USMLE World Path

[peace84]

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i've been using World for a few weeks and i've done a few hundred questions. i always click to include all main divisions and all sub divisions, but for some reason, i haven't gotten any pathology questions. i've had questions from all other subjects, but none from path. does anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it? thanks

 

[indo]

you haven't had any questions involving diseases?

 

[peace84]

yeah i've had questions involving diseases, but not from the path category. it says there are 610 total path questions, and when i create a test using unused questions, the number doesn't change...meaning there are still 610 path questions left because it's not putting any into my tests.

 

[BrazilianDoc]

have you e-mailed them. maybe do a 10 question from path and see if it changes...

 

[indo]

oh i see what you're saying. that is weird.

When you go from All to Unused do any of the question numbers change?

 

[It'sElectric]

I'm not having quite the same problem, but I've only gone through 25 of the questions from the path category, and I've done a good 800 or so questions. Also interesting, I've completely used up behavioral sciences, biostats, embryo, genetics, histology, and immuno...yet I have roughly 60% of my questions left.

 

[BAM!]

you haven't had any questions involving diseases?

smart alec!

 

[78222]

I had the same problem. It seemed like at first I wasn't getting any Path questions so at the end I had virtually nothing but path questions.

 

[myry]

Maybe that's the way they designed it if you choose random questions. Do all the other subjects in the beginning but then keep most of the path questions for the end. That would make sense in theory. Path ties everything else together, and that way the questions for the subject that is the highest yield for Step 1 is the freshest in your mind before you take Step 1. Just a thought😕

 

[DragonWell]

Maybe that's the way they designed it if you choose random questions. Do all the other subjects in the beginning but then keep most of the path questions for the end. That would make sense in theory. Path ties everything else together, and that way the questions for the subject that is the highest yield for Step 1 is the freshest in your mind before you take Step 1. Just a thought😕

If that is the case, then calling it "random" is a bit of a misnomer. ??

 

[myry]

it's still random for you as you're not choosing certain subjects. they might have a technique in mixing in the subjects instead of just a computer picking questions--truly random.

I don't know...how else, though, could this be explained for multiple people?

 

[BSEMD]

That's how my experience was as well...at first, no path at all. I finished all the questions, and it got path heavy towards the end of the question bank. Probably their idea of how you need to prepare for the exam (since the questions are designed to be a learning tool, not a strict "how am I doing" benchmarking tool).

 

[InternationlDoc]

Had 8 straight embryology questions!! followed by 5 histology questions

UWorld has already exhausted histo and 80% of embryology on my profile

yep. I **** you not. Doesn't really look like random to me. May be they should borrow kaplan's random question generator ... I mean really a string*rand(1,n) command in C++ is better than what it generates

or may be as all you guys postulate, its on purpose?

 

[agranulocytosis]

I've used up 650 questions so far and I've had almost 200 path q's, 40 pathophys, and 50 phys, about 120 pharm and 60 micro. Seems pretty random for me.