Step I Experimental Questions

[yasky]

How do you spot experimental questions on the test so that you won't spend too much time on them? They say they're the ones which will literally boggle your mind and you will be like a zombie, staring at it and thinking how the heck did they come up with this. Will they have, for instance, answer choices contradictory to one-another? Question stem that inquires about something not clearly related to the answer choices? Or there will be there some kind of hint/clue that the question is experimental?

 

[proud]

How do you spot experimental questions on the test so that you won't spend too much time on them? They say they're the ones which will literally boggle your mind and you will be like a zombie, staring at it and thinking how the heck did they come up with this. Will they have, for instance, answer choices contradictory to one-another? Question stem that inquires about something not clearly related to the answer choices? Or there will be there some kind of hint/clue that the question is experimental?

i really want to know the answer,,,,

anyone????????!!!

 

[Phur]

There isn't. The experimental ones are being tested to be added to the bank of questions, so why would you expect them to stick out? They are going to look like any other questions. Sure if there's a typo or something, maybe. The Step has easy, medium and hard questions. If you skip every hard question, you're in trouble because most of them will be real.

Moral of the story: 1) Treat every question like it's a real one. 2) Trying to figure out shortcuts will get you burnt.

 

[omarm]

Well i guess this might help answer you;


http://blogs.askdoc-usmle.com/is-the-usmle-getting-tougher-every-year/

However, if any of those who already did the exam can tell us about their experience with strange questions (as everybody consider them experimental), that would be helpful too!!!

good luck

 

[DoctorCR]

Put it this way, if your strategy is down to identifying the experimental questions on Step 1 and ignoring them to improve your score..... well..... I think you better move on to more important things.