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I am new to this forum. I am really impressed by the nice ideas, issue analysis and problem solving in this forum. I have just had my step 1 a few days ago. I have read much about scoring and I respectfully disagree with p53's last post on scoring.
First of all, having different scores for easy and hard questions is absolutely not the "only" explanation for the the 60% to 70% range for pass. Another, probably more logic explanation, is the presence of experimental Qs. Thus, indeed, one has to answer 60% of the truely calculated questions to pass. This is about 182 out of 300 questions. If one however answers 175 true question and e.g. 40 experimental Qs right then he would fail as he/she didn't achieve the 60% required of the truely calculated Qs. (although he/she has answered more than 60% of the whole 350 Qs)
Thus, the 75 two digit score corresponds to 60%, which shows that the two digit score is actually 15 above the percent. Such difference is not necessarily constant throughout the scoring table (the proof is the presence of more than one 3 digit score that correspond to the same 2 digit score).
In my opinion, the three digit score corresponds logically to the number of the rightly answered Qs out of the 300 truely calculated Qs. The range between 245 and the highest possible score corresponds to one two digit score = 99. The max score ever reported is 280 and the higest theoritical score would be 300.
Let me know what others think about this..
Edited by Genome on 12/01/06 - 08:14 PM
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Hey Docs, would you please someone reply to this and correct me if I am wrong or agree with me if he/she goes with what I proposed?
Thanks in advance...
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