Step I CBBSA @ school vs NBME's?

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fahimaz7

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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?
 
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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.
 
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fahimaz7 said:
Interesting.. So they hand picked the subjects to be covered? Seems kinda strange...
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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.
 
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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?
 
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fahimaz7 said:
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?
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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.
 
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