hi, please tell me how good or bad this score on uwsa is? i got 570/233. should i go for step 2 now or wait another month. i ve not taken a date for exam yet. i ll appreciate ur suggestions. thanks.
my score on nbme form 4 taken 3 weeks ago was 200.

(considering ur UWSA score)go for it ...wat r u waiting for...just take it.

no idea regarding NBME score.
edited by viag54172932 on 3/9/2011

r u sure? and pls also tell what should i study in the remaining 2 weeks if i decide to go for exam. is it only the explanations? from u world questions, or should i also read kaplan notes? pls reply.

r u sure? and pls also tell what should i study in the remaining 2 weeks if i decide to go for exam. is it only the explanations? from u world questions, or should i also read kaplan notes? pls reply.

hi zama...i will tell my story; initially i wanted to take my Ck before christmas; arround december 14th i took NBME 4 and got an 350(they estimate an 195 in real exam) and i decided to postpone my exam for 1 month; during the coming month i did 2000+ questions(qbooks where i score constantly above 75% questions right) and on january 19th i took UW SA(scored 520/222) and on january 20th i did free NBME(almost 82% right); ck score was 99/230;

none of the SA exams predict me that: NBME was under but was done 1 and a half month before;UW gave me also an underestimate score; from this point of view both SA underpredict my real score.....if i would be you i would do more questions(FA Q&A, kaplan qbook, NMS for step 2 CK,lange series)....if you constantly score above 75%, i think you are ready for the exam; why i am saying this? your NBME is 200(11 points above 189.....NBME gives a +/- 10 points!!!keep this in mind) and your UW SA is 233(it is well known that UW overpredicts real score sometimes even with 30 points!!!!).....

from my point of view: scoring above 200 on NBME means you got pretty much all the informations need it for the exam; i think you need more questions....give yourself another 3-5 weeks and solve as many questions as you can(at this time you should be able to do 2000-3000 questions in this period)....after this take at least one more SA(1-2 NBME's, another UW SA, qbooks which have SA exams, etc).....if you get similar scores at this time, most likely that will be your score on real exam too....

i hope this will help you....good luck!