Tougher step 2 CK?

[ThePianist]

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Anyone feel like the test period from July-Sept with STEP 2 CK scores coming out on Sept 16, 2015 was tougher or less forgiving. Just hearing so many stories of people scoring below their expected score or averages on self assessments/NBMEs.

 

[tantacles]

Anyone feel like the test period from July-Sept with STEP 2 CK scores coming out on Sept 16, 2015 was tougher or less forgiving. Just hearing so many stories of people scoring below their expected score or averages on self assessments/NBMEs.

Everyone takes the test literally once, so it's impossible to actually figure this out.

 

[FIREitUP]

Anyone feel like the test period from July-Sept with STEP 2 CK scores coming out on Sept 16, 2015 was tougher or less forgiving. Just hearing so many stories of people scoring below their expected score or averages on self assessments/NBMEs.

I didn't get the impression that many people are scoring under their averages. Either way, it seems that over the past couple years Step 2 Ck has evolved and become much more involved/complex while unfortunately keeping essentially the same questions (with few exceptions) and time per block.

 

[seminoma]

Anyone feel like the test period from July-Sept with STEP 2 CK scores coming out on Sept 16, 2015 was tougher or less forgiving. Just hearing so many stories of people scoring below their expected score or averages on self assessments/NBMEs.

Probably because SDN is full of crazies.

 

[guitarguy23]

Yeah, mine was pretty straightforward. I mean like 4-5 per section were random and impossible to narrow down but other than that, 90% was stuff I had seen before and had an idea about what was going on.

 

[Aren123]

Yeah mine was really tough, very different than uworld tbh. I also scored 10-15points below my averages
I also had a section with 20 questions for the entire hour, no ads or abstracts.
Not sure what to make of it but it is what it is I guess...

 

[HIppoCamp]

Not really. I did as well as I had expected. Which means virtually nothing in a thread with 5 responses thus far...

Also, it doesn't matter. You just need to do better than the other guy/gal. Clearly, there are norms established for the test scores, so there's truly no 'hard' test.

 

[Thrombophlebitis]

The IMG threads are going insane with so many failures being reported. They're even faxing ECFMG to complain, as if that would accomplish anything.