May the odds be ever in our favor 😛 I'll be rooting for ya
I feel like I'll probably end up doing the same just because if I don't I'll wonder what if? But a huge part of me wants to just say eff it to the NBME (how hard would it be to make 40 question blocks and make the interface like the actual exam....).
You should be able to make a copy of the document in the menu top left!
I heard the same thing from most people. I'm considering using it for my weak subjects only if I have time but otherwise idk how high yield it is.
Maybe its because I went from doing UW for weeks to kaplan lol
I think im gonna try Amboss man haha Im tired of low yield questions that are terribly written. Id rather study questions that make me overthink than low yield BS
When is your test?
Is your exam soon? not sure if you said. If i remember correctly feel like youre already in the 250+ range haha. Out of curiosity around how many questions have you done? All the high scorers I know have done a ridiculous number of questions
Questions questions and more questions. You will break 240 if you go ham on questions and review them. That is the single best use of your time right now (particularly new questions, not ones you have already done)
And you said you liked Amboss right? Almost everyone is saying its better than kaplan as far as content goes. Have been doing Kaplan over the past 2 weeks and Im starting to believe them lol too much low yield in Kaplan and the site is laggy af
When did y'll finish Zanki? Im set to finish it by the end of the month, and then I'll have 4 weeks till comlex, 6 weeks till step. sometimes I wonder If I'm finishing the deck too late in the game, Just not doing as well in Uworld as I was hoping I would.
This is the same thing they'd already put up on their FAQ, where I was mocking them for their corporate-speak hand waving about "stakeholders" and "complexities." There is zilch as far as tangible reasons why they couldn't accelerate by a year.
They updated it in response to your demands. Most of us are fine with school protected exams, as long as they had the proper security standards. Definitely was to ensure that. Send a NBME or prometric staff member to schools. Honestly a happy thing for us to hear
Give me a tangible, concrete bullet point from what they added.
Yeah, and that's the other issue, school by school variation. For every school that does care, there are probably twice as many who would just proctor it under the same conditions as their usual preclinical and shelf exams. I'm sure there will be a lot of lip service and superficial efforts, but would it be enough? We're talking about a test where access to entire fields is riding on whether you nail a couple dozen especially challenging questions.
Not all of the prometrics are perfect. I know for the one I took my MCAT, you could have cheated quite easily, just like you said you could at your schools. Prometric isn't a temple
If schools are legit getting outfitted with Prometric level security (detector wands, fingerprints, regularly and thoroughly searched premises, cameras watching you test in your seat throughout, no visibility of other screens, etc) then I have no complaints. But the security for NBMEs at my school has been nothing even approaching that level.
And if that Prometric was reported by an examinee I'm sure there's a process. Probably have to look at everyone's footage carefully that day, and if there's any funny business, void them. Plus patch up the security hole to the national standard before resuming tests. And, if this is a widespread issue, they can lose the contract to a competitor like the MCAT contract was lost to Pearson.
Let's not pretend school admins aren't also having some similar issues to Prometric. We just had a town hall where the admin refused to give a concrete answer on whether we're resuming in less than 3 weeks or not. Considering we're supposed to spend 2 weeks quarantined before entering the hospital, that means I'm waiting with bated breath to find out whether I'm flying across the country in the next 72 hours. Not all that dissimilar from the poor folks waiting to hear whether their exam is moved or not.
Again you would have to make sure that school was up-to-par to begin with in regards to security standards. They don't necessarily have to offer this at every school. Even if they did it a 15% of the schools, that would help take down the burden of scheduling
My friend just sent this. Updated list of prometric openings
COVID19 Site Guidelines and Requirements | Prometric
www.prometric.com
The step1 subreddit was fully of shady business this morning. Stuff like people getting confirmation of their exam a day or two beforehand, showing up, and being told they weren't able to test despite multiple empty seats in the room.
