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Summer.Thunder
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03/26/07 - 10:37 AM       #1

For every extra 10 points, how many correct questions should one answer, whether for the 3 digits or the 2 digits scores? anyone knows?

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03/26/07 - 12:38 PM       #2

Answering one question correctly gives 1 point. In a real step 1 exam you are given 350 questions, of which 300 real ones and 50 experimental questions that don't give points whether answered correctly or not, and you don't know which questions are real or experiemental.

Meaning you may maximum score 300 points (3 digit score).

2 digit score shows how you stand when compared to other candidates, eg a 99 means you are on the 99 percentile, ie. the top 1% of all the people that have taken the given exam,

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03/26/07 - 03:11 PM       #3

No, the 2-digit score is not a percentile. More information can be found here: http://www.usmle.org/Scores/percentiles.htm

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03/26/07 - 05:02 PM       #4

oh. I didn't know that one correct answer equals to one point. I thought that those two socres are some kind of secret that only they know how to calculate.

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03/26/07 - 10:24 PM       #5

No, the 2-digit score is not a percentile. More information can be found here: http://www.usmle.org/Scores/percentiles.htm


Thanks for the info

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03/27/07 - 12:14 PM       #6

I wonder if we gotta reply 185 right Qs out of that 300 real Qs or out of 350 all confused I mean does the right experimental Qs count ?!??!?!?

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03/27/07 - 03:43 PM       #7

That sticky at the top of this forum has a very good discussion about the mystery of USMLE scoring. Check it out, it is pretty helpful.

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03/27/07 - 07:25 PM       #8

i just read this one. so it is not correct to say that one correct answer gives you one point.

http://www.prep4usmle.com/forum/comments.php?id=3...

1. 3-digit score isn't the number of correctly answered questions out of all 350.
there is some correlation between the number of correctly answered questions and 2-digit score: 60-70% (for explanation of this range, read the first sentence of the item 2) of correct answers will give you the passing 2 digit score - 75

There are 350 questions (100%) on step 1, so you have to answer 210-245 questions (60-70%) correctly to pass the exam.

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03/28/07 - 05:16 AM       #9

But remember that 50 of these questions are thrown out, and not included in the calculation of the score.









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