r/Step3 • u/Puzzled-Enthusiasm45 • 1d ago
CCSCases.com question bank
I’m wondering if anyone has experience with the CCSCases.com question bank?
For context I’ve always been a very strong test taker and did very well on step 2. I’m an anesthesia resident on a categorical intern year looking to test in October. Talking to the PGY2s most of them used uworld but a lot of them used less than half the questions and still felt like they would have been fine with less.
I know Uworld is the gold standard but I only care about passing and $350 in savings would go a long way, is Uworld really that much better?
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u/PsychologicalMath299 13h ago
CCSCases was fine for getting familiar with the interface but the questions felt shorter than the real thing. For the qbank side I'd honestly just do uworld if you can swing it, the explanations alone are worth it
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u/Pleasant_Poetry4285 1d ago
I had this question last week so I emailed them. They have has 6000 people use the qbank. I haven't seen any complaints. It has been up for about a year so that is a good sample size. So I took my percentile score 23 and then put it into the AI also telling the system that I was taking the USMLE Step 3. The number correlated to 213 which matched the expected distribution curve since 225 is the average score. The questions are shorter then the actual test but I read faster on the actual test because I'm anxiety.
Now, they don't have that many biostat or epi questions. So there's an issue there because the first day is 50% those questions. However, I found that the best way to augment the situation is to tell the Gemini AI to create questions for the USMLE biostat and to make a quiz. Today, I'm going to have the system make example pharmaceutical ads to see what it it does.
Obviously, the CCS cases actual cases are the best. You can also just ask around and you'll find plenty of bootleg UWorld questions. If you're a good tester you have everything you need plus some. I just don't think it's worth spending an extra money..