Kaplan Qbank - Question Style

[Krazykyle]

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To those who have used Qbank and USMLE world.

Do you find the Qbank has some very poorly written questions that are purposely misleading and vague in their wording or just plain poorly written so as it is unclear what they are asking. I have just started using it after finishing most of USMLEWorld and doing well with it, but I sometimes feel with Qbank that the questions were written without much though on what concept they are testing and without much research into the question beyond first aid level.

I think it really is a good Qbank to use as a learning tool, but I'm finding some questions are just stupid. Especially the behavior science ones.

Anyone else have the same experience?

 

[Krazykyle]

Additionally I am finding that compared to USMLEworld, the Qbank questions ask you to infer things that may or may not be true thus changing what they are asking. I am finding not so much that they are hard, but that they are poorly written which is somewhat frustrating.

Even USMLERX, which is not heavy on concepts has better written questions.

 

[McGillGrad]

When it comes to any qbank except UW, ignore the awful question style and logic and use the context clues to get to the answer. Only UW writes great questions with solid logic.

It took me many frustrated hours to ignore USMLErx and Kaplan question styles and focused on the key words to find the answer.

 

[sexyman]

Yea I have noticed that with Kaplan Qbank for sure. I plan on getting USMLE World pretty soon.

 

[vicinihil]

My favorite so far has been...old dude got bunch of bruises, which is most likely.

 

[PSUtoMD]

My favorite so far has been...old dude got bunch of bruises, which is most likely.

I think I got that one too. It was a Vitamin K or PT/INR question, right? And I picked PT/INR, but because I thought they were actual bruises/hematomas. Turns out I was right, but for the wrong reason (the explanation was something about a rash I think?)

 

[vicinihil]

The answer ended up being abuse and the reasoning was that he had bruises in places incongruent with a fall.....

 

[badasshairday]

The answer ended up being abuse and the reasoning was that he had bruises in places incongruent with a fall.....

Did they at least describe the location of the bruises? I remember Goljan talked about senile purpura and made it a point to contrast it with abuse. It was all about the location.