scored a little higher (237), others were low 230s, but I felt like I failed, it was so vague.
Some centers will not tell you your seat number though
So i have read several articles on going back to basics and doing so for longer than 2-3 weeks can cause your scores to drop. I would not stop doing questions for sake of content review. Keep up the questions-they are king. My test is July 14 shooting for 250+ as well and what im doing is 60 questions per day 5 days per week then one day per week doing content review only with no questions. this way i dont stop with questions and I get content review on my weaknesses weekly. I will do this until late may and then ramp up to 100 questions per day 6 days per week for 6-7 weeks. My advice is to find ur weaknesses on UW (the percentiles for each subject on the breakdown) and hit those. No need to rip all BnB just ur weak subjects. Deliberate practice on ur weaknesses until ur test date plus more questions youll pop a 270 man. Also what percent did u start UW at? Im half way thru with 75%ile but my goal is 83-85%ile which is what youre at. Is it possible to climb to that by time I finish u think?
How did you do the NBMEs?
The BnB questions are ok but I wouldn't use them in place of actual Step 1 qbank questions. They aren't your typical qbank questions they are basically just to see if you got anything out of Dr. Ryans lecture. They are hard but they aren't vignette qbank style
Yes home proctoring would be a disaster. Probably choose the buildings that are largest and newest
Bro u still got 2000+ UW questions to go yet. No doubt youll rip 240+ on real deal. You also still have 5 weeks thats a ton of time. Keep grindin brother
i would highly suggest u finish uworld in like 2-2.5 weeks so u have the rest of the time for other exams+going over your weak areas.
Yo man I think doing UW 3x is honestly time you could be spending doing questions youve never seen before! Just my 2 cents- There are studies with strong evidence supporting the fact that new questions are superior to repeating questions. UW even 2x isn't as good as doing UW 1x plus Kaplan/Amboss 1x. People that do UW more than 2x end up coming out of the actual thing saying "omg it was nothing like the exam" because they were so used to doing the same questions they had seen 100x despite UW actually being the closest to the real thing than anything else (their brain just wasn't used to change). The more you simulate the unknown the better off you will be imho. Think of it as if you are an NBA player practicing for the NBA finals all year-you are going to have a lot of unexpected things come up during gameplay, so if you practice like prepping for these unexpected occurrences you are going to be able to handle them much better than others. This is what Michael Jordan did and why his teammates (and opponents) said was part of why he was so damn good. They all used to make fun of him for going "playoff game hard" in practice and he told them years down the line he practiced this way so that during the game he was always ready for the unknown and was able to outperform anyone under pressure. If it was me I would think about doing another bank on top of UW instead. If not no worries lol just figured id share
Id take one within the next 2 weeks to get a baseline. I took NBME 21 as a baseline just because it is hard but also not as hard or unfair as NBME 20 lol. The new NBMEs (20-24) are insanely underpredictive but they kind of light a fire under your ass. Leave NBME 16 for closer to test day since its very predictive. Honestly you are good with any of them really other than 20 (crapshoot) and 16 (too good to do this far out)
Lol whoops thats my bad bro! It is NBME 18
Mid 70s is solid man. If you are consistently hitting mid 70s I agree with @NotSoObvious its really good
Just realized i'm on the step 1 forum and i'm taking step 2 haha.
15-20 i heard
Damn dude harder than UW? Ive heard a lot of people say it was easier or just as hard but never harder and not a single person said as hard as NBMEs. If its harder than UW i'll most likely have a panic attack lol
+1. The "hard" questions for me were all extremely straightforward flashcard factoids that I simply didnt know, like "which CYP subfamily metabolizes Drug X"
You did say several posts back you thought overall real thing was slightly easier than UW right?
I think I called it "more straightforward" because it was actually harder for me, lots of factoids I simply hadn't memorized. But for friends who had committed Zanki to memory, it was a breeze. Every single one of them scored 260-270.
Damn that sounds nothing like Step to me lol Step is no longer the factoid exam it once was in the 2000s. I guess thats one exam on one day but thats Interesting
By design, the vast majority of questions are a slam dunk that any American physician who is safe to practice medicine should be able to get right to be licensed. Remember, our absolutely bottom of the barrel scores who barely passed are still getting ~70% right.
I personally think number of questions done and reviewed is superior to anki. Every single high scorer I personally know never touched anki but did do at least 7000 unique questions by the time they took the exam. Some did 10K. My step 1 tutor personally did 7500 himself and he swears by this theory. Its not that anki is bad its that its not required to get a high score
