The UWSAs are great resources for questions that are distributed fairly evenly across all the tested topics. Just because the UWSA may not be necessary for score prediction, it does not mean that this test is not valuable.
USMLE STEP 1 SCORE PREDICTOR FULL
Remember, the USMLE is like a marathon, and if you have ever trained for a marathon you will know that marathon training rarely involves a full mile practice run. This is where the student becomes almost entirely focused on taking exams and measuring exam performance and loses sight of the bigger picture, which is to improve and solidify knowledge for the actual exam. Most importantly, if you take the practice exam too close to the actual exam, you may leave no time to work on the weaknesses that the exam report can reveal for you. With the availability of the additional exam forms, students who will have access to both the old forms and the new forms should be able to obtain more than enough score prediction to suit their needs.įor most students, this currently means taking NBME forms 17 and 18 about a week apart and about weeks before exam day. Clearly, the UWSA is not ideal from a score prediction standpoint. Now that there will be so many available NBME practice exams as of March 25th,should students still be using the UWorld self-assessment practice exams to help measure their level of expected performance on the actual USMLE Step 1 exam? First of all, many students-and our tutors-know that the UWSA is notorious for producing a predicted score performance that can overstate students score performance by points more pronounced for UWSA 1.