NBME 6 to find repeat concepts/questions?

[sebsvenmdc]

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Could any of you tell me whether you think it's worth buying form 6 just for practice to see questions and their concepts? I mean, how many repeat questions did you have? Is it worth $45? I take my test in less than a week. I would take it in 4 1 hr chunks over the next several days. And not look at the score at the end since it's so close to my test. I could try to find the concepts in books tho. But I have to cram at the end here too.

I've taken 2 CBSEs, NBME 2,4, and 5, and UWSA1. Also, almost done w/ UW. Did 1,025 Kaplan questions. And about 800 Robbins Review.

 

[RisingSun]

I haven't taken the real thing so I have no idea about overlap. But I did take 6 yesterday and I thought that for me, at least, it was the hardest that I have taken (4,5, and 6). More test questions could only help, not hurt, I guess, but why not take it under actual conditions to get your nerves going and simulate the real thing?

either way.

 

[sebsvenmdc]

I haven't taken the real thing so I have no idea about overlap. But I did take 6 yesterday and I thought that for me, at least, it was the hardest that I have taken (4,5, and 6). More test questions could only help, not hurt, I guess, but why not take it under actual conditions to get your nerves going and simulate the real thing?

either way.

Yeah, interesting. You know, perceived difficulty doesn't mean too much. I thought nbme 4 was much harder than nbme 5, and I got 251 on both. I could take 6...but I have only days until my real test, so the principle of opportunity cost requires consideration!

 

[arroser]

Could any of you tell me whether you think it's worth buying form 6 just for practice to see questions and their concepts? I mean, how many repeat questions did you have? Is it worth $45? I take my test in less than a week. I would take it in 4 1 hr chunks over the next several days. And not look at the score at the end since it's so close to my test. I could try to find the concepts in books tho. But I have to cram at the end here too.

I've taken 2 CBSEs, NBME 2,4, and 5, and UWSA1. Also, almost done w/ UW. Did 1,025 Kaplan questions. And about 800 Robbins Review.

I think the most important question is, if you knew for a fact that you would get one question right solely because you'd seen it on NBME 6, would you regret not doing it? That's probably about your best-case scenario. I did NBME 6, missed an anatomy question on it, didn't think to look it up, and put the same (wrong) answer down when it came up on the real thing. Stings, but I would've gotten it wrong if I hadn't seen the question before, so no real loss.

 

[sebsvenmdc]

I think the most important question is, if you knew for a fact that you would get one question right solely because you'd seen it on NBME 6, would you regret not doing it? That's probably about your best-case scenario. I did NBME 6, missed an anatomy question on it, didn't think to look it up, and put the same (wrong) answer down when it came up on the real thing. Stings, but I would've gotten it wrong if I hadn't seen the question before, so no real loss.

Lol, ok, I'm definitely not doing it! There's a great chance I'll miss some tidbits in 4 hours of reviewing other stuff. Hey, I'm trying to remember your experience post...did you review any of Robbins. The DIT guy told us to at least hit the pictures in the first 7 chapters for cell bio. I wish our school threw in a cell bio course!

 

[arroser]

Lol, ok, I'm definitely not doing it! There's a great chance I'll miss some tidbits in 4 hours of reviewing other stuff. Hey, I'm trying to remember your experience post...did you review any of Robbins. The DIT guy told us to at least hit the pictures in the first 7 chapters for cell bio. I wish our school threw in a cell bio course!

I didn't review Robbins, but I'd done all of the Robbins Review during the year and read about half of the High Yield Cell and Molecular Bio book after finals. I liked it for skimming. General Path and that weirdo "General Principles of Health and Disease" section were usually some of my highest scores on practice tests, so I didn't bother. I felt that between histo, biochem, phys, pharm and path we hit most of the cell bio stuff and since I was a humanities major for a reason, I'm glad we didn't have to take a separate class! 😀

 

[sebsvenmdc]

I didn't review Robbins, but I'd done all of the Robbins Review during the year and read about half of the High Yield Cell and Molecular Bio book after finals. I liked it for skimming. General Path and that weirdo "General Principles of Health and Disease" section were usually some of my highest scores on practice tests, so I didn't bother. I felt that between histo, biochem, phys, pharm and path we hit most of the cell bio stuff and since I was a humanities major for a reason, I'm glad we didn't have to take a separate class! 😀

Lol, nice. I wish I had actually finished the Robbins review questions. They're pretty solid. Ugh, I actually wish I had the Step today. Almost everyone at our school is done already!

 

[metallo]

Yeah, interesting. You know, perceived difficulty doesn't mean too much. I thought nbme 4 was much harder than nbme 5, and I got 251 on both. I could take 6...but I have only days until my real test, so the principle of opportunity cost requires consideration!

If you've gotten a 251 on multiple NBME exams (so you know it's not a fluke), then I'm not sure why you're worrying. In any case, though, if you want to look at NBME 6, I don't see why you wouldn't simulate test conditions and get a score out of it. It only takes 4 hours, and I would rather do it than possibly regret not having looked at it later. It's the only NBME I haven't done yet... I'll be taking it about a week before my exam.

 

[bola]

If you have time to do it....then go ahead. But the question I had, I could have answered it w/o previously seeing it on the NBME and it was in FA. I think one could also say that there might be blatant repeats from all other NBMEs too. I'd say just focus on reminding yourself of things from FA over the next few days leading up to your test.

All the best

 

[sebsvenmdc]

If you have time to do it....then go ahead. But the question I had, I could have answered it w/o previously seeing it on the NBME and it was in FA. I think one could also say that there might be blatant repeats from all other NBMEs too. I'd say just focus on reminding yourself of things from FA over the next few days leading up to your test.

All the best

Thanks for the feedback! I think I'm going to avoid taking nbme 6 because my test is in 5 days, I'm taking the free 150 tomorrow, and I feel like I need to conserve energy...this is week 7! So tired! 😴 FA sounds like a good plan...I'm definitely going into the exam with the realization that there could be a lot of out-of-left-field stuff on the test...but what's a better high yield alternative a few days before the test. Nothing. Exactly!

 

[Mortal_Lessons]

This is about a question/topic that was tested on NBME 6, so please do not look ahead if you plan to take this exam.







Anyone know which one of these drugs has the potential adverse effects of hypotension, vomiting, dyspnea, etc., thirty minutes after administration: recombinant EPO, GM-CSF, G-CSF, or thrombopoetin? I haven't been able to locate which one has these potential side effects. It doesn't really sound like an anaphylactic reaction, does it? Do patients become dyspneic and vomit in anaphylaxis?? The hypotension and time of onset are consistent with anaphylaxis but not the other signs and symptoms. The patient was HIV+ and being treated for myelosuppression secondary to retroviral therapy. Thoughts?

 

[NCF145]

This is about a question/topic that was tested on NBME 6, so please do not look ahead if you plan to take this exam.







Anyone know which one of these drugs has the potential adverse effects of hypotension, vomiting, dyspnea, etc., thirty minutes after administration: recombinant EPO, GM-CSF, G-CSF, or thrombopoetin? I haven't been able to locate which one has these potential side effects. It doesn't really sound like an anaphylactic reaction, does it? Do patients become dyspneic and vomit in anaphylaxis?? The hypotension and time of onset are consistent with anaphylaxis but not the other signs and symptoms. Thoughts?

The answer is GM-CSF