I was just wondering does anyone know how well your doing on your 2nd pass of usmle world compare to the actual test....I'm going through it a 2nd time and the 1st time i think i averaged ~61% now im at like ~82. Is that the general trend for most people ? I'll admit about 95% of the questions seem new to me, but a handful i do remember. I think this time I'm understanding the questions a lot more and understand the concepts compared to the 1st time. What's the general trend for most people ?
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I was doing about 65-70% on my first pass and close to 90% my second time through. If you want a real ball buster do blocks of misses. Its kind of frustrating but i actually felt like i was learning more efficiently that way.
when you guys do your second pass are you just selecting all questions? or did you do the mark thing
I didn't leave many of them marked after I went through the explanations the first time. I usually either did 46q blocks of a specific system that I was working on or 46q blocks of random missed questions.
i didn't mark them either. now as i'm going through it i just select all questions but i get at least 4-5 repeats every single block, it's annoying. i do find that going over missed questions is a lot more humbling, since those beginning questions just seem way too easy especially with the number of repeats it tends to inflate my percentage.
I think my scores were similar to this. Quinone and I have the same brain AGAIN!
But I wasn't caring as much about the percentages as much as nailing the concepts. If I was going through in tutor mode and I got a question right but still felt shaky over the concept, I would change my answer to a wrong one so that it would show up again the next time I make a batch out of wrong answers. I know that my friends didn't like this idea because it discouraged them to not always get a high score, but I was able to deal with it. Not knowing a concept or thought process was much more of a concern.
I'm running through 2 nd pass uw in the next 5 days. I'm doing all timed 46 q blocks...have 1600 to go. Not really focusing on nbmes....could be a bad idea but I think focusing on my weaknesses the week before is better than trying to predict what I'll see next Wednesday. I hope I peak at the right time...that's what she said. Ha ha sorry I'm burnt out.
