Seems pretty uncommon I've read many a dozen reports (so credible I know) and there's usually one person out of at least 10 that that happens to. But you could also be the one who gets a standard deviation above their practice scores too. Big time players making big time guesses haha
And the mere mortals (me) will guarantee we messed up enough haha now to hope I got enough right
Mere mortals like me would think I didn't make mistakes bc I probably would misinterpret my incorrects as corrects lmaooooo
so the NBME publishes data on this question when they give you your score reports. It seems like 75%~ of the time people meet or exceed their NBME baseline for each individual test. However there is the 25% of the time where people do worse.
Can't do worse if you never take an NBME
this depends on the form, and may even vary by the question.
Ah shoot - sorry it were form 18. I forgot to say that, my brain is fried.
They are “technically right” on the first one. It’s dumb but at the end of the day most of us in this thread could probably take a day or two of continuous morphine and not become addicted.
Would it be good to spread the pathoma on your Fri to sun too? Idk for you but for me one day of 4 hrs always worse than spread out in terms of retention
18 is the only one with data. Who knows for the others? maybe they are more representative after the question change that occurred.
That would be so crazy if it was true. You would be absolutely shook if you felt it was hard then later blocks started asking questions like "what is a statin" lmao
that is for standardized exams with adaptive testing. The number of questions you answer also varies with these types of exams. The STEP 1 to my knowledge is not an adaptive test. The NCLEX is.
Or in the last block:
As far as I recall, adaptive testing is really only used for pass/fail exams. Numerical scores I don’t think are really a think in the adaptive testing world.
I’m just curious to know a ballpark of the percentage correct that correlates to each score. One of the professors at our school that does something with the NBME (I can’t remember what) said a 60-70% is a 230. Idk if that’s true or not
I talked myself out of a lot of things and did a lot of second-guessing, which is very unlike me from my practice tests. Not sure if I was right or wrong in the end and now I can't remember to look them up even if I wanted to
i know this feeling. And I always get the "shut up, you did fine" speech from my friends. This is probably a first world problem, but people's goals are different so the disappointment with not hitting 250+ for people who have busted their behinds is just as real for the person hitting 225 after having their heart set on 230.
I have a feeling they mix old questions with new ones to confirm concordance of performance. But the new questions may not matter in that specific sitting. So you might get all the old questions right and all the new questions wrong with a 75% and end up with a 270+ or you may get all the new questions right and all a good chunk of the old questions wrong with all the new questions right and end up with 75% but a 245. so the percent correct may have a large variation with 3 digit performance at the end of the day.
Honestly could be realer for people like you since the effort was so insane. I'm aiming for around a 240 realistically, and it seems like the margin for error can get so low and the chance of being hit with a few random things you didn't polish up is so much higher the higher you go. Even with zanki done and hundreds of other questions from alternative banks, consistently hitting 80+ is hard for me and I've plateaued at around 77-78 on average for uworld lol.
Don't think I've ever seen someone with your practice scores/UW% score below a 250 lol go kill it
My buttons still there but when i click on it says unavailable, which im pretty sure is not the same thing as “permit disappearing” that people refer to
