NBME forms

[12thMan]

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Which NBME forms are supposed to be most indicative of your actual step 1 score? Which ones are better used as diagnostics? Is it generally the higher the form number the newer and better predictive ability of the exam?

thanks for any responses.

 

[newdoc2013]

6, 7, 11, 12

 

[Phloston]

From what I've seen/read, the general consensus is that NBME3 is the hardest, NBME12 produces the highest score out of the NBMEs, NBME13 freaks everyone out because it slightly under-predicts (which is worse when you take it right before your exam because it's the newest one), and NBME6 is apparently most similar to the real exam (but everyone's exams differ).