How well does the NBMEs correlate to CBSE score and difficulty?

[sevensamurai]

To those, who've taken the exam, if you could please shed some light on these questions, I would greatly appreciate it.

Would you say the curve of the nbme is similar to that of the cbse?

Are the questions on the cbse more difficult?

Which nbmes would you say are most predictive?

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[Incision21]

To those, who've taken the exam, if you could please shed some light on these questions, I would greatly appreciate it.

Would you say the curve of the nbme is similar to that of the cbse?

Are the questions on the cbse more difficult?

Which nbmes would you say are most predictive?

I have no idea how many questions I got wrong on the CBSE so I can't speak to the curve but the difficulty level of the real thing was very similar to the NBME. The newer NBMEs are probably the most predictive.

 

[BYU4you]

My actual score was pretty much the average of my NBMEs. I took my NBMEs all within the last 3 weeks of studying. That being said the last two days of studying for the actual CBSE I really went back and reviewed a ton, had I put that cramming before the NBMEs they would have been higher.

In other words, the NBMEs are slightly easier but a pretty dang good predictor in my case

 

[Likkriue]

They are literally the same exact things. Predicted my score really well.

 

[PhansterZ]

I took it a few years back and thought the practice NBMEs, especially the newer ones, correlated very well to my cbse score. Within 2 points.

 

[omfsing]

Nbme is the closest predictor. I think I took nbme 15 and I got the exact same score. Same with the free 150.

 

[Dulxy]

it was 99% predictive for me. NBME 18 was only one point higher than my CBSE score