Step II QBook

[pillowhead]

Just wondering what kind of percentages people got when they did QBook (not QBank). I heard it was a good source but the questions don't really seem that hard after the first couple of blocks. Just wanted to make sure I'm not wasting my time.

 

[guy_incognito]

I didn't keep close tabs, but I think I was probably in the 70-80% range.

It depends on why you are doing questions...if you are doing them purely to review and learn, then it isn't only the ease of questions that matters, but also the quality of discussion given for the answer. To me, any sort of further exposure was helpful; I just found it more stimulating to do questions than reading a book.

 

[manning18]

QBook does have nice explanations and covers relevant topics, though the questions are not as hard. From the data I have seen, one would want to be around 65% on QBook to feel comfortable passing, 70% near the mean, while 75%+ should beat the mean.

 

[pillowhead]

thanks for the responses. welcome further input.

 

[guy_incognito]

I actually had collected some data from another forum, based off their preparation scores and actual step 2 scores. This was before I heard of the medfriends score estimator... However, medfriends doesn't have a Qbook correlation, so this may be helpful. Manning18, your estimates agree pretty closely to the correlations I found.

60 203
61 206
62 208
63 210
64 212
65 214
66 217
67 219
68 221
69 223
70 225
71 227
72 230
73 232
74 234
75 236
76 238
77 241
78 243
79 245
80 247
81 249
82 252
83 254
84 256
85 258
86 260
87 263
88 265
89 267
90 269
91 271
92 273
93 276
94 278
95 280
96 282
97 284
98 287
99 289
100 291

FYI: n = 52

 

[manning18]

The data I saw was on a different forum, though I did play with it a bit. If I remember correctly, the average was 75%/243.