Kaplan Questions and actual content

[M.Furfur]

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I am currently doing the kaplan qbank...I have some concerns about some questions they ask and how relevant are those things to actual board material.

-Mitral valve prolapse associated with Fragile X
-KI67 as a prognosis marker for astrocytoma
-FAB classificaton for lymphomas

I never heard of the first two. They are not in FA nor in my lecture notes and I specifically remember my pathology teacher telling us that we don't need to know the FAB classification for the boards!

Any advice?

 

[McGillGrad]

Both Kaplan and Rx have a good number of minutia that is low yield unless you know everything else.

 

[Mehrdad1]

Both Kaplan and Rx have a good number of minutia that is low yield unless you know everything else.

This is precisely why people prefer USMLEWORLD across the board.

 

[JAWSCIENCE]

Kaplan in general is known to have content that focuses on minutia. They try to make things more difficult than the boards rationalizing that if you can do the harder material you will ace the exam. However it makes you study in a completely unhelpful fashion. In my opinion USMLE world is much better.

 

[M.Furfur]

After having finished 800 questions of Kaplan already, I think it's time to call and cancel it.....I think the purpose of their minutia, are you kidding me?, type of questions is maybe to prove that the people who write questions for them are smart or something...

 

[SxRx]

So, if UW is good but should save the questions until a later date closer to the exam and Kaplan q banks test on minute details, what type of question banks do you recommend? Also how much is it?
Thanks!

 

[wAyRadikull]

I'm actually working my way through Kaplan qbank as we speak. This is of course during my pre-study period. I'll probably get UW once I finish it.

I kind of like Kaplan, even though it is very detail-oriented, but thats what I like about it. It helps you get down all those little things that keep slipping your mind. For example, I just ran through all the immuno and general path questions in the last two days and now I have a really good handle on different ILs, CDs, Igs etc. So for things like these, I think Kaplan is pretty decent. Price wise, its about a 110 for a month for about 2500 questions, which I think is worth it to drop pre-study.

 

[SxRx]

So, if UW is good but should save the questions until a later date closer to the exam and Kaplan q banks test on minute details, what type of question banks do you recommend? Also how much is it?
Thanks!

So does anyone have any suggestion to my question?

 

[JAWSCIENCE]

SxRx - you might try USMLERX which is created by the First Aid people. It wasn't very expenssive and it was my second favorite qbank behind UWorld. Some people like USMLEasy, but I found it too easy. Wikitestprep is free and was also pretty decent.

 

[RenshawCell]

I just took step 1 and even though UW is the best for review, Kaplan Qbank is better before you do UW.

 

[M.Furfur]

So, if UW is good but should save the questions until a later date closer to the exam and Kaplan q banks test on minute details, what type of question banks do you recommend? Also how much is it?
Thanks!

I am not trtying any other question banks, I will start with UW and hoping to finish it. Kaplan is 145 for 2 months, uworld is 189 for 3 months.

Just yesterday i had a question where the answer is digeorge syndrome, one of the answer was failure of pharyngeal pouches (correct answer), the other was velofaciocardial syndrome !!!!! According to most of the sources those syndromes are the same, but not according to kaplan!!!
Too bad they have no feedback feature.