Missionary Orthopod in the Making

So I’ve taken a couple of practice tests and the scores coming back are unbelievable to me, but I’m trusting that God actually makes these things reality. UsmleWorld offers 2 simulation tests (4 hours, 192 questions each) that are supposed to hopefully be harder than Step 1. I took the first one and they predicted that my score would be a 242. I was totally shocked by the number because it is vastly higher than I expected to get, especially since I felt like crap during the test because it was so hard. I thought that test was a fluke, so I took the free 150 questions that come straight from the NBME and I got 83%. If you plug that into an unofficial score calculator at http://www.medfriends.org/step1_estimator/, it estimated that my score would be a 245, which once again is vastly higher than I expected. I don’t know…if all this works out I will feel so stupid for fretting and lacking faith in what God can do.

Anyway, I take the test on Monday and right now it seems pretty stupid to study crazy hard since not much else will stick. I plan to go through the pictures and the high yield facts in the back of First Aid and kind of call it a day.

P.S.-interestingly enough, that site (medfriends.com) told me that if I used my MCAT score alone as a predictor of my Step 1 score, that my score would be a 226.