Step 2 Veterans - help me out, please.

[longwoodguy]

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Hey-

I've just started my studies for Step 2 and I'm planning to take it in ~4 weeks. So far, i'm using NMS question book for Step2 and Kaplan QBank.

Having done ~15% of Q-Bank so far, i've gotten 75% correct. I'm averaging ~70% on the NMS book so far.

Can anyone correlate their scores on either QBANK or NMS with their actual Step 2 scores? I'd be very interested to hear people's experiences as a way to guage roughly where I stand at the moment.

Thanks!
LG

 

[longwoodguy]

bump....anybody?

 

[Global Disrobal]

Hate to state it like this, but don't rely so much on correlations. You never know what the real scores of the people posting are, what their avg's meant, and how they're studying schedule differed from you.

For example: Avg Joe can take Qbank to study off of the answers and finish with a 60% by the end. Avg Jane can take Q-bank after a month of solid studying and get 80% and they both end up with 240 on the test. One can have a bad day on exam, one can get a bad block, one has previous clinical experience, one takes the exam mid 4th year vs late 3rd....see the logic?

Study, stick to your schedule, and don't change the dates. If you feel like with the 1/2 the questions your practicing with you have a good idea what is going on and can start thinking out the answer you're probably are on the right track!

Good luck with the Le Exam de Lucifer 🙂

 

[longwoodguy]

Obviously, correlations must be taken with a grain of salt. However, it is a reasonable question.

Of course people's studying techniques vary - but i'm just interested to know if anybody could say, "yeah I was scoring ~80% on qbank before the exam and ended up with a (insert score here) on the exam."

I don't plan to change my studying schedule but I would be curious to hear people's experiences on how their QBANK or NMS scores correlated with their step 2 scores.

Does that make sense?