Miradautas Vras
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Hello there fellas . My exams on 14th this month and I have finished 80 % of my kaplan qbank [ 2007 ] . My cumulative score is 70 % [ First time , 50 questions , timed ] and Only thing i have left and will finish before exams is some micro/immuno and few basic principals questions etc.
My individual organ systems [ cardio, respiratory . nervous etc] analysis runs around 61 - 82 % [ 80 crossed on nervous and respi ] lowest being [goddamnit] behaviour at 61 %, and all rest around 68 to 75%.
I am yet to take NBME s . I took kaplan q bank as a learning tool and i think i learned a LOT from it which might make me a better test taker than what the cumulative score shows me to be.
Question now. How do i interpret this thing? I mean lots of questions were " we are still gathering performance data for this question " and i have heard that the 2007 version has tremendous changes over the last one. What should i expect as my real score in the actual thing?
Also is NBME necessary? i mean if i score good in it its obviously a boost but say if i messed it up i'd be in unnecessary tension before hand.
Any guidance is welcome!
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| ShweHope99.9998
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Hi ,
Best is ask kaplan at their archieve . In old time like last yr . , 70% is getting decent good mark .
How much different the new Q 2007 in kap Q bank compare with last 1 or 2 yr ago ?
Any video , audio clip, any more of CT, MRI, radio images, pictures, histo patho slides with cannot solved by Q stems , how many more molecu biology weired Q ?
If all are " No " then, kap Q seemd same format as before, so can use the 65% pass, 70% good, 75% v. good marks as all students & kap staffs officially say on their archieve & at their center .
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| Miradautas Vras
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thanks for the reply man! Yes seems like almost 50 % questions are thorughly updated and new. LOTs of slides , mri/cts [ esp CNS ] which can not be solved by question stem , i mean you know which structure is there but you need to pint it out in picture. Can get very difficult on CNS questions. like i had many questions which wanted me to identify , solely from MRI structures like hippocampus / amygdala etc . also some of te weired PET scan SPE scans were there too. Molecular and cell biology questions were insanely difficult [ general performance of all people below 35 % or so].
Lots of question are still under performance surveillance, but over all performance for those surveyed is 60% .
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| CaribMedStudnt
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Miradautas Vras wrote:
.....My individual organ systems [ cardio, respiratory . nervous etc] analysis runs around 61 - 82 % [ 80 crossed on nervous and respi ] lowest being [goddamnit] behaviour at 61 %, and all rest around 68 to 75%.
I am yet to take NBME s . I took kaplan q bank as a learning tool and i think i learned a LOT from it which might make me a better test taker than what the cumulative score shows me to be.
Question now. How do i interpret this thing?....Also is NBME necessary? i mean if i score good in it its obviously a boost but say if i messed it up i'd be in unnecessary tension before hand.....:
You shouldnt take the Step without first taking the NBME exams. The kaplan q-bank is exactly what you described it to be, a study tool. The questions do nothing more than test what you have retained from reading the Kaplan books, and many of the Physio questions are not even relevant to the material tested on the Step 1 (this is coming directly from a well known Kaplan physio instructor).
But just to give you some perspective, I recently took the Kaplan review, many of my friends averaged in the 60s on the q-bank. Of all the people who i know who have taken the exam already, approximately 20 students, every single person passed with a score above the national mean. Furthermore, you dont look at the average of your whole q-bank performance, more specifically you look at how you did on your last 500 questions (unused, 50 question blocks, timed).
If i were you, i would invest in NBME 4 and 3. NBME 4 is considered the hardest, and NBME 3 is considered the most predictive. Take both exams in one sitting, that is 400 questions, only 50 more than the real exam. This will test your knowledge, and more importantly your stamina. When you get your result, you'll know exactly where you stand.
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| CaliMD
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Please take the NBME before you take your real exam. It will be a gauge as to your real score. Qbank is not a predictor like NBME.
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| ieltsforall
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my exam is also very near but i started last year and is using KAPLAN 2006 Q BANK can i will have to purchase kaplan q bank 2007 or not kindly reply urgently plzzzzzzzzzz
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| CocaCola
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take the NBME... for most people it is a really good predictor of exam performance...
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