On the Real exam, how many people took educated guess on each block,30%?,50%?

[Arhat]

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Man, I am taking step one on thursday and it feel like I am taking about 40-50% educated guess. I had 4 weeks to study and have finish all the q bank questions avg 55-60% correct.

I reaally hope I don't have to take this exam over again.

 

[anesthesiarocks]

Man, I am taking step one on thursday and it feel like I am taking about 40-50% educated guess. I had 4 weeks to study and have finish all the q bank questions avg 55-60% correct.

I reaally hope I don't have to take this exam over again.

if you're averaging 55-60% on qbank, it's going to be close....also, if you're only scoring 55%+ then you're taking "guesses" on more than 40-50% of the questions. IOW you're not scoring 55% if you know 50-60% of the questions stone cold. On some of those questions you can't be totally sure on or you'd be in the 70s.

On the test what % did I guess on? I knew 30-32 in each block stone cold(so 60%), and then of the other 40% I'd say on 1/3 of those I had it narrowed down to 2 and was leaning one way, on another 1/3 I could eliminate 2 or 3 choices but really was guessing at the other 2 or 3, and then 1/3 of the 40% I didn't know(about 6 questions in each block) I just really didn't know and wasn't really able to make an educated guess on. I'm expected a 220-230.

I didn't spend a lot of time doing practice questions or nbme's because I didn't have the patience to actually learn from them. I'd do a set of questions(like 15 at a time) here and there just to make sure I'm doing ok, but doing questions isn't for everyone. Questions are really only a good idea if you're going to spend a lot of time reading the answers and trying to learn from them. I'd rather just spend time memorizing stuff and going over concepts with myself....of course for people who want to score really high(>240) I'd say actually doing lots of practice questions is important. But I'd say total I did maybe 300 questions.....

also one thing about the real test is that it seems like there were more "gimmes" that you were totally sure of on the real test compared to kaplan qbank. On kaplan qbank often(in the limited questions I did) I could only be sure I got it right on about 50% of the questions, and on the real test it was more like 60-62%.