CBBSA @ school vs NBME's?

[fahimaz7]

Advertisement - Members don't see this ad

What's the deal here? I hear that we are going to have ~240 questions tomorrow on the CBBSA that we are about to have, which doesn't match up with any of the ones that I can purchase separately. Is it the same test? We are taking a paper copy of it, since we aren't required to have laptops at my school.

Any clue?

 

[SeekerOfTheTree]

Some schools buy tests from the NBME. Those questions don't come from the tests that are on their site which they are selling to us. Your school might have purchased a test to give to you guys and picked the questions out they wanted in the areas they thought would be most important. I am just guessing here that this is probably what your school did because ours does the same thing.

 

[fahimaz7]

Interesting.. So they hand picked the subjects to be covered? Seems kinda strange...

 

[sp226]

Interesting.. So they hand picked the subjects to be covered? Seems kinda strange...

My school does the same thing. I don't think that they hand pick the questions though. The paper NBME's are more similar to UWorld but a little easier in my opinion versus the online NBME's. All of the paper NBME's I took offered by my school had 200 questions each to complete in about 4 hours without any breaks.

 

[fahimaz7]

So ours was today. It had 185 questions and was a paper version. We were given 4 hours to complete it.

I hear a rumor that everyone's predicted score is super low, you guys seeing that at your school as well? Do they tell you the classes/national average?

 

[drosenb3]

Our school gave us a web-based one today. 4 blocks of 50. approx 4.5 hrs

 

[sp226]

So ours was today. It had 185 questions and was a paper version. We were given 4 hours to complete it.

I hear a rumor that everyone's predicted score is super low, you guys seeing that at your school as well? Do they tell you the classes/national average?

No, we weren't told the class/national average. I only got an email from the school with my report which looks similar to the online NBME reports but on a different scale.

 

[SeekerOfTheTree]

We were told the national average for the questions we got and how our class scored in relation to it.