agreed
I think the reason I had a negative reaction to his post is, not only was he whiney but a lot of us sacrifice our social life for 2 years and prob won't score as good as him/her and don't feel the need to go online and complain about it.. We all have students like this in our class that make the biggest deal out of their scores regardless of how good it is.
Good luck homie!
I think the biggest factor when making this decision is that what method would make you less burnt out and in a better mind space to feel like you will do well *rather real or not*. I think those close margins is all about the head game. So if doing UWORLD less will help you take care of yourself more it might help your score than doing more Qbanks
Makes sense. It's more that I feel I can't efficiently do more than 2 blocks of 40 a day. Actually doing the questions isn't the issue, it's reviewing. I don't want to start rushing through reviews just to do more questions a day and realistically, at this point even if I do 120 questions a day I will still only finish a week before my test. I feel that starting a new qbank that close is useless and will probably stress me out, since I've already done Rx all that's left would be Kaplan or AMBOSS, both of which I know are harder and would probably be a hit to my confidence that close to test day. But, I definitely want to keep doing questions right until my test because it's like exercise for my brain, so I don't want to finish a week out and then have nothing to do. I feel that this schedule will also let me have enough time to do some content review, which I haven't been able to do thus far. Pretty much reworked my schedule for 10-12 hour days, just accepted that it has to be done for the next month if I want to get everything I want done.
Thats the best schedule then. taking care of yourself while getting **** done
You'll crush it with this method. Number of unique/new questions completed is the key to high scores, so I 100% think this will work well for you. However, one thing that you could do is I know you said 120 is too much (which I agree with completely) but I would consider doing 80 questions per day but then another 40 block of your incorrects reviewing them is MUCH quicker (less than half the time it takes to review new questions). That way if you start doing this now you'll have seen your incorrects and new questions
This sounds like a good idea, I'll see if I can give it a try.
Yeah lol step loves pelvic repro anatomy crap. They also are obsessed with the internal iliac vessels ("ligating which of the following arteries would stop the bleeding of this post-partum hemorrhage blah blah"....internal iliacs everytime)
I got it wrong too! On one of the NBMEs (I won't say which one as to not spoil). Then I saw it on UWorld, then again on UWorld and then 2x on Kaplan lol. Never getting that one wrong again
Congrats! How did it feel compared to the other new NBMEs? I literally hated 21
Do you think it's worth it to review all the muscles of the perineum etc? This powerpoint has things on the superficial/deep perineal pouch.
I'm sure plenty of people will disagree with my thoughts, but I found it to feel less super confusing/obscure than 18 or 20. Plenty of short question stems. More like UWorld than 18 or 20 were but still ...not like UWorld. Some of the concepts were definitely things I have never been asked about and they required some educated or complete conjecture. Though, that has happened with every NBME moreso than in UWorld.
Definitely not lol thank God that would be a giant waste of time. Anatomy is my strongest subject and I can honestly say memorizing and reviewing muscles is definitely not important. Clinically oriented anatomy is. I would never recommend reading the explanations of the other answer choices in an anatomy question if they are names of muscles or nerves and their attachments crazy crazy low yield. if you can think about the anatomy in a clinically oriented way then that is what Step is looking for. Memorizing attachments, muscles and nerves is for PT students and surgical residents
Bro thank God you posted this. I'll probably set aside the rest of the week to study this very picture
Sounds a lot like an NBME to me dude haha
That was me today haha i got sub 210.
UWorld and NBME are worlds apart. UWorld rewards overthinking, NBME absolutely does not. UWorld also isn't nearly as vague as NBME. You have to assume so much on NBMEs to get their questions correct. Good thing real deal is more like UW
22 isn't bad. Highest correlation on reddit predictor (.62). My buddy took 22 yesterday he got a 239 and his UW % corrrect is 75% (80th %ile) to give you an idea. My guess is that is underpredicts by only 5 points or so
Amazing idea. Don't even bother with any more of them youre right you can't learn from them at all. I literally am doing the same thing as you except I am going to take NBME 18 and 24 since I've only done 1 NBME so far back in March
I've been struggling with this forever. I've done 16 and 21 and will also do 18, but I constantly go back and forth between not wanting to do anymore. I've read opinions from high scorers going both ways, so who knows.
It also seems like the curve is more harsh. I went back and my percentage was 65%? haha oh well
New questions always better than re-doing unless they are your UWorld incorrects. Do amboss
haha all love
