The USMLE, Step 2

I wrote my USMLE Step 2 last Friday.
What a day!
Nine hours and 300 timed clinical MCQ questions. Some of them were very smart and the options well chosen they made me want to take my hat off for the question writer. Some of them, however, were so smart they made me wanna punch’em on the nose. After six months of preparation, I got out of the testing center feeling I was doomed as hell and I should pack up to Riyadh where I belong. Never in my life had I gone out of an exam not being sure of more than 50 percent of the answers. I passed the Saudi and the Canadian medical exams. They were a joke compared to the USMLE. Who ever passes the US medical exams and earns the American Medical Board in something will have my full respect and a lot of admiration.
What’s unique about the USMLE among all other exams in any field is that it doesn’t expect you to be a smart, hard working, passionately driven, focused and persistent student. The USMLE expects to be above all that, a real doctor, one who can be calm enough to work in totally new situations under time pressure and take smart decisions or at least an educated and safe guess.
My only solace is that everyone i know shares that feeling right after the test. Some got super grades. Some flunked the exam.
We'll see what heppens.