Step I QBank cumulative score v. USMLE score

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I only started doing Q-bank two days ago and am bored, so I decided to look up from the old thread how people ended up (total) and their score report. Here is the thread I go the info from:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/sho...&threadid=73046

185 70%
219 65%
219 65%
220 57%
233 66% 68-78% at the end
235 66% 70-75% at the end
245 70's%
246 75%
248 75%
250 79%
256 70%
256 74%
269 85%


Pretty decent correlation. Makes me want to stop doing the questions and study a lot more so I have a higher %.
 
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Dude, the link is dead. Thanks for the info though. Hopefully I will follow that trend and land near the 240 mark next Friday, although my knowledge of Anatomy and Embryo is supect at best. 😎
 
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The one score I didnt look at last night was the first one. 70% Q bank average with a 185? How sh**ty is that? If I get below the mean at this point I might jump off a hotel rooftop when I get back to Vegas.
 
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UCSFbound said:
The one score I didnt look at last night was the first one. 70% Q bank average with a 185? How sh**ty is that? If I get below the mean at this point I might jump off a hotel rooftop when I get back to Vegas.
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pick a nice hotel at least...
 
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imtiaz said:
it's really hard to get anywhere past one SD above the mean. a 250 is almost near impossible to get, you'd need to average like 42/50 correct per block or something like that.
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From my estimates of the people above, you need about a 35-40 out of 50.
 
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I thought that the national average is like 216-217 and 1 SD is like 18 points. Therefore a 235 is +1SD. 241 would be a SD of almost 25 points. I think thats way too much.
 
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Jalby said:
bump. Some people were wonding about this
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Any way to set up some kind of anonymous submission for this? I would love to have a sticky thread with QBANK - USMLE release - BSS scores - Step I, all posted anonymously.

When this is all said and done Id be more than happy to contribute my numbers for all this, I just dont know if Im going to want to post my final step I.
 
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That was a semi anonymous, in that they didn't know I was looking for that information when they posted it.

lol. Practice board question: What type of study was this??

A. Case Control
B. Clinical Trial
C. Cohort
D. Cross-Sectional
E. Meta Anaysis
 
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Follow up question:
What type of bias is most likely to scew the results?

A. Expectant Bias
B. Late-look Bias
C. Measurement Bias
D. Sampling Bias
E. Selection Bias
 
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I think what is most likely to happen is that people who got a high score posted on that thread, but I don't think the independant variable, Q-bank score, would affect whether a subject would post on the thread. The dependant variable is what is most likely to affect weather the subject reports their score. So the results would be a lot more accurate for the higher Qbank and Usmle scores because there would be a larger sample size.
 
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Jalby said:
That was a semi anonymous, in that they didn't know I was looking for that information when they posted it.

lol. Practice board question: What type of study was this??

A. Case Control
B. Clinical Trial
C. Cohort
D. Cross-Sectional
E. Meta Anaysis
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study as in the poll u did?

cross-sectional
 
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Jalby said:
Follow up question:
What type of bias is most likely to scew the results?

A. Expectant Bias
B. Late-look Bias
C. Measurement Bias
D. Sampling Bias
E. Selection Bias
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selection bias
 
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lotanna said:
study as in the poll u did?

cross-sectional
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I was looking for case control. I took the people with results (USMLE scores) and retrospectively looked at earlier experiences (Q-bank score)
 
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Released item score v USMLE. Not as much of a correlation from the data:

185 75%
219 80%
233 76%
245 72%
246 80%
248 85%
250 80%
256 85%
256 82%
269 91%
 
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Jalby said:
I was looking for case control. I took the people with results (USMLE scores) and retrospectively looked at earlier experiences (Q-bank score)
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LOL ok i was lookin at it more of a sampling of the population based on the poll, thats why i didnt really get it.

In that case it could be a retrospective cohort, cause u've a study population being SDNers who are similiar in that they are a bunch of geeks and smart ones :laugh:
 
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Jalby said:
Released item score v USMLE. Not as much of a correlation from the data:

185 75%
219 80%
233 76%
245 72%
246 80%
248 85%
250 80%
256 85%
256 82%
269 91%
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well those who got 240+ scored 82% or higher except for the 245 and 246 outliers 😀
 
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Pourqoui est-ce que la reine s'en fout?

Eh moi, Je m'en fous que cette reine s'en fout!


I can't wait to find out if there is a correlation between scores. Maybe next Wednesday?
 
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Another HUGE determinant in looking at correlative scores is WHEN the released items were taken. I took my 150 released items test back in September and got like an 84% or something. Obviously, if I had taken it several months later, the score would have been higher.

Finally, I think that in the end, the released items will correlate very poorly, as they were markedly easier than either the Step I or the NBME online tests (the latter two of which were obviously drawn from the same question pool).
 
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bigfrank said:
Another HUGE determinant in looking at correlative scores is WHEN the released items were taken. I took my 150 released items test back in September and got like an 84% or something. Obviously, if I had taken it several months later, the score would have been higher.

Finally, I think that in the end, the released items will correlate very poorly, as they were markedly easier than either the Step I or the NBME online tests (the latter two of which were obviously drawn from the same question pool).
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The released items are ridiculously easy. I got 94% on them two days before I took Step One. Do not use them as a gauge of Step One difficulty.
 
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Nothing directly correlates with how you will do on the step 1. All you can say with any accuracy is that there's a general TREND.
 
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I think what Stinger is trying to say is that the best predictor of your Step I score is.........................

YOUR STEP I SCORE

:laugh:
 
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DrDre' said:
Pourqoui est-ce que la reine s'en fout?

Eh moi, Je m'en fous que cette reine s'en fout!


I can't wait to find out if there is a correlation between scores. Maybe next Wednesday?
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Dr Dre salut! Qu'est-ce qui ce passe?
La reine s'en fous parce-que les gens ici m'enervent!!! :laugh:

Anyway thanks guys, I'm learning, I'll be more than prepared to take Step 1 in 2yrs, I guess gotta love SDN sometimes 😛
 
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After having taken the actual exam and doing QBank, released items, and one self assesment, I am going to have to agree that there is very little correlation between your performance on these things and the score you will receive on the actual exam. The conditions under which the actual exam is taken and its content, in my opinion wasn't simulated by anything that I did for practice. I guess my point is, correlations can only go so far, so don't get too arrogant or too depressed about any practice stuff that you do.

The Foxy One
 
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bigfrank said:
I think what Stinger is trying to say is that the best predictor of your Step I score is.........................

YOUR STEP I SCORE

:laugh:
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It just sucks we all have to wait so long for this "most accurate predictor" 🙂
 
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DrDre' said:
Il faut bien vouvoyer la belle reine- etes-vous bien de la nigerie? Bonne chance en ecole de medicine cette annee!
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A bon, merci!!
Oui je suis nigerianne mais j'ai habite a Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire aussi alors j'aime bien le francais , vive la francophonie! :laugh:
 
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Alors il ya des francais ici. Mois je suis habite en la suisse. Le grand jour pour moi est ce lundi. Jespere que Qbank et NBME est un bon predicteur de le USMLE.
 
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Aller les Bleus 😀
LMAO
@DrDre, vous etes noir americain? les rites de passage? a bon, moi j'aime l'histoire d'Afrique et la diaspora.
@Dukes, bon chance!!


Sorry guys, didnt mean to hijack the thread, but when can we expect to see the first 240+ scores coming in 👍
 
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