It seems that the 'all new step 2 ck Qbank' has over 80% of questions in this state of "We are still gathering performance data on this fresh question." I am wondering how Kaplan determines the average when not many people have done these questions. I think they are much harder than the original one. Has anyone finished them yet? Wondering what do you guys think of these questions?
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They're very hard. A lot harder for me than UW.
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yeah I was surprised at how difficult the new questions are. There is a very big difference between the new and old questions in terms of difficulty. I like the Step2 score estimator feature.
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I could never get the step 2 score estimator to work--did you do anything special for it?
Edit: Never mind: it seems to have shown up since I logged in last.
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THANK YOU! OMG I thought it was just me!!! It's the complete reverse of Step 1 for me. Where as on step 1 I would get 48-50% on U world and then get 70-80 on kaplan, now I'm getting 65-70 on Uworld and only about 48% on the new Kaplan!! This is freaking me out! After 3 years of med school it seems like you should have enough information to even guess and get at least 50%!!
I also had the same question of how these "averages" are coming into play on the new Kaplan when at least 95% of the questions say "we are still gathering information on this fresh question"
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can someone post an example of a superhard question here.........
without the explanation. just the question & answer choices.
without the explanation. just the question & answer choices.
You can go to
http://www.qbankchallenge.com/qbankchallenge/step2.jhtml
and try on qbankchallenge, I think these are all new questions, I think.
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hey domer, thanks for that advice.....did you think the new qbank was not reprsentative, not as good,k or what was teh difference exactly? i have a little under twomonths til step 2 and i aws thinking about starting to do a little bit of world daily. what do you think?
what do you all think about using the kaplan qbank for the shelf exams?
worth doing? or better to sitck to UW and master that material?
Does it have good 2nd-3rd order questions like UW had for Step 1?
Also, the explanations were incredible in UW for Step 1 --- how are they for the Step 2? how are Kaplan's ?
worth doing? or better to sitck to UW and master that material?
Does it have good 2nd-3rd order questions like UW had for Step 1?
Also, the explanations were incredible in UW for Step 1 --- how are they for the Step 2? how are Kaplan's ?
Good I came across this forum -- I was consistently getting only 50-60% and freaked out. UW (old questions) were reasonably ok was getting around 72-75... also -- kaplan's questions need a little bit more proof reading -- some questions were plain WRONG -- for example one questions in peds states the scenario of hypernatremic dehydration in a 5 month old and the "correct" answer choice is to give 8L of hypo osmotic fluid!! no weight correction - nothing! They prob. wanted to increase the difficulty since most ppl were finding it too easy. also, most of these questions have misleading information/inconsistent info. to the clinical scenario. that said I would still do these questions since they drive home certain key concepts much better!!!
good luck!
good luck!
