Asking for a friend, has the Step 1 changed where you can choose which topics will be higher yield?

[Knicks]

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This person is actually asking for his wife, and I'm asking you.

The wife heard something about test-takers being able to choose which topics will be higher yield on the real exam.

Is there any truth to this?

Thanks

 

[Whatyousay]

There are certainly questions that you know will be on the exam (heart sounds, antiobiotics, etc.), but the quantity and distribution of these questions is hard to predict. I got slammed by brain stem cross-sections and pelvic anatomy questions that weren't in FA on my exam (even though anatomy as a whole is traditionally considered "low yield" for Step 1).

If the question is "Are there questions that we can reliably predict to be on almost every exam?" then yes, there are certain topics that tend to be everyone's exam.
If the question is "Can I just focus on certain high yield topics in FA/Uworld/Firecracker/whatever and skip everything else?" then no. Heart sounds may show up on 90%+ of tests, but there may only be 1 or 2 out of 300+ questions.

 

[J ROD]

This person is actually asking for his wife, and I'm asking you.

The wife heard something about test-takers being able to choose which topics will be higher yield on the real exam.

Is there any truth to this?

Thanks

no

 

[Knicks]

thanks for the replies

 

[danse]

This person is actually asking for his wife, and I'm asking you.

The wife heard something about test-takers being able to choose which topics will be higher yield on the real exam.

Is there any truth to this?

Thanks

There wrong. Everyone knows that the average has gone up too over 230, when that used two be a good score. You will loose out if your following they're advice blindly. You might think that I have a few screws lose to argue against these veterans, but than it would be you're loss. I must follow my principals and tell you the truth. Test-prep has come a long way - read the Prep+Experience thread, and if your following the excellent advice offered their, rather then accepting random advice, you're friend would be in excellent shape. Is you're friend, by any chance, a Principle?

 

[thehundredthone]

This person is actually asking for his wife, and I'm asking you.

The wife heard something about test-takers being able to choose which topics will be higher yield on the real exam.

Is there any truth to this?

Thanks

I don't think such a thing is going to happen anytime soon, the test is a minimum standard measure, cherry picking topics to meet a minimum standard could be dangerous. Then again, what if it turned out to to be the classic bait and switch - you choose your higher yield topics and those are the ones that don't show up at all?

 

[dyspareunia]

I don't think such a thing is going to happen anytime soon, the test is a minimum standard measure, cherry picking topics to meet a minimum standard could be dangerous. Then again, what if it turned out to to be the classic bait and switch - you choose your higher yield topics and those are the ones that don't show up at all?

Then I pick behavioral sciences, pharm, neuroanatomy, and everything renal.

 

[Ismet]

Lol what. That would take away the entire purpose of a standardized exam, and then what's the point??

 

[tantacles]

There wrong. Everyone knows that the average has gone up too over 230, when that used two be a good score. You will loose out if your following they're advice blindly. You might think that I have a few screws lose to argue against these veterans, but than it would be you're loss. I must follow my principals and tell you the truth. Test-prep has come a long way - read the Prep+Experience thread, and if your following the excellent advice offered their, rather then accepting random advice, you're friend would be in excellent shape. Is you're friend, by any chance, a Principle?

No. The average last year was 228.

 

[Ismet]

No. The average last year was 228.

Judging by the horrific grammar in that person's post, which I hope was done as some kind of weird joke, I think she/he is being facetious. I really really really hope the grammar was a joke.

 

[thehundredthone]

Then I pick behavioral sciences, pharm, neuroanatomy, and everything renal.

If you pick everything, they'll test you on everything else.

Judging by the horrific grammar in that person's post, which I hope was done as some kind of weird joke, I think she/he is being facetious. I really really really hope the grammar was a joke.

Give SDN posters some credit, look at the OP's (Knicks) signature.

 

[Ismet]

Give SDN posters some credit, look at the OP's (Knicks) signature.

Completely missed that. Now I am mildly entertained instead of somewhat mortified.

 

[Psai]

No. The average last year was 228.

To my knowledge it was 227 last year and it rose to 228 this year.

 

[tantacles]

To my knowledge it was 227 last year and it rose to 228 this year.

They report last year's average. This year isn't over yet.

2013 - 228
2012 - 227

 

[Psai]

They report last year's average. This year isn't over yet.

2013 - 228
2012 - 227

How do you know

 

[tantacles]

How do you know

Because 2013 is over and 2014 has five months to go. Also, the score report said so.

 

[Psai]

No it doesn't, it says for recent administrations. 228 is for the test we took and 227 is last year's average.