Step II Need some advice on step 2

[traz2uzumab]

hey guys, long time lurker here. my step2 is scheduled for next week and i've been stressing out lol.

uwsa1 250
nbme 4 233
nbme 6 235
nbme 7 220 :/

the downward trend is scaring me lol. i still have uwsa2 left to do. is 240-250 still possible?

 

[DBV]

That's a pretty odd regression. Do you know why you're downtrending? Is it gaps in knowledge or burnout and question skimming? I don't know if I would take another assessment personally.

 

[MedNation907]

If UWSA's for step II are scaled like they are for step I then it's not necessarily a downtrend, it's more like nbme 7 is an outlier. Did anything weird happen during your last assessment?


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[iceman55]

hey guys, long time lurker here. my step2 is scheduled for next week and i've been stressing out lol.

uwsa1 250
nbme 4 233
nbme 6 235
nbme 7 220 :/


the downward trend is scaring me lol. i still have uwsa2 left to do. is 240-250 still possible?

How did you do on step 1?

Nbme 7 is a weird one i dropped too, and so did bunch of folks.

Also it makes sense that your UWSA score is higher than NBME because curve is a lot more generous.


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[emkayveedee]

hey guys, long time lurker here. my step2 is scheduled for next week and i've been stressing out lol.

uwsa1 250
nbme 4 233
nbme 6 235
nbme 7 220 :/

the downward trend is scaring me lol. i still have uwsa2 left to do. is 240-250 still possible?

Same thing happened to me. Scored a 245 on the first NBME and then every one after that went lower and lower. Scored a 245 on the first uwsa, 264 on the second. Upper 250s on the actual exam. Trust uworld over the NBMEs.

 

[adrenergic91]

It seems the general sentiment is UWSAs are more predictive and NBMEs significantly underpredict.

Anecdotally, I took NBME 4 as a baseline, then NBME 6 last week and UWSA 1 today. NBME 4 was 28 points lower, and NBME 6 was 14 pts lower than my UWSA score.