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Or just a waste of money/time? I am bout to buy the qbank and am not sure if I should shell out the extra dough?
I personally felt that the questions from the assessment were actually easier than the qbank questions...
Does anyone else feel some of the UWorld questions are ticky-tacky?
Curiously strong bad or curiously strong good.😕I would describe UWorld as more "altoids"-y... curiously strong.
Yes Kaplan is good for facts and minutae and Uworld for 2-3 step reasoning. I reccomend doing both so oyu have the complete essence of step 1.I can't tell if ppl are referring to the UWorld Self Assessments (UWSA) vs the UWorld Qbank...
Regarding the UWSA - I took one of them some time ago and took NBME 6 today...I think the UWSA is very generous (it seems they're trying to bandaid the ego injuries they inflict with their Qbank). I bought two of them but at this point I probably won't be taking the second one- if I take another practice test it will be another NBME instead.
PS: I just got the Kaplan Qbank a few days back cus I ran out of behavioral and biostat questions on UWorld and I have to say that it is closer to the NBMEs than UWorld is. It is a bit more recall also than World is and I'm guessing we need practice with both recall and multistep thinking. I'll just keep doing both on alternate days till test day with my emphasis on UWorld still.
I say it is high yield. I was scoring about 60% on Kaplan and am now doing UWorld and scoring 80+ percent. I think kaplan helped me achieve this score. But who really knows what is high yield, it differs for every test!do you guys really recommend doing kaplan? I heard thats it tests on really minute stuff thats low yield. Im about 500 questions away from finishing world and Im trying to decide whether to redo world or get kaplan. Thanks
I say it is high yield. I was scoring about 60% on Kaplan and am now doing UWorld and scoring 80+ percent. I think kaplan helped me achieve this score. But who really knows what is high yield, it differs for every test!
This is an excellent question, and I'm eagerly awaiting peoples' responses.Do you think just reading the "educational objective is ok" due to lack of time.
Is reading the lengthy explanation useful? I can't remember all that or annotate that in, I tried and it took me an hour for 10 questions!
For some the educational objective is for a quick recap of what the emphasizing concept is about. I've seen others use the objective only because of saving time. Those explanations are surely long for some questions! If you REALLY think you understood the question concept and why the answer is so, then skipping the explanations and going to the objective is enough.cliff huxtable said:Do you think just reading the "educational objective is ok" due to lack of time.
Is reading the lengthy explanation useful? I can't remember all that or annotate that in, I tried and it took me an hour for 10 questions!This is an excellent question, and I'm eagerly awaiting peoples' responses.
I haven't found a way to speed that up. If I did, I wouldn't know how much I would actually comprehend or remember.
I feel like I'm in no-man's land with my scoring. All of this overestimation talk is driving me crazy.
I took UWSA2 and got a high 240s. Took the free 150 and got an 86%.
I'm afraid to take another NBME, as it could be disheartening a little if I do worse.
Any comments?