finished in some of the blocks and I had to leave some questions unanswered. For reference I usually had 15 mins to spare at the end of each block with my old strategy. Take away message would be that try not to make any major changes to how you approach questions tow...