Question about Q bank for step 1

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Hi everyone,
I was browsing the kaplan website to register for Q bank, and saw that they offer two types: Integrated vignettes Q bank and "Q-bank." If anyone has any experience with these resources and could comment on what their recomendation is, I'd appreciate it.


thanks for your input.

 

[Janders]

Hi everyone,
I was browsing the kaplan website to register for Q bank, and saw that they offer two types: Integrated vignettes Q bank and "Q-bank." If anyone has any experience with these resources and could comment on what their recomendation is, I'd appreciate it.


thanks for your input.

You def. want Q-bank. Its the one everyone talks about. It is written in a manner similar to Step 1, with excellent explanations.

IV Qbank is set up as sets of vingettes. There is a long paragraph talking about a patient with a specific complaint, then 5 or so questions about said complaint. It does not mimic step 1 as accurately, but if you are dying for extra questions, it is there.

 

[electra]

The two Q banks refer to the basic sciences or more clinical vignette types of questions. If you choose to do both (that would be the ultimate in question training) you would only need the integrated for about a month. Those are not questions you want to go through again and again and again (there's no learning there). But they do look exactly like the test and are good practice for how to think about the test.

I used Q bank for both Steps and I thought it was a good resource.