Uworld Question Distribution

[bawer234]

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Would it be an accurate assumption to say that the number of questions for any given subject in Uworld correlates to the percentage of questions we might see on a STEP 1 exam?

For example, if there are 300+ UWorld questions for Neuro and 100 questions for Renal is it fair to assume that, roughly, we should see about 3 neuro questions for every 1 renal on the STEP 1 exam?

Thanks

 

[jmcappleby]

Would it be an accurate assumption to say that the number of questions for any given subject in Uworld correlates to the percentage of questions we might see on a STEP 1 exam?

For example, if there are 300+ UWorld questions for Neuro and 100 questions for Renal is it fair to assume that, roughly, we should see about 3 neuro questions for every 1 renal on the STEP 1 exam?

Thanks

I think the division is more accurate along subjects than systems. i.e. the breakdown of path/pharm/anatomy etc. is probably accurate. But I don't think you can necessarily say that the systems breakdown is very representative... I've read about a lot of people who've said renal was very highly represented on theirs... could just be selective memory though. 🙂

 

[HTxFrog]

I feel like UWorld is heavy on some stuff like Biochem. that they know people are bad at b/c it helps you get more practice with it. Then again I might just feel like its heavy on biochem b/c I remember the ones I think are hard more than the easy ones

 

[windansea]

Is it safe to assume that if it's not in world it won't be on the real deal? Reason being is that I just finished doing all of the 200 micro questions and I didn't get one helminth type of question.

 

[illixir]

No assumptions can be drawn about how much you'll get from a certain category on the real thing. Every individual test is different and some people can have lots of anatomy and no pharm while another person could have no anatomy. The number of questions for a category in uworld probably just reflects the amount of testable material in a given subject. You could maybe use it for rough generalizations of where you should spend your relative time though.

There will without a doubt be questions on the real thing not in uworld, the real thing often has a couple questions that aren't in any sources and more then if only trying to exclude uw. There won't be that many though.

 

[greg1184]

I wonder if the test writers look at the study materials we use, just to figure out questions they can ask that go beyond them. I am sure they use a combination of hard and easy questions to make a distribution.