I am an oncologist, so I pretty much didn't study any oncology for the IM boards.
The average might be between 55-60% given that many (or most) go over UWorld 1..5-2x.
Fair, and also, the average time to do a question is 42 seconds??? WTF that's how long it takes me to read the damn question
You are doing extremely well, relax.
I am. I have not even finished MKSAP.
are you guys doing it per subject? or just all question?
I've heard that UWorld is much harder and the question stems are longer than the actual ABIM exam. I took Exam masters "Comprehensive Practice exam for internal medicine certification" test and that is supposed to be a fairly close approximation to the actual exam. The difference is shocking compared to UWorld. This cost about 70$ and was the only ABIM assessment exam I could find that wasn't attached to a qbank that was going to set me back hundreds.
How was your score on it compared to UWorld/MKSAP?
Did MKSAP throughout residency and my second run through was ~75%. But I don't really count this since I had seen all the questions before and remembered some of them.
I was told by a few that the EXAM is closer to MKSAP than Uworld. I hope that is true since I am not doing Uworld.
Your percentile in world is probably > 75%, so you are likely to get > 650 in the real thing
I'm only doing UWORLD lol.. trying to finish first pass. but that's what happens when you start fellowship and end residency with 5 months of inpatient time
If you are doing good (>= 60%) in Uworld, you will be fine. My friend who did Uworld first and then did mksap thought mksap was easy.
I just took the Exam Masters ABIM assessment test. Was there statistics for what the average score was on the practice exam?
If you did mainly uworld do you think that's adequate preparation?
I did a full pass of UWorld, redid wrong answers, and did most of MKSAP. I feel pretty good coming out of the exam today, but we'll see in a few months.
Congrats on being done.
Congrats on being done.
Just took it today, finished with plenty of time on all sections, including having to run to the bathroom as an unscheduled break middle of the first section due to too much coffee
Like in 3 months or so apparently,
I did both MKSAP and UWorld and honestly, thought MKSAP was a little overkill, UWorld was a bit more representative
Thanks! Honestly I thought UWorld was a little more representative in terms of question difficulty, but there were a fair number of questions that I only knew from seeing that material during residency or during my program's board review lectures. I can't guarantee you'll pass by only doing UWorld, but I thought it was a good representation of the question length and difficulty.
I finished with about 30 min to spare on each section and then went back through the entire section and quickly considered if I wanted to change any answers. I only ended up changing two or three. I think there's plenty of time; just don't let yourself use 10 minutes on a single question. If one stumps you, flag it for review, guess randomly, and come back to it later.
thank you for this
Does this include bio stats equations?
No, it is also on the tutorial on the ABIM website, so you can see everything it offers!
ur never taking them again because u dont need to as a specialist? or u are retiring? j/w
Because I'm a specialist and never have to take the general IM boards again. If they change their minds in the future and force the general IM board recert to keep subspecialty recert, THEN I'll be retiring.
