kaplan q bank only

[pufferfish]

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We have Kaplan Q bank through our university. I probably won't be able to get UWorld.

I am presently in the 55% correct zone. However, I'm hearing that this QBank is easier than USMLE :<. Also, it seems the kaplan score estimator has a pretty high inflation...

My exam is in 3.5 weeks.

Any thoughts on the percentage I should aim for correct in Kaplan? My understanding is that 50-60% is safe for UWorld. But couldn't really find info on here regarding Kaplan.

Plan on taking practice tests over the next 3 weeks as well.

Thanks! 😀

 

[gpac123]

What is your reasoning for not getting UWorld? It is way, way better.

 

[gpac123]

This is important btw 😉

 

[SlaveOfTCMC]

TO be fair to Kaplan, many of their questions come straight from their own notes.

To be critical, Kaplan requires you know some rather.. well.. "where did this come from?" type of material

For instance: Tangier Disease

 

[pufferfish]

This is important btw 😉

true. point taken. just don't seem to have the hours to put into another Qbank, but I guess I can sleep when I'm dead... or ignore the kaplan qbank...

 

[gpac123]

As someone that has some experience with both Qbanks, I really think it is in your best interest to do whatever you have to do to get through Uworld and make that first priority, seriously.

I am in a similar predicament in that I still have a lot of questions to do, but I want to get through both of them. So I am going through UWorld very carefully and meticulously, reading the (absolutely excellent) explanations in great detail, etc. And then to get more questions in, I pound through a bunch of Kaplan questions and look at the answers very very briefly.

I would advise doing something like this. What do you think?

 

[pufferfish]

As someone that has some experience with both Qbanks, I really think it is in your best interest to do whatever you have to do to get through Uworld and make that first priority, seriously.

I am in a similar predicament in that I still have a lot of questions to do, but I want to get through both of them. So I am going through UWorld very carefully and meticulously, reading the (absolutely excellent) explanations in great detail, etc. And then to get more questions in, I pound through a bunch of Kaplan questions and look at the answers very very briefly.

I would advise doing something like this. What do you think?

golden. purchased UWorld--thanks for the push. Did a one block set of 46 questions...and got crushed hahaha. But knew it would happen.

 

[gpac123]

Feeling pretty good about myself after how much I just boosted your score 😉

 

[mastamark]

Kaplan Qbank is the devil.

I have been doing Uworld for a while and got my averages up to around 60% on my last 5-6 blocks before running out. I had it reset and I teeter between 65-80% with an overall of 67%(1200 questions done 2nd time). I rarely see a question I remember from the first go 'round...not a good thing hehe.

I bought Qbank to get fresh questions and I am much more variable then I ever was on Uworld. I only average about 60% over there and it's because I get smashed after going on a long run of 70+ only to randomly get 49% here and there. It seems that they ask some very odd and esoteric questions. It also seems that they throw a ton of deceivingly easy "gotcha" questions in there just to say "well in reality 2+2 = 4.00000001 if you are in X scenario." They also overuse the misdirection tool of changing the names of things to mix you up, and not to recognizable names at that.

Uworld has difficult questions, but they don't have really tricky questions per se, just new material not found in FA.

I really hope the real test is more like Uworld than Kaplan, judging from NBMEs they are.

I'm done ranting, in the end you gotta do what get's you 95+ right?

 

[pufferfish]

Kaplan Qbank is the devil.

I have been doing Uworld for a while and got my averages up to around 60% on my last 5-6 blocks before running out. I had it reset and I teeter between 65-80% with an overall of 67%(1200 questions done 2nd time). I rarely see a question I remember from the first go 'round...not a good thing hehe.

I bought Qbank to get fresh questions and I am much more variable then I ever was on Uworld. I only average about 60% over there and it's because I get smashed after going on a long run of 70+ only to randomly get 49% here and there. It seems that they ask some very odd and esoteric questions. It also seems that they throw a ton of deceivingly easy "gotcha" questions in there just to say "well in reality 2+2 = 4.00000001 if you are in X scenario." They also overuse the misdirection tool of changing the names of things to mix you up, and not to recognizable names at that.

Uworld has difficult questions, but they don't have really tricky questions per se, just new material not found in FA.

I really hope the real test is more like Uworld than Kaplan, judging from NBMEs they are.

I'm done ranting, in the end you gotta do what get's you 95+ right?

sounds familiar. the %correct is very discouraging.

 

[ArcGurren]

Kaplan Qbank is the devil.

I have been doing Uworld for a while and got my averages up to around 60% on my last 5-6 blocks before running out. I had it reset and I teeter between 65-80% with an overall of 67%(1200 questions done 2nd time). I rarely see a question I remember from the first go 'round...not a good thing hehe.

I bought Qbank to get fresh questions and I am much more variable then I ever was on Uworld. I only average about 60% over there and it's because I get smashed after going on a long run of 70+ only to randomly get 49% here and there. It seems that they ask some very odd and esoteric questions. It also seems that they throw a ton of deceivingly easy "gotcha" questions in there just to say "well in reality 2+2 = 4.00000001 if you are in X scenario." They also overuse the misdirection tool of changing the names of things to mix you up, and not to recognizable names at that.

Uworld has difficult questions, but they don't have really tricky questions per se, just new material not found in FA.

I really hope the real test is more like Uworld than Kaplan, judging from NBMEs they are.

I'm done ranting, in the end you gotta do what get's you 95+ right?

Agreed with all of this; I liked Kaplan Qbank for the fresh new questions it provided and thought it was a better secondary qbank than Rx, but it's not a good one to use as a primary Qbank b/c it doesn't go through the concepts as thoroughly as UW does. It's in OP's best interest to get UW early on.

 

[MossPoh]

I really had to muscle through the last 20% of Kaplan's qbank. I like the integrated education they TRY to do, but it oftentimes doesn't really do much.