Step II distribution

[wannabeskibum]

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I am scheduled to take step II in a few weeks and was wondering if anyone had an idea on the distribution of the test, Peds, OB, Surgery, Psychiatry.

Obviously Medicine would have the most Q's but what would be next an so forth.
Any ideas

 

[SailCrazy]

I've heard from a couple of people that there was a little more OB than they'd expected, but I don't know what % that was.

 

[JaSam]

I have to agree with sailcrazy,

I had quite a bit of OB/GYN on my step 2 ck which I took back in July 22nd.

but is the question distribution similar to what USMLEworld makes it seem like? Like obg got 200 some odd questions out of 2000 and so that means you can expect 1/10 of the questions from obg? And then there was like 1/10 from peds, 1/10 from psych and 1/20 from neurology? thanks.

 

[tfom08]

but is the question distribution similar to what USMLEworld makes it seem like? Like obg got 200 some odd questions out of 2000 and so that means you can expect 1/10 of the questions from obg? And then there was like 1/10 from peds, 1/10 from psych and 1/20 from neurology? thanks.

I doubt anyone will remember exactly and it probably varies from test to test. Medicine is most important; OB/Gyn, surg, peds are next; neurology, psych, epidemiology are somewhat less important but you will definitely see enough of each topic that if you aren't well prepared for it, it will feel like your whole test was made up of the subject you didn't know.

 

[Scaredshizzles]

but is the question distribution similar to what USMLEworld makes it seem like? Like obg got 200 some odd questions out of 2000 and so that means you can expect 1/10 of the questions from obg? And then there was like 1/10 from peds, 1/10 from psych and 1/20 from neurology? thanks.

World is a representative sample EXCEPT that there is too high a percentage of internal medicine....I would think medicine is about 40-50% the exam or so on most forms, and the other subjects are more or less in the proportions of world...Obgyn, Peds, and Psych all pretty much have a similar number of questions, so that on any given form one of these topics may be a little overrepresented...On mine I think it was peds, others say obgyn. I think pure surgery related questions might be the least represented, but a fair number of diagnoses have a surgical aspect and so the material overlaps mbetween internal medicine and surgery...Even the surgery shelf exam does not have that many pure surgery questions that could not be asked in a different subject.

 

[JaSam]

World is a representative sample EXCEPT that there is too high a percentage of internal medicine....I would think medicine is about 40-50% the exam or so on most forms, and the other subjects are more or less in the proportions of world...Obgyn, Peds, and Psych all pretty much have a similar number of questions, so that on any given form one of these topics may be a little overrepresented...On mine I think it was peds, others say obgyn. I think pure surgery related questions might be the least represented, but a fair number of diagnoses have a surgical aspect and so the material overlaps mbetween internal medicine and surgery...Even the surgery shelf exam does not have that many pure surgery questions that could not be asked in a different subject.

thank you, that was the best answer and you address all of the issues. I guess its time to study up on the ob and peds and psych.