Lucky Guesser?

[premed7]

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I'm doing USMLEWorld questions right now and my averages are pretty good (70-80). Only thing is, I feel clueless while taking the test. I feel like I don't have a solid foundation to really answer the question, but can almost always narrow it down to at least two choices. Will I be screwed for the real deal?

I almost feel like I've gotten good at predicting USMLE world answers becasue I've been doing the question bank for so long (have gone through 50% of the questions). Should I be reading more and memorizing at this point?

I used USMLEworld for step 1, with the same kind of averages and was expecting a much higher score on the real deal but ended up with a 230. I'm afraid history will repeat itself. Any advice? Anyone else in a similar situation?

 

[premiergator]

i hear you, im doing the same thing. sometimes i feel if i read one line of the questions i can just look at the answer choices and pretty much know already what the answer could be. its almost like i know what they're tryin to get it. but for many of them im not basing it on my actual knowledge. this did happen to me as well for step 1 and i actually thought about the questions way to much instead of goin with the first answer that pops in my head and didnt do well. im def just goin with the first choice on the real thing and not second guessing. who knows.

 

[predodoc]

i hear you, im doing the same thing. sometimes i feel if i read one line of the questions i can just look at the answer choices and pretty much know already what the answer could be. its almost like i know what they're tryin to get it. but for many of them im not basing it on my actual knowledge. this did happen to me as well for step 1 and i actually thought about the questions way to much instead of goin with the first answer that pops in my head and didnt do well. im def just goin with the first choice on the real thing and not second guessing. who knows.

I just started UW for step 2, but last year I remember "getting good" at doing UW questions. I could guess the right answer even though I didnt know. Anyway, a 230 isnt too bad, no matter what your UW score.

 

[Dr McSteamy]

count me in.

i'd say that I don't know chit overall.

but for instance, i'll do a question, cross out the obvious wrong choices, and then say something like "that's gotta have something to do with the liver"......... and then pick the closest answer.

turns out, it is the right answer, but i didn't know why exactly.

I always draw question marks next to the ones i'm clueless about. that way i'll know if it was just a lucky guess.

 

[climbingdocs]

yea, I felt like that too, altho my final UW was 63%. I did all of it, and redid all the ones I got wrong. I was hoping that it would be easier to do real deal, but no. I was really clueless on real test. I wasn't sure of most questions. I don't feel good about it. But my only hope is that last year I thought I did really bad on step 1 and I got 236, which I was really happy about.