My Impression on the Style of Step 1 questions

[fumeighan]

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[kbeitz]

Thank you for this. Did you feel that a good portion were thought provoking questions (i.e., remember the mechanism to figure out the answer) or straight forward knowledge based (i.e., you either know the random fact or you do not)? Maybe the latter is more required in your Type 3a/3b questions.

 

[lavenderflowers]

Thanks so much, this was immensely helpful! I'm taking the beast soon in a couple weeks, what do suggest regarding prep for these types of questions?

 

[soop]

This deserves a sticky.

 

[Reperfused]

This is probably the most helpful post I've come across so far, after having read through a trillion posts over a dozen forums!
Thank you so much! May God Bless you with an awesome score 🙂
By the way, what's the answer of qs 3a?

 

[aspiringmd1015]

nice

 

[fumeighan]

Thanks so much, this was immensely helpful! I'm taking the beast soon in a couple weeks, what do suggest regarding prep for these types of questions?

Besides First Aid like the back of your hand - I think working on elimination. When you do practice questions, not only pick what's right, but in a lawyer-like fashion, prove why the wrong answers are wrong. That'll help you immensely with the vague stuff they'll throw at you. I suspect I missed a fair amount semi-panicking instead of doing that.

This is probably the most helpful post I've come across so far, after having read through a trillion posts over a dozen forums!
Thank you so much! May God Bless you with an awesome score 🙂
By the way, what's the answer of qs 3a?

Thank you! I was motivated to write this because I couldn't find any post that gave the "feel" of the exam to my satisfaction. I'm glad it can help you.

What IS THE ANSWER to 3a??!

 

[CosmicDoc]

That was funny and useful) thank you, buddy)

 

[medcat92]

This is really helpful, thank you! Did you feel like the questions were longer than NBME questions since they changed it to 40 questions to a block?

 

[dabricej]

Yes, thank you very much. This was a fantastic example

 

[AsadaBurrito]

I like the shady stab at the Kings

 

[TheShaker]

I like the shady stab at the Kings

I see Raiders fans are getting bored in the offseason.

 

[raspberryberet]

So would you say that overall the NBME's are more representative than UWorld? I'm getting the impression that they are, but that the real thing is rather harder.

 

[tvelocity514]

So would you say that overall the NBME's are more representative than UWorld? I'm getting the impression that they are, but that the real thing is rather harder.

Yes to both.


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