Many of you asked me to write a post on my exam day experience. So here it is. Like many of the test takers, I was also nervous a few days before the exam. But I kind of knew I am ready for this. You will also get that feeling too. I mean after passing 3 to 4 NBMEs with a good score your confidence level becomes sky high. So yes you will be little nervous but that’s normal. Now, the day before the exam I stopped studying. I just prayed, prepared small snacks, bought chocolates and water bottles. I also kept a habit of waking up at 5 AM from three weeks before the exam since I had to take the exam in the morning. On the day of the exam I drove to the prometric center 45 minutes early. They did not even open the prometric center. So, I just stood outside and chit chat with my brother. As soon as they opened the gate, I went inside and did the paper works and received the key for the locker, where I kept all my belongings. I then went inside the scanning room, where they took my finger print and scanned my body with a hand scanner. Pretty simple and went fast, since they already had my finger print from before (I took the practice exam before). You are not allowed to take anything inside the testing room not even water. So make sure you drink enough water before you walk into the testing room.

Once you are done with the scanning and fingerprint, they will give you a dry eraser, 2 markers, and 2 plastic boards to write anything during the exam. They also made me write my CIN number on top of the board because you will need that to login into the computer. Now a lady walked me into the testing room and assigned me a computer. Before I started with anything, I prayed and wrote down few biostatistics formula on the plastic board but I never used it though. Now, I entered my CIN number on the computer and the testing screen started and took me to the tutorial session. During the tutorial session I only checked for the headphone, other then that I skipped for the most part.