Weird % correct's

[Apoplexy__]

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Spoiler alert (but try and minimize the spoilers).

This thread is for discussing those Q's with surprising % correct's -- either oddly high or low.

Let's start off with this tazobactam Q I got. Only 66% of people knew what tazobactam did. The Q was 1-step logic, the answer choices weren't veiled in complex terminology. The next highest % answer choice was people thinking it increased the entry of penicillins into bacteria. What?

Then I get this Q where you had to know that presbyopia can cancel out myopia, resulting in improved vision with age. 63% right. How the hell is that roughly as easy as knowing what tazobactam does?

 

[dyspareunia]

I did a question on Rx where only ~25% knew what prevented polyspermy in the egg-sperm dance (calcium influx).

 

[swoopyswoop]

what about the random questions with 100% getting the correct answer? i assume that's just a glitch because there's no way.

 

[dyspareunia]

what about the random questions with 100% getting the correct answer? i assume that's just a glitch because there's no way.

Maybe it's a brand new question that only a few people have seen.

 

[Missorleans]

what about the random questions with 100% getting the correct answer? i assume that's just a glitch because there's no way.

They don't have stats for those questions yet, so it just says 100%

 

[swoopyswoop]

good, because nothing destroys your confidence like getting a question wrong when 100% of people somehow got it right...

 

[Donald Juan]

I don't think 66% on any pharmaceutical mechanism question is strange...it's right at average. I'm ecstatic if I'm scoring at average in pharm.

The ones that surprise me are the questions that are about some basic genetics or enzyme principles that have 50% correct because they seem like freebies. Then I have to remember that not everyone in med school was a bio major in undergrad and that maybe all those classes did help me some in med school.

 

[lp430]

I had a micro question today on Rx that 830% got correct, that's right, 830%.
One of the wrong answers was also picked by 100% of people. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's a glitch.

 

[ChessMaster3000]

If youre referring to Rx questions, the percentages are notoriously off.

 

[Frozengrapes]

what about the random questions with 100% getting the correct answer? i assume that's just a glitch because there's no way.

So far, the only questions I've seen people get 100% right on have been the ethics questions that are blatantly obvious. Like a patient going in for a procedure asking you to pray with them, should you tell them their god isn't real, tell them praying isn't scientifically proven to help, send them to another doctor, or wish them the best?