NBEO part 1 advice

[Penny Laporta]

Need advice for prepping for NBEO part 1:

Are Optoprep questions similar, harder, or easier in difficultly to actual NBEO questions? And did you notice a correlation to what % you're getting on Optoprep practice to what you actually got on boards?

Less than a month left..at this point how much should I focus on non big 8?

What practice test on KMK is most similar in terms of difficulty and/or wording of questions to real part 1?

Got NBEO test bank..were any questions from test bank actually on the test?

Has anyone used Geo and Visual Optics by Schwartz to prepare for optics portion?

any other advice you have will be appreciated

Thank you in advance!!

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[shevchenko277]

I would say Optoprep questions are slightly harder overall. I would aim to get around 75 percent correct on Optoprep as well as 80s on KMK mock exams to guarantee passing Part 1.
With less than a month, I would listen to KMK booster course videos especially Optics and keep doing practice problems from KMK and Optoprep at this point. Around 50 a day.
The NBEO test bank helped a little with maybe a couple questions on the actual test but the actual exam was harder.