Two shapes, because a plan is asked to do two different things. Papers
are rehearsal: each block is drawn to the ABP's published weights, so
sitting one says something about how you would do on the day. Domains
are study: the board's twenty-four content areas in its own order and
carrying its own titles, each given the share of the plan the board
gives it on the exam.
Both were written, then run against the real bank, which found two bugs
a unit test on a clean fixture would not have. Domains 19 and 20 —
nephrology and genitourinary — both map to our "Nephrology & Urology",
so a question sat in two pools and was dealt twice; the deal now keeps a
record of what has gone. And chunking every question a domain has into
blocks of forty gave preventive care six blocks and the plan a hundred
and sixty, which is not a plan: blocks are shared out by weight, with at
least one per domain so nothing the board examines is left out.
Built on the live bank alongside what was already there: Boards: Full
Papers (12 × 40) and Boards: By Content Domain (27 blocks, 1069
questions). Nothing existing was touched.
Psychosocial Issues and Child Abuse and Neglect — 6% of the paper
between them — had no category of ours at all, so they could contribute
nothing. Both now exist, with sub-topics named from the board's own
subdomains, and all 24 domains map to categories.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TqXevQJhxFrM7jJg82cgZN
