Are there any score correlations between uworld average and predicted step 1 score? I realize there is no guarantees for step 1 performance, but with what kind of uworld average would you feel confident walking into step 1?
What does an average of lets say 60% on first pass translate to?
I won't put too much weight on u-world percentages... started out at about 79% average for the 1st 10 sets of 46 timed, random; then my percentages dipped down to upper 60s... then now I'm just fluctuating (upper 60s, to low 80s)...
currently at about -75%... with about 30% done (started last Friday)...
230 on school administered CBSE prior to dedicated study period, 235 on NBME 1 a week into study period; and I just took an offline NBME12 today and managed to get 80% (which I guess is about ~220 🙁 )...so my opinion is that the u-world percentages really don't mean that much - NBME scores at what actually matters.
There are a lot of gimme questions on the actual NBME that I seem to miss - and it's not like I forgot the info or something - some I feel like I hadn't seen before... so who knows.... I still got 4wks left, so I'll see how I can creep up out of 230 range
I'd agree don't put too much on UW scores.
I'm another one who's UW % don't correlate well to the NBMEs. I'm sitting at 68% with nearly all of my recent ones being in the 70s (few 60s few 80s) and scoring ~220 on the NBMEs
I'd agree don't put too much on UW scores.
I'm another one who's UW % don't correlate well to the NBMEs. I'm sitting at 68% with nearly all of my recent ones being in the 70s (few 60s few 80s) and scoring ~220 on the NBMEs
Yeah, working on it. Outside of select sections though I feel like I know what it says before I read it, it's been a few weeks since my last NBME but my UW scores haven't moved even though I've digested 1.5 more passes of FA.
Just gotta keep on pushing and hope it all works out.
I'd agree don't put too much on UW scores.
I'm another one who's UW % don't correlate well to the NBMEs. I'm sitting at 68% with nearly all of my recent ones being in the 70s (few 60s few 80s) and scoring ~220 on the NBMEs
Well I usually only comment on stuff I know really well, I would say 1/3 of the stuff I'm probably in the ~250ish knowledge, 1/3 220ish, and 1/3 in the low 200s Embryo and Biochem for sure (DO schools are really bad about biochem and on top of that I go to a PBL school which makes that worse, and I didn't have UG biochem).
Additionally I do suffer a little from the "overthinking" bug. Like on NBME 7 with the spinal cord section where it says "right", I swore it was left because that's how I'd always seen them labeled, like a CT.
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