cirus
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The UW world qbank is really painful, I finished Kaplan notes 3 times, I even wrote almost all IM but my scores are fluctuating enormously.. Sometimes the exam is easy & others I don't have a clue, a lot & I mean a lot of material from outside Kaplan my scores are ranging 50-70% (sometimes 80)but my cum score is 53rd percentile, I know I only finished 21% but I'm really worried, I'm trying to review my mistakes & of course the lucky quest I get right but it just doesn’t stop..
Basically what I'm doing now is going over a chapter, studying the few topics I left behind(esp those rare weird ones in Ped, they seem to appear a lot on the quest as if the bank is telling you its imp) then solving exams of 10-20s in each chapter. When I was almost done I solved 2 blocks of IM & i scored 55, 58% respectively..
I don't know if I'm going the right way or not & are my scores good or not, so I'd appreciate any advice...I really need it
Thanks & good luck for u all
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| arlete
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Use it as a learning tool, don't stress over the result. Keep doing what you are doing, be optimist because you are learning. Once you are finish, try the NBME.
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| jodin99
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Hello everyone ,
Thanks for the forum advice u send all
All what i wanna ask is that my score is very fluctuant and low in the usmle world qbank step2 it is about 40% +/- 7% .. actually i don't know shall i get to the exam in a couple of months or not ?
I'm afraid of a failure attempt .. my score is sooo bad .
Hope to see urreply soon.
Thanks
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| arlete
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Hit the books hard before trying more questions, you are wasting them. You can improve a lot in a few months.
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| jodin99
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THanks arlete for your reply ..
Actually i did the kaplan IM twice and did the DVDs, and read the books at leasr once .. i know i have a recall problem .. but do u think i can fail with this score in uworld?
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| arlete
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You are low borderline, how long do you have to study? Are you writing down little reminders to be read during the last 2 weeks? I think that's a good aproach, things tend to stick better when you write them.
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| izn
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can anyone tell me when should we buy uw qbank??...i mean should we buy 2 months prior to exam or is it wise to buy it even more earlier?
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| arlete
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2 months or 45 days before test, 1 month subscription, study 200 questions a day, repeat and study wrong answers/"right guesses but not sure about them" (mark these) after you finished once, write down important details to read during the last 2 weeks, you'll be fine!
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| young_doc
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There's no right/wrong way to do UWorld...do it however you feel benefits you the most, not the way others do it. I personally don't recommend doing more than 2 blocks a day, but spending LOTS of time going over the explanations, and reading up on every topic that has to do with the question. I say start UWorld EARLYYYY. Use it as a learning tool.
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| izn
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thanks alot ....
also plz tell me should i buy 1 month subscription or the 2 month?
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| jodin99
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Well , the more time you subscribe the more questions available and the more new questins u can see , i guess the difference between one and 2 months isn't that great sum ..... my advice is to subscribe 2 moths prior to your exam , finish 2 blocks a day ( 100 question ) and finish uworld in a month then revise your uw notes and do an nbme ... then revise your weak points from books and then do uworld again but faster ( 200 questions a day ... i guess u did it before!!!! ) This will give you good exposure and fine infos in the exam.
God be with you. and hope i gave you good advice
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| izn
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thanks.....
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| izn
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can anyone tell me how many MCQs are there in 1 month subscription of UW qbank?
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| PJ07
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no of mcq is same irrespective of ur duaration of subscription - its around 2100 , 1300 in IM, peds 280 , surg,psychi obg 170-180-190 each.
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