penndoc
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Salutations.........
With my exam 1.5 months away, which qbank should i get? Kaplan or usmleworld? I heard that the latter is harder and from what I've garnered from the score correlations usmleworld is worth it. Or is Kaplan better...
I'm currently revising my kaplan notes and plan on doing the simulated in a couple of weeks....suggestions? Criticism? Diatribes?................Limericks? All are welcome.
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| CruiseMissile
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I don't have any limericks, but I will present you with the following:
Is money an object? If no, go with both, but make sure you do Kaplan first. If yes, do USMLE-world only.
And good luck. :-)
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| bose
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I agree with CruiseMissile. UW is closest to the way questions are asked on the real exam. I took my exam yesterday and felt that Kaplan was not anywhere near. But if money isn't a problem, it is always better to do both. But if you have to choose any one, choose UW.
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| r753_2000
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bose, what was your exam like? what type of questions did you get?
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| bose
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I just went on reading the questions and picked an answer that seemed right. Hope I picked the right one. I am now so much scared of the results. Everything is so vague at this time.
It is very difficult to analyze if I did well or not.
Anyway, as everybody said, the exam is definitely doable, I managed to save 25 minutes break time for the last 2 blocks which helped me refresh my mind. I took a 3-5 minute break after each and every block with a 15 minute lunch break.
The questions seemed longer in general (at one point in time I literally sat down counting the lines of one Psych Q - 18 lines). But the test window is smaller than the actual computer screen size, so probably that increased the number of lines compared to UW. Maybe that was my assumption. Timing was never a problem, but 3rd block I had to hurry though.
I got a lot of IM, Pediatrics questions. Bruton's XLA was asked thrice. For whatever reasons USMLE folks seem to love Immunology. I got very few preventive, very few vaccines. EKGs were three - one A.Fib, one MI and the other I have no idea, just guessed from the question stem. Biostatistics were 4-5 questions. One was tough, the rest were easy. About 4-5 questions were directly from Step 1. One of them, a MRI image with a lesion, they asked what is the location of the lesion. Another, a gram stain slide with some microbes, they asked what it is. Because I did not yet take Step 1, I guessed based on the question stem and history.
Again as everybody knows it, UW is the closest among the bunch to the real exam. Kaplan QBank is a far cry.
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