Reviewing your NBME exams

[Solarium]

Is it worth the time to actually look up the wrong questions for NBME yourself, after you've taken the test? There are answers around and you can definitely find the forms to download to see the questions you've done. However, it may take forever to find the reason for the right answers yourself, as opposed to just spending more time on UW or Kaplan where there are already explanations. What's the general consensus here?

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[1nycdoc8]

Is it worth the time to actually look up the wrong questions for NBME yourself, after you've taken the test? There are answers around and you can definitely find the forms to download to see the questions you've done. However, it may take forever to find the reason for the right answers yourself, as opposed to just spending more time on UW or Kaplan where there are already explanations. What's the general consensus here?

1) There are definitely a number of repeats from NBME 7 possibly 6... possibly the earlier ones that I took, can't say for sure.

2) This is what I did: Take the test in untimed mode w/e it's called where you have 4 hours to do a block... BUT time yourself so you have that PRESSURE of facing the clock. Give yourself an hour or w/e it is to do the questions but MARK all the things you're not sure of

3) jot down (or screen capture w/e) the things you marked to review for later

4) then move onto the next block and repeat again

just find the answers to the things you marked. I would still pay the extra amount for the extended review for 6 and 7 where you only get the questions you got wrong. you'd be surprised by some of your mistakes and you will learn hopefully not to make them on the real exam.

some people want to try to simulate real day conditions with these assesments but w/e it's not really necessary to do that other than forcing yourself a time limit for each block. use the nbme's as a real learning tool, not just for the # it gives back at ya in the end. I will say however, that doing 7 blocks is definitely different than doing 4. What helped for me was taking a break after every block after the 4th one. good luck