What % questions you had absolutely no idea?

[The Angriest Bird]

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I have a question for those who've taken it and done well (roughly defined as 230+).

What % of the questions that you had absolutely no idea or very vague clues, which forced you to make a hopefully-educated-guess?

 

[lankysudanese]

on the real thing, ~5%.
on NBMEs - depended on how far along i was in my prep (started with 10% but by the end, was closer to 5%).

 

[anon-y-mouse]

I have a question for those who've taken it and done well (roughly defined as 230+).

What % of the questions that you had absolutely no idea or very vague clues, which forced you to make a hopefully-educated-guess?

2-3 every block required an educated guess. at least for me. so that's about 5%.

 

[DwyaneWade]

Hard to gauge.

I will say I had to review 10-15% of the questions at least 2-3x to pick an answer (often an educational guess).

 

[mudphudwannabe]

I'd say 5% or less were real head scratchers -- obscure topics or the answers didn't make sense. Another 10-20% were varying degrees of educated guesses - kind of depends what you consider a guess. Sometimes I could narrow it down to 2 choices, but had a hard time choosing between them..other times I could only rule out 1 of 5 answer choices. Overall, for most questions I had some clue about the answer, but I was probably only truly confident about maybe 50% of my answers. It's important to not let this rattle you - it's just the nature of this thing. (unfortunately) 🙄

 

[emlopez2]

About 5 questions per block had to take a guess. Another 10-15 seemed difficult and required some extra thinking and uncertainty.

 

[BrisketAttack]

About 5 questions per block had to take a guess. Another 10-15 seemed difficult and required some extra thinking and uncertainty.

That sounds about right.

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

About 5% for "Wow I have no idea what this question is asking" moving up to 10% if you're like "I dunno but this COULD be right"

 

[samnite]

About 5 questions per block had to take a guess. Another 10-15 seemed difficult and required some extra thinking and uncertainty.

x2

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

About 5 questions per block had to take a guess. Another 10-15 seemed difficult and required some extra thinking and uncertainty.

Agree with this as well.