Great questions, terrible UI/UX
The questions are great compared to what other apps offer, especially the next gen ones. However for the price, it’s not worth it. The mobile app interface is horrendous and antiquated. The filter functionality is severely lacking and it’s not possible to customize the exams in the way I need them to be filtered. Although, many of the apps have that issue, so that’s not a unique problem to their app (unfortunately). To give an example of one that excels in this area, the Lecturio app has the best filtering functions I have found; however, even that is not perfect. UWorld is hardly trying. Btw, how is filtering by “basic care and comfort” helpful? Those are just arbitrary categories and useless buzz words imo. They’re not actually useful categories to filter by as a nursing student though (and by not useful I mean 100% useless). Most of those categories like “physiological adaptation” and “infection and safety control” are always applicable, from the first class to the last. We don’t actually get tested on those subjects individually, so it’s worthless. Filtering that way creates exams that have questions that are way past what we’ve learned or way beyond it. It’s the equivalent of a junk drawer. “How about filtering by patho type (pancreatic, liver, neural, etc) or pharm type (antidiabetics, analgesics, etc) and then combining any which way you want. Also being able to save those parameters for future quiz creation. I don’t think any app has that, sadly. Makes me want to build my own. As an aside, I was a developer in my last career, so I am analyzing this app from a programmer’s mindset as well, not just a nursing student standpoint. Anyway back to the problems with their app. The max questions per quiz is 85 which is cheap of them. My guess is that they limit data storage or connectivity. Assuming they’re part of a fiber network, that would mean they just aren’t buying enough storage on whatever servers they’re renting from whatever data center they’re partnered with. That’s so cheap and lazy, especially taking the price into consideration. They have ample money to cover the costs of more uptime/downtime and/or data storage and still maintain a great profitability margin. An app that isn’t being cheap would be the Mastery NCLEX app, which has no limit on quiz questions. I’d recommend doing what it takes to remove the limit. Speaking of the Mastery app, their UI/UX is nearly flawless and responds at lightning speed. UWorld could learn a thing or two from
