I've been wondering the same exact thing. It seemed like anything above 80% was exceptional on Uworld and correlated to high 250s+ before, but then I'm also seeing tons of people post this year with U-World in the 80s and step scores significantly lower and it's freaking me out.
not sure. its a school administered NBME. but thanks! I will need it
legit just died reading this lmao 🤣
Thanks! If you are an MS1/MS2, I would watch all of the videos as a primary resource. If you are in dedicated time, I would watch only the ones that you are weak in. I thought all of his videos were great to be honest, can't think of one subject that stood out more than the other.
UWorld. It was pretty much the only thing I did during dedicated (3 blocks/day with review) as well as anki.
I doubt Zanki alone is raising UWorld percentages. I think at most 10% of my class uses it. That's a generous estimate. I'd guess that's a matter of "not in FA but taught at every medical school," but your lecturer happened to be awful for that subject.
Nothing special but I did all the q banks along with the classes especially starting 2nd year and studied in the summer after 1st year to cover all the gaps I had from first year.
I was scoring anywhere from 77-90% consistently on Uworld blocks and never broke 250 on the NBMEs. I thought my exam was incredibly difficult. Like amazingly difficult. I thought Uworld was pretty easy especially compared to my real test. Bracing myself to have to choose a different career path which is going to be seriously disappointing. The variability of the real deal is astounding. My classmates who had struggled throughout first and second year felt pretty good about their tests, where as I, who had not really struggled, felt like I tanked so badly after the real deal. We all joked that they got ahold of our practice tests and that’s how they allocated the real test. Oh boy that’s going to start some wicked rumor and the USMLE Gods are going to come after me.
Those are good percentages! Don't worry about what others are getting. I think there is a huge difference in uworld because people use it differently. Plus, as someone mentioned before, if you didn't study as much during school you will see a very large jump in your scores during dedicated. And then there is always the fact that you might get a test that doesn't suit your strengths and then people get 240s instead of 250s (which in my mind is not something to be too upset about).
That's a good UWorld percentage. Don't let people psych you out. The UWorld questions are very involved.
Sounds awesome. Throw out NBME 19 because it way underestimates and throw out UWSA 1 because it way overestimates. 18 and UWSA 2 are supposed to be solid estimates so I definitely think a 240 is well within your grasp!
since you have to keep re-typing your CIN every time you take a break, it gets frustrating. To avoid that frustration, the first type you type it in, just copy it and for the rest of the exam, you paste it into the CIN box. let me know if that needs clarification.
I was in a similar position (94) and my adviser said not to take it early- I found that I got a good amount out of dedicated but did end up taking it a couple of weeks early since I felt that I wasn't learning anything more at that point, so fwiw you might actually want to take it earlier than planned or you might feel burnt towards the end
Actually that's like perfect and the same amount of time I ended up using
