Step I question regarding NBME's CBSSA

[daisygirl]

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For those who have completed them-

Did you think there was a profound difference between the two that are offered? I completed the first one (form 1) tonight- my score sucked. However, I'm not too perturbed since I have three weeks left.

I'm wondering if Form 2 is vastly different from Form 1 in terms of relative difficulty. My hair may fall out if my score goes down on Form 2 😱

 

[EctopicFetus]

I did both of them. Similar IMO I did better on the second one. Could be that there were just more questions I knew.

 

[Stinger86]

For those who have completed them-

Did you think there was a profound difference between the two that are offered? I completed the first one (form 1) tonight- my score sucked. However, I'm not too perturbed since I have three weeks left.

I'm wondering if Form 2 is vastly different from Form 1 in terms of relative difficulty. My hair may fall out if my score goes down on Form 2 😱

I felt the A form was easier than the B form. There was one block on the B form that had me cussing out loud because of some ridiculously detailed questions, but fortunately the other three blocks weren't so bad.
My weaknesses on the form A were heme/lymph and renal/urinary, but on form B those categories were strengths and my weakness became nutrition. Who knows.

 

[jaeida8]

I thought that form B was easier. I felt like there were more "classic" path questions on it. A lot of the drugs they asked about seemed like the big ones with classic side effects.

 

[daisygirl]

Thanks everyone. I scored a 440 on form 1/a. Hopefully I can hit the mean on the second. Ohhhh, all I want is the mean on this stupid test- I just want to finish second year and be done with it 😎 .