USMLE Rx--do they judge the difficulty correctly?

[ChessMaster3000]

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Hey guys, just got Rx, and was a little confused about the "easy" "medium" "hard" designations on the questions. It seems a lot of the easy questions are rather hard and vice versa Just wondering if this has been brought up in the past (that they don't code the difficulty of their questions accurately) or if I might be delusional.

 

[Modeselektor]

Everything about that qbank is "off". Just do it for the FA review and the couple tidbits

Aparantley everyone knows IQ tests and freudian stages but people get stumped that S. Aureus causes endocarditis. Ignore the stats, etc.

 

[ChessMaster3000]

Yeah, some of the questions that I thought were super easy only 22% of the students got right--no way that is actually true (like, I should not be in that 22% haha)

 

[Modeselektor]

its worse when you get hit in the face by some left field question and the stats say 80% got it right. hahaha

 

[Lydian]

I got a question yesterday where I ddx'd progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, (thus picking JC virus).

I was real proud to see I chose the right answer and only 3% of people chose that answer, most people picked HSV 🙂

 

[001100010010011]

I don't think they do. I started marking the easy questions too instead of just the medium/hard ones.

 

[Dharma]

I got a question yesterday where I ddx'd progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, (thus picking JC virus).

I was real proud to see I chose the right answer and only 3% of people chose that answer, most people picked HSV 🙂

great post

 

[Phloston]

USMLE Rx is a phenomenal QBank and everyone should do it.

But, yeah, the stats are totally off.