UWorld Improvement?

[hotchik]

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Just out of curiosity, how much improvement have you guys found in regards to your UWorld percentage from when you first started the qbank to when you completed/mostly completed it? For example, started in lower 60s, finished around mid/upper 70s?

I just think it might be nice to see the average improvement from using the qbank.

 

[ctusfinest]

im not sure about other people but my uworld scores jump around a lot. My test is still a month away but I started with 55s-60s about 2 weeks ago and in the past 5 days I'm have 2 in the 80s, 4 in the 60s, and 2 in the 70s

Just out of curiosity, how much improvement have you guys found in regards to your UWorld percentage from when you first started the qbank to when you completed/mostly completed it? For example, started in lower 60s, finished around mid/upper 70s?

I just think it might be nice to see the average improvement from using the qbank.

 

[PAGuyana]

How did you improve so quickly?

 

[lrkoehle]

im not sure about other people but my uworld scores jump around a lot. My test is still a month away but I started with 55s-60s about 2 weeks ago and in the past 5 days I'm have 2 in the 80s, 4 in the 60s, and 2 in the 70s

How's this for jumping around: today my scores on 3 blocks of 46, random questions were: 86, 58, and 84...I have no idea what happened with that 58, but my average is just under 80 without it.

For the OP, I am not that far into UW, but my scores in the past week have gone from mid 70's to around 80 (except that 58 😡). I did all of Kaplan before UW, and my averages started in mid-60's and went up to around 80 (max of 89) in the 2.5 weeks it took to do that qbank. I finished with an average of 72%. I think how quickly your scores go up depends on why you're missing questions. If you know the material, but aren't familiar with the way topics are being tested then getting comfortable with the style of step-I type quetsions will boost your scores pretty quickly. If you're just weak in certain areas, it may take longer as you shore up those weak spots.

 

[CrimsonMirage]

It fluctuates with every block. It's my second round of UW and I still have 50% blocks and 85% blocks. Depends on what time of day you do it...my morning blocks are always better b/c I'm putting in more effort.

Don't focus on the block percentage!! Focus on spending enough time on each missed question to learn from it. I'm actually glad for some questions I missed twice (on both rounds of UW) b/c those facts are now burned into memory 👍

 

[alternatego]

How's this for jumping around: today my scores on 3 blocks of 46, random questions were: 86, 58, and 84...I have no idea what happened with that 58, but my average is just under 80 without it.

For the OP, I am not that far into UW, but my scores in the past week have gone from mid 70's to around 80 (except that 58 😡). I did all of Kaplan before UW, and my averages started in mid-60's and went up to around 80 (max of 89) in the 2.5 weeks it took to do that qbank. I finished with an average of 72%. I think how quickly your scores go up depends on why you're missing questions. If you know the material, but aren't familiar with the way topics are being tested then getting comfortable with the style of step-I type quetsions will boost your scores pretty quickly. If you're just weak in certain areas, it may take longer as you shore up those weak spots.

Did you find Kaplan useful? I'm doing it right now, and will start UW once my 8 week dedicated study period begins, I hope Qbank will help me score higher in UW's random, timed blocks

 

[ctusfinest]

If you know the material, but aren't familiar with the way topics are being tested then getting comfortable with the style of step-I type quetsions will boost your scores pretty quickly. If you're just weak in certain areas, it may take longer as you shore up those weak spots.

completely agree, its a combination of these two things and getting the confidence to work through questions that seem impossible at first glance.