Welcome. My name is Divine. This is Episode 576 of the Divine Intervention Podcasts.

In today's podcast, I'm going to be addressing a topic that is extremely important.

This is probably going to end up being one of my highest yield podcasts.

And what's to this topic? To this topic is differences between the MBMEs and Q banks.

Differences between the MBMEs and Q banks.

If you really spend time listening to this podcast and digesting and understanding,

what I'm going to discuss is going to really change the way you think through and approach MBME questions.

So let's get right into it.

So the very first piece of advice I'll give you is that you pretty much need to do all the

MBME is available for the exam that you're taking, be it step one, step two or step three.

Do all of them that you can find.

This advice, again, applies to step one to three.

If you choose to not do these practice tests, you're pretty much shooting yourself in the foot.

Because ask yourself a question, who is writing the test you're going to be graded at? It's the

NBME. So don't you think you'll be useful to spend time working on materials they have created as prep for the exam, right?

Because if you think about it, the fact that one person you know or you know you read the experience,

the fact that one person you know, you read the experience on Reddit or SDN, you know, they do well on the test while only doing

one practice in being exam does not mean that you will do the same thing and succeed.

You were not sitting in those people's homes with them while they were studying.

They may not have told you everything that they did.

You don't know what kind of background or foundation they have educationally, right?

Because many people fall into this external validity error, and then they are surprised when they don't do well, right?

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