What to Believe?

[hothause]

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Hi all. I just finished both the World Self Assessment and NBME Form 2 for Step2CK. I don't think the scores could be further apart!

Prior to studying, NBME Form 4 showed a 224.
Two weeks in, a dismal 217 from World's self assessment
Then, shortly thereafter, a 248 on NBME Form 2.

Which should I believe???

 

[kemper6036]

Hi all. I just finished both the World Self Assessment and NBME Form 2 for Step2CK. I don't think the scores could be further apart!

Prior to studying, NBME Form 4 showed a 224.
Two weeks in, a dismal 217 from World's self assessment
Then, shortly thereafter, a 248 on NBME Form 2.

Which should I believe???

you can't really say for sure since you took each at a different point in your studying. i felt that the uworld assessment was pretty tough and it under estimated my score by about 15 points.

the fact that you improved 24 points after some studying should indicate that you must be doing something right.

 

[kazuma]

you can't really say for sure since you took each at a different point in your studying. i felt that the uworld assessment was pretty tough and it under estimated my score by about 15 points.

the fact that you improved 24 points after some studying should indicate that you must be doing something right.

I agree, it's tough to say. Your estimate of the UW assessment sounds similar to what I noticed. I expected to be a good 15 points higher at the time I took the UWSA. However, I haven't taken any NBME's or step 2 yet, so I don't have a good idea where my actual scores will fall.

 

[markglt]

form 2 predicted my score with in 1 point.
form 4 was the hardest..it put me something like 15 points below my real exam score.
ur ready and good to go👍

 

[hothause]

Thanks guys. I guess I'm just confused because there was such a discrepancy between the World assessment and NBME Form 2. I took them the same day! (after freaking out about the World thing). I dunno what it was, but with the world questions I was guessing a lot especially on the first half and with the NBME form I was able to say "it's this" most of the time before looking at the answer choices.

 

[markglt]

nbme writes the usmle, not uw.