[achistikbenny]

am doing nbme offline but i dont know how to calculate my score into a three digit score . for example i got 38, 37 ,38,40 in one of the forms. how do i know my three digit score. it will help me know if am on the average or not.thank u

 

[Seetal]

am doing nbme offline but i dont know how to calculate my score into a three digit score . for example i got 38, 37 ,38,40 in one of the forms. how do i know my three digit score. it will help me know if am on the average or not.thank u

is this 38% or 38 what? if its 38% and u dont have the score board u can just add another 30 to it and assume u got a ~68 score for step 1. thats what one of the former test taker said. the score board is here somewhere. try looking in yr search facility. it cannot be copied from this forum i think.

 

[achistikbenny]

what i ment was for example in nbme form 1 i got 38 out of 50 in section 1 and 37 section 2 , 44 in sec 3, 41 sec 4 . each section has 50 questions. with this could u explain how to calculate the three digit score for each form pls.

 

[lee-usmle]

Do it online

It seems that you have taken the NBME offline.

There's no reliable way to predict your two digit and three digit score from that. Simply because the NBME uses "unknown" algorithm to calculating and predicting your scores.

Seetal's formula is the most acceptable one (though it's highly incorrect).

Your average scores in the four blocks seems to be 38 which means that you have got 76% on one of the forms. If you use that formula it means that your predicted score will be 106 on the two digit scale (which is obviously incorrect).

Therefore my biggest advice for you is this;

Don't spoil the great prediction power of the NBME by doing it offline. Do the official online NBME and it will predict your score correctly.

Some threads that may help you;
NBME Prediction accuracy
Two digits and Three digits scores
How USMLE Scores calculated

 

[Seetal]

sorry totally misguiding!! (i saw one of the former test takers post it here some months ago and ive been using it sort-of). but yeah do the online NBME definitely. because for some reason, from year to year, a 233 can be a 99 this yr but next yr u could need a 239 minimum for a 99 score. u see.. so weird calculations!! plus i got this email from ECFMG, the questions have changed a little bit.

 

[achistikbenny]

thanks for all the advice, i ll definitely do nbme online am just doing this offline one to know how far i ve gone. the ones i ll do online i did not touch or look at the Q SO TO GET THE CORRECT ASSESMENT of my performance when i do it online. thank u.