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I see a lot of talk about percentiles on shelf exams. How do you find that out? Does your school release them with your raw score?
Pompacil said:I see a lot of talk about percentiles on shelf exams. How do you find that out? Does your school release them with your raw score?
I've found that it varies with the time you take the Shelf exam over the course of the year. For example, an 85 on the Medicine Shelf when I took it (early) was around a 95%ile but if you took Medicine Shelf last (late) it was a lower %ile. I can't recall exact numbers.Pompacil said:I see a lot of talk about percentiles on shelf exams. How do you find that out? Does your school release them with your raw score?
bigfrank said:I've found that it varies with the time you take the Shelf exam over the course of the year. For example, an 85 on the Medicine Shelf when I took it (early) was around a 95%ile but if you took Medicine Shelf last (late) it was a lower %ile. I can't recall exact numbers.
Your best bet is to ask the person that you get your score from, "Hey, thanks -- can you tell me what percentile the score corresponds to?"
Pompacil said:Thanks...yeah the cutoffs change over the course of the year since they do release to us the passing score, which has gone up over the year.
bulldog said:i think the percentile varies for each raw score (the two digit score some people may get back) depending on the test.
Here's what I've remember:
For neuro, I think the national raw score mean was 72 for our group. course director didn't give the SD or percentile.
for psych, i think it's the only rotation where a high raw score gives u a really crappy percentile. i heard the national raw score for psych was something like an 82. if anyone has different info, please post. i'm interested in this as well.
for ob, i think i read somewhere the high 80's raw score was 99%tile...
didn't get the mean for peds, didn't even get my surgery score back....
Reaganite said:Not taking into account corrections for the date in which the test was taken:
For OB, a score of 88 or higher was 99th percentile.
For surgery, upper 80s corresponded to 99th percentile.
For psych and IM, you had to score in the 90s to get 99th percentile.
For Neuro, curve was very generous, although I don't know the details.
For Peds, I have no idea; I just know it was the easiest shelf I ever took!
Not taking into account corrections for the date in which the test was taken:
For OB, a score of 88 or higher was 99th percentile.
For surgery, upper 80s corresponded to 99th percentile.
For psych and IM, you had to score in the 90s to get 99th percentile.
For Neuro, curve was very generous, although I don't know the details.
For Peds, I have no idea; I just know it was the easiest shelf I ever took!