So, when I had to choose which study resources to use for USMLE Step 2 CK studying, I agonized over the decision. I just want to save other people from the bad advice out there regarding these two products.I’m the kind of person who will take 20 minutes to decide what to order off a menu with only one food option. I'm sorry if this seems long winded and bitter, but that is only because it is and I am. Many of their explanations are also very poor leaving the reader with many questions they would never have after reading a UWorld explanation. The questions are poorly written and many of them give multiple correct answer choices (or at least an answer choice that should not have been included for whatever teaching point they were trying to make). I have been finding an average of 2-4 issue per 40 question block in the Kaplan Qbank (they have responded and fixed only few of the errors I have pointed out). In the almost 5000 UWorld questions (between Step 1 and Step 2), I had only found one or two corrections that needed to be made (and they ended up responding me and fixing at least one of the questions).

I have had to question and correct so many answers it has caused more confusion than clarification/education.

My second Uworld practice test predicted a score of 272, and I think I have regressed at least a dozen points by using Kaplan. The more actual medicine you know the more frustrated you will become with the product. Fast forward to today, where I am a little over halfway through reviewing the answers to my first full-length practice test (a test that doesn't give you a score correlation after the 8 hrs you put in btw), and I have already found over half a dozen errors.

After reading the debates online, I was left with the impression that there was a real competition between the two, so I decided to give Kaplan a try. I did it for a second time following my rotations, but I had some extra time left over and I was debating between UWorld again, or trying Kaplan. I only used Uworld for Step 1 (ended up with a 259), and I also used the Step 2 bank during my clinical rotations. In doing so, I came across the Kaplan vs Uworld Qbank debate multiple times. I, like many medical students, used the internet as a resource when trying to determine what study materials to use when studying for the Step exams.

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