around what % of questions right on ITE exam correlates to passing ABIM

[trumppatel3]

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just took ITE intern year. Got a 53% raw score of questions right (correlates to 30 percentile compared to other interns).

I know this isn't a passing score, I'm curious around roughly what percent of questions right correlates to a passing score on the exam (and/or what percentile compared to other interns would be passing).

Or if there are people who have scores from 2nd and 3rd year, I'm also curious what percentages raw compare to the percentile among peers in that year.

 

[PlutoBoy]

just took ITE intern year. Got a 53% raw score of questions right (correlates to 30 percentile compared to other interns).

I know this isn't a passing score, I'm curious around roughly what percent of questions right correlates to a passing score on the exam (and/or what percentile compared to other interns would be passing).

Or if there are people who have scores from 2nd and 3rd year, I'm also curious what percentages raw compare to the percentile among peers in that year.

This has been the subject of at least one study that I recall.

Being on the 35th percentile or above is a predictor of passing the boards.

 

[PlutoBoy]

Here is the data from the ACP:

https://www.acponline.org/system/files/documents/about_acp/chapters/oh/13-nielson.pdf

 

[Raryn]

There's a 1992 study that basically gave a 90% PPV of passing if you were the 35th percentile or higher on the ITE. The pass rate has changed up and down a fair bit since then, so I have no clue how valid that cutoff still is.

The cleveland clinic also put a nomogram out depending on your percentage all 3 years and your # of call months towards the end of residency. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475012/ is the article and the actual calculator used to be on r-calc.com, but it seems to have broken since then.

 

[PlutoBoy]

There's a 1992 study that basically gave a 90% PPV of passing if you were the 35th percentile or higher on the ITE. The pass rate has changed up and down a fair bit since then, so I have no clue how valid that cutoff still is.

The cleveland clinic also put a nomogram out depending on your percentage all 3 years and your # of call months towards the end of residency. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475012/ is the article and the actual calculator used to be on r-calc.com, but it seems to have broken since then.

The nomogram is included in the link I posted above.