Power rankings of practice tests

[dbeast]

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I'm gonna most certainly not take every practice test out there, but I definitely want to take a few. Any recommended choices/order in which to take them? Save the newest ones for last? Also this includes a subscription to UWorld (obviously), how do their assessments stack up? I know you don't get to see answers for NBME's but do you see them in the UWorld? Muchas garcias!

EDIT: currently 6-7 weeks out from test date.

 

[NickNaylor]

The general consensus from the 2013 seems to be to do them in increasing order, with 13 and 15 last. I have no idea what that's based off of, but that's what people seem to say.

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[preDoGuy24]

I'm gonna most certainly not take every practice test out there, but I definitely want to take a few. Any recommended choices/order in which to take them? Save the newest ones for last? Also this includes a subscription to UWorld (obviously), how do their assessments stack up? I know you don't get to see answers for NBME's but do you see them in the UWorld? Muchas garcias!

EDIT: currently 6-7 weeks out from test date.

Second this question, was thinking of starting with a UWSA, then my "offline" nbme's and saving a few 1-2 of the newer ones to take online in a few months closer to test date? Any opinions?

 

[dbeast]

The general consensus from the 2013 seems to be to do them in increasing order, with 13 and 15 last. I have no idea what that's based off of, but that's what people seem to say.

Sent from my Nexus 7

Thx dood. When's your test?

 

[NickNaylor]

Thx dood. When's your test?

May 3rd.

Sent from my Nexus 7

 

[CDI]

I'd say do earlier forms as you nail FA early on. Then move on to the latter ones as you get used to the timing & length of UW. How many you do...up to you.

 

[JJMrK]

The NBME practice exams are old test questions; the higher numbered ones are newer and therefore more representative of the current test. So if you only take 4, take the 4 newest ones. The exact order doesn't matter.

The UW tests are good but really just as a way to see more UW qs IMO. Not really representative of the test, and the curve is too generous. The difference is that UW tries to make each and every question really difficult, but then rewards you at the end with a great score if you missed some. On the real thing (and the NBMEs more so than UW) the questions are typically more straight-forward, but you can't miss as many to get the same type of score.

 

[MLT2MT2DO]

The NBME practice exams are old test questions; the higher numbered ones are newer and therefore more representative of the current test. So if you only take 4, take the 4 newest ones. The exact order doesn't matter.

The UW tests are good but really just as a way to see more UW qs IMO. Not really representative of the test, and the curve is too generous. The difference is that UW tries to make each and every question really difficult, but then rewards you at the end with a great score if you missed some. On the real thing (and the NBMEs more so than UW) the questions are typically more straight-forward, but you can't miss as many to get the same type of score.

I found the cbbsa given this year to be very difficult with a generous curve. I missed a ton, pretty much every calculation question. I'm not sure if there is a shift but I sure hope so, I still make too many stupid mistakes which hurts a lot more with a nonforgiving curve.