Did anyone count?

[godschosenone]

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Have you counted how many questions on step 1 that you felt that you answered correctly? If so, can you post it here. I have a theory that your raw score (ie, the number you actually got correct) equals YOUR score. Total may be 300-350 depending upon the total number of experimental questions you had.

So for all of you interested in playing this game, please provide:

#1) your score
#2) your count (of how many you think you had correct)

Like this:

1) 253/99
2) 253 correct

For those who haven't taken Step 1 yet, please count and post, and then update after your score is received. Obviously, what one thinks one gets correct does not always equal the actual number correct, but with some room for error, let's see if this theory works.

 

[trdc3lica]

Took step one recently, havent received scores yet. But...

220 Confirmed right (so far), 7 Confirmed wrong. The rest ... cant remember...so it can go either way. Also, a few of them, I can't find the answer anywhere, so i dunno. Will post actual score when received.

 

[smq123]

Have you counted how many questions on step 1 that you felt that you answered correctly? If so, can you post it here. I have a theory that your raw score (ie, the number you actually got correct) divided by 300 (maybe 350) equals YOUR score.

This theory doesn't work. If you read the intro to First Aid, they say that roughly 10-20% of your questions on Step 1 will be "experimental questions," that are destined to be thrown out eventually. (But you don't know how many questions are experimental, and probably vary from exam to exam.) Since not all of the questions count, but you don't know which do and which don't, you can't really calculate your score.

To ensure that I passed, I tried to make sure that at least 70% of my questions in each block were definitely correct. I passed, so I guess it wasn't such a terrible strategy.

 

[blz]

This is a good thread for people walking out of the test feeling like they failed it or wanna get a better sense of how they did based off their perceived amount of questions incorrect.

I'd say that there were about 10 questions on every section that I wasn't 100% sure on. So that's about 70 questions that I was in the 50-99% range on. End result: 263/99

 

[The Buff]

I'd say that there were about 10 questions on every section that I wasn't 100% sure on. So that's about 70 questions that I was in the 50-99% range on. End result: 263/99

I counted each block as I went and I also felt that I was not 100% on about 10 per block. Looks like I didn't guess as well as blz, though 🙂 End Result: 246/99.

 

[chitown82]

blz and The Buff -
for the ones you weren't 100% sure on - were you deciding between two answers or three? were you 50% sure on those answers or just guessing completely? thanks!

 

[blz]

blz and The Buff -
for the ones you weren't 100% sure on - were you deciding between two answers or three? were you 50% sure on those answers or just guessing completely? thanks!

I should have provided a tad more info. Of those 70 questions I mentioned I wasn't 100% sure on, the majority of them I was about 80% sure on (meaning they weren't exactly knee-jerk answers, but I had to reason through them to come up with an answer). There was only 2 questions I had to completely guess on. I'd say there was about 10 or so where I was 50/50 on.

 

[Hallm_7]

Took step one recently, havent received scores yet. But...

220 Confirmed right (so far), 7 Confirmed wrong. The rest ... cant remember...so it can go either way. Also, a few of them, I can't find the answer anywhere, so i dunno. Will post actual score when received.

How did you confirm 220 questions right? There's no way you remembered 220 possible questions well enough to look them up later is there?

 

[chitown82]

How did you confirm 220 questions right? There's no way you remembered 220 possible questions well enough to look them up later is there?

you dont have to look up questions to know you got them right.

example: patient comes in with inability to extend wrist bla bla bla. what nerve is affected? ans. radial nerve. likely i wouldnt remember this question after taking the test (unless someone specifically asked) because i knew the ans right away. but i know i got it right so i can put it in my "questions got right" tally.

 

[werd]

i've also wondered if the raw score is the actual score, but i'd be shocked if people remembered their tests well enough to actually provide evidence. also, i was of the impression that each test has the same number of experimental questions... otherwise the tests would have different effective # of questions and, rigorously speaking, it wouldn't be fair to compare tests with different confidence intervals.
i just think it's suspicious that you need "60-70%" to pass and 182 is just over 60% of 300; basically, people's raw scores on the test are in the same range as the official scores they send back to us... i guess the world may never know.

 

[godschosenone]

How did you confirm 220 questions right? There's no way you remembered 220 possible questions well enough to look them up later is there?

I just tallied up the # I was 100% certain on at the end of each block, then jotted it down, and at the end of the exam, I added the 7 blocks to get a total raw score +/- those that were 70% correct or so.

 

[trdc3lica]

How did you confirm 220 questions right? There's no way you remembered 220 possible questions well enough to look them up later is there?

I did actually remember about 230 questions. I then checked em up in textbooks. If only I could remember textbooks as well as i remember multiple choice questions.