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I just failed my second ever examination (the first being the same examination).
It means that I won't be a doctor in August.
Beyond that I'm not really sure what it means, but there's a possibility that it will mean the end of a 9 year relationship, and a bunch of other stuff that's shit.
Not least of which is spending another year studying- which I cannot afford financially, mentally or physically.
I have spent 10 years working towards this and the exam in question is a practical assessment of clinical skills. I failed because despite getting 70% both times I didn't pass 3 stations of 12.
The second sitting I broke down in the middle of the exam, having piled the pressure on myself for the previous two months (as it meant the above).
There is no chance of appeal, and honestly I don't think I can continue.
The level of shitness has reached fully fucking shit. I'm devastated, not least because I worked my fucking ass off, have never been even slightly close to failing anything in the entirety of medical school, and most of all no doctor who I've ever worked with could conceive of my failing this exam the first, let alone the second time.
I'm broken. A complete wreck.