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Hi Target! thank you! I read your CS experience, it is really well written and helped me a lot. I will be using your tips when I take it. I pushed it too next month. Good luck with Step 1!
Helloooo KG! Where are you?? It has been ages! Hope you are hanging in there and working on Step 1. Or are you done with it? Yeah we all miss you too. I will catch you on Orkut 
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| ShweHope99.9998
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Hey did not see this one , so many threads , thought had congratulate u already at the others , oh , why not let me Congratulate u again   
Wish have smile to put here 
KGGGGGGGGGG we all miss u , come up on msg to chat some time .
GL in ur next one , what ever it is 
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| Ujk
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CONGRATULATIONS!!
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| yousefreda
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Congrats on a great score!!
Okay i was aiming for 99 and here is my progress so far:
NBME 1: 2 months before: 480
UW average- 64%
UW Assessment( 1 week before)- 570(234)
i am scared that i will not get 99 since u got 560 on it ... do u know why ur correlation was way off?
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| yousefreda
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sorry i meant NBME 1: 480 2months before
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| usmlekiller
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hey does uw assessment test tell u the % of questions u got right or just says the 3 digit score?
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| yousefreda
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just 3 digit score
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| dr_puma
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cool well done
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| dr_puma
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well done .keep posting
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| acintya
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Hey Shwe, Ujk; Thanks for your wishes!! Nice to see our old friends
Sorry did not know that there were new posts here....thanks yousefreda, usmlekiller and dr_puma.
yousefreda, I am not sure exactly why the correlation was off, but I am guessing that one of the reasons was that I was too anxious on the test day, was even quite sick, so that probably affected my performance. I was actually excited to see 560/232 on the UW assessment a week prior to my exam.... anyways...it is what it is.....
So my suggestion, keep studying, and don't bother about the correlation, and keep calm on test day, you should do very well....and maybe do another NBME nearer the exam to see where you stand.
And usmlekiller, the UW assessment gives a 3 digit score, 2 digit score, an analysis of your performance ie strong and weak areas like NBME, and when you go to review the blocks, you actually know how many questions right in each block....so you can have a rough idea of what percent of questions you got right....
I don't remember exactly how many I got right....around 150/200 I think....
Good luck all of you
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| gauri14
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congrats!!
since am new to the MLE wagon...i was wondering if u cud help me wid sum q"S...
could u tell me if the kaplan q bank is enough to get a good score??and whats the UW and the NBME??where can i get those q"S??how do i plan my studying??
i will be joining kaplan soon!!plz help!!!thanx!!
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| drms
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CONGRATULATION
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| acintya
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gauri14: I have heard of people getting a good score with Kaplan Q bank alone, but of late, the trend is that the questions are more of 3 step thinking, and the clues are sometimes hidden. Kaplan Q bank questions are more direct, and the clues are quite obvious in most questions. They have updated the bank this year and is better now than before. I found the Behavioural Science questions useful from this bank, but I did not complete it.
But in my experience, USMLE World gives better exposure to some twisted questions and the explanations are great. If one were to pick ONE bank, I would pick UW, but if you have the time (and money ) to do 2 banks, then do both...but in short, I felt UW was better. Here is the link to do UW questions: www.usmleworld.com.
It is better to buy it because it gets updated often and you would need experience with timing yourself, choosing different subjects to test yourself on etc.
NBME has some great practice tests, 200 questions each. There are some downloads if you look around in the forum but I did the online forms [www.nbme.org] because it gives you a great analysis of your approximate performance on actual test with our strengths and weaknesses and an approximate score.
Good luck and let me know if you need more info!
drms: Thanks!! Good luck with your prep! It is amazing how you manage studying with a child
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| faraym
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Congrats sweetie!!
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| acintya
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oooh look who walked by Faraym, how can I ever thank you for sticking around while I though I was going nuts I will call you soon
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| abummeis
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well done acintya.
i just want to ask about the three digit & two digit scores?
the final three digit score is 300 or 360 or what???
the two digit score means the percent% or what?
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| antidepressant
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Congratulations! actiniya, thats a great score! i am sorry, i didnt know you are done! and thats a great post, very well written experience, thanks. wish you all the best!
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| nootropic
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Congrats and thank you so much for your excellent post! It's extremely helpful!
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| acintya
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Thanks abumeiss, antidepressant and nootropic for your kind words.
@abumeiss, the topic on 3 digit and 2 digit score has been extensively discussed in the forum. The final 3 digit score to pass in Step 1 is 185, and the highest I have heard so far is 267. In NBME, the 3 digit score can be upto 800, but the safe range to pass is about 450 on 800. The 2 digit score is not a percent or a percentile, apparently that number is determined by how you perform on that day against all other test takers.
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| abummeis
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THANKS ACINTYA.
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