CBSE -July 2024

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Do people generally score better than their practice test scores?
 
Surgeondad said:
Generally Yes! CBSE is quite close to NBME, you will be able to predict.
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Do you know on average how much higher? Like should we expect 5% increase? I know it's different from person to person but just based on what you heard from people. Thank you and good luck everyone.
 
DentistRays said:
Do you know on average how much higher? Like should we expect 5% increase? I know it's different from person to person but just based on what you heard from people. Thank you and good luck everyone.
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I wouldn’t count on a huge jump. I scored 1 point better than my highest practice test, which I took the week before the exam.

It was a fair bit higher than my average. But that doesn’t really matter since I was improving over time.

I would expect to be within a point or two of your most recent NBME practice exam.
 
Gustavo dos Santos said:
I wouldn’t count on a huge jump. I scored 1 point better than my highest practice test, which I took the week before the exam.

It was a fair bit higher than my average. But that doesn’t really matter since I was improving over time.

I would expect to be within a point or two of your most recent NBME practice exam.
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Hey I have a question regardig Anki. Can I PM you?
 
This is my second attempt after July 2023, it felt alright but much fewer “gimme” questions. Could go either way- my main goal is to beat myself last year so here’s hoping.
 
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I underestimated how much the 1st month on my non-cat yr would screw up my studying lol, does anyone know if there’s any questions thrown out/experimental?
 
ThrowawayOMFS said:
I underestimated how much the 1st month on my non-cat yr would screw up my studying lol, does anyone know if there’s any questions thrown out/experimental?
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I wish! Don't think anything is experimental. The exam is just messing up with time. It truly sucks at this point.
 
ThrowawayOMFS said:
I underestimated how much the 1st month on my non-cat yr would screw up my studying lol, does anyone know if there’s any questions thrown out/experimental?
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Apparently they have curved it a 1-2% in the past but I wouldn’t count on that
 
It seemed quite harder than the one in February but maybe that’s just biased cause I seem to only remember hard things from it right now.
 
PurringTurtle said:
Scored high 76+ on NBMEs 25-31 with a high of 80 and this CBSE felt the worst out of all of them by far lol...
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What did you feel was missing? What were your resources for the preparation?
NBMEs are very much predictable to the actual exam, can say this from my experience.
 
Felt exam was very extreme - meaning essy questions were hyper easy and difficult questions were insanely difficult with vague vignettes and multiple good sounding answer choices. Good luck to everyone hope it went well
 
Surgeondad said:
What did you feel was missing? What were your resources for the preparation?
NBMEs are very much predictable to the actual exam, can say this from my experience.
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Used the standard UFAP up until final month, where i started to crank out NBMEs more in exchange for some UW Qs. Would take a NBME one night (i.e. saturday), and would then review the whole thing the next day, going thru everything even if i got it right, and also making sure i felt like i knew why wrong choices were wrong...idk maybe im psyching myself out abt the test, but it truthfully felt tougher than NBMEs. I usually was able to tell if i was going on a streak of getting a lot of Qs correct on NBMEs, but didnt rly get the same feeling this time lol. Now we wait
 
are results typically released one week later? should we expect them tomorrow or nah
 
The last time AAOMS released the mean CBSE scores was Feb 2021 and the mean was a 60 old score (low 50s EPC).

That was in peak COVID era so I can’t imagine scores have gone up significantly from then.
 
Low 70s EPC which was a bit higher than my practice test scores. I used advice found from previous threads. With that said, I think persistence is the most important thing with this exam. I also recommend bootcamp over boards.
 
Tvirtumas said:
Low 70s EPC which was a bit higher than my practice test scores. I used advice found from previous threads. With that said, I think persistence is the most important thing with this exam. I also recommend bootcamp over boards.
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congrats! Could you tell what was your NBME practice scores?
 
Tvirtumas said:
Low 70s EPC which was a bit higher than my practice test scores. I used advice found from previous threads. With that said, I think persistence is the most important thing with this exam. I also recommend bootcamp over boards.
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Second this comment
 
Tvirtumas said:
Low 70s EPC which was a bit higher than my practice test scores. I used advice found from previous threads. With that said, I think persistence is the most important thing with this exam. I also recommend bootcamp over boards.
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This is what i would say
 
73 EPC. feel free to DM me. not a stellar score my any means but happy to answer a few Qs if anyone has any. Hope everyone did well!
 
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