Are UWSA questions taken from the uworld qbank or are they unique?

[Leonidis I]

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According to phloston they are taken from the qbank -
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...rld-the-uwsas-my-brief-thoughts-on-it.958502/

"The UWSAs are identical to UWorld QBank. Now let me make a point very clear: the UWorld QBank is only 2153 questions (or 2154 given that they just added a question yesterday). This is already fairly truncated relative to the 3000 in USMLE Rx and the 2994 in Kaplan (Kaplan QBank technically is 2200, but they don't charge you extra for their diagnostic test or two full-length exams), so the fact that UWorld charges extra for the biostats package and the UWSAs is a malfeasance quite frankly. They take advantage of us as consumers because they know everyone needs their product. FA, for instance, could charge $100 per new copy of their book, and guaranteed everyone would still buy it, because we all know we need it. The difference is that the FA authors just aren't as avaricious; they're error-prone instead (ahem, 30-page errata, ahem)."


But according to the uworld website they are unique -
https://www.usmleworld.com/Step1/step1_exam.aspx

• Four blocks of questions (46 questions per block) in timed mode
• Completely different set of questions (not taken from Qbank) written based on most realistic exam content

 

[Cmaster]

The question in UWSA are unique and are not taken from the uworld qbank. UWSA 1 is harder than UWSA 2

 

[nguyen1025]

Unique questions, similar stressed topics. I felt UWSA 2 was harder than UWSA 1 fwiw.