When to take which NBMEs?

[suji0]

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Was just wondering for someone taking the exam in June (US med student, finish M2 year in May), at what dates should you take the NBMEs (provided you are willing to take as many as possible) and if there is a certain order one should take them in (like do 7 then do 13 then 4 or whatever i have no idea).

Thanks alot!

 

[suji0]

Anyone please haha

 

[Leonidis I]

check out phloston's pdf: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=977497

basically he did all the retired offline nbme's well before leadup to the test. then:

12 days out he did nbme 6
11 days out he did 7
10 days out he did the free 150
8 days out he did 13
6 days out he did 12
4 days out he did 11

however, in one of the q&a's he suggests to do one of the computer based ones outside of 6 weeks and i think this makes sense. you want to know where your baseline is before your dedicated prep.

i would take as many as you can with enough time to go over them and know the right answers and why they were right because they do repeat on the real deal:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showpost.php?p=12783601&postcount=2055

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=919120

 

[Goober11]

What about the early NBMEs in terms of repeats? My time is limited but if there seem to be some repeats on the earlier forms (1-4) I would be down to do them.