How many to miss on an NBME = 235-240

[Blondnuttyboy]

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Does anyone know?

Has anyone taken an NBME, with expanded eval, and can share roughly how many you can miss out of 200 to land a 230-240?

I took one, got a 230 and made the dumb move to not pay the extra $15 to see how many I actually missed. I just wanted an estimate

Argh.

Thanks!!!

 

[kryptik]

you probably missed about ~15% of the questions

 

[badasshairday]

Which form did you take?

The thing that sucks though, even after paying 15$ more, they don't even tell you the right answers. 😡

 

[metalrex]

I think I read someone getting 230-ish on NBME and a rough estimate of 166 correct.

Take this with a pinch of salt though.I am not too sure and curious to know about this myself.

EDIT: I just saw a post on the NBME progression thread implying a score of 244 and having 24 incorrect.

Maybe this will help you arrive to a rough estimate.

 

[Blondnuttyboy]

I took form 2. Wow there is really not much room for error is there?

 

[metalrex]

I took form 2. Wow there is really not much room for error is there?

Yeah , I agree.That's why the NBME's are fabled for harsh scoring and underestimating your scores.UWSA seem to be bit more forgiving.

Nevertheless they are gold standard or so they say.

I took NBME 6 at the onset of my study and got thrashed ,surprised cuz I felt the exam was not all that diff , but BOOM.

Now I am kinda jittery of murdering my confidence again but have to face it,so am gonna be doing NBME 7 in few days.

 

[badasshairday]

It reminds me of MCAT prep. The Kaplan Full lengths were much harder than the AAMC released old exams. But Kaplan had a nice cure, and the AAMC had easier questions. But in the end it all ended up predicting fine.

Kind of a tangent, sorry.

Oh yeah. But remember the real MCAT felt way harder than those AAMC released exams. Maybe the NBME does the same thing? The real step 1 is harder questions, while the old released stuff is easier questions, thus a tougher curve. Who knows?

 

[utdoc05]

took nbme 6 and missed 31 a few weeks back, that was a 234, had a friend who missed 16 who got a 255, pretty tough scoring

 

[2012mdc]

I think I read someone getting 230-ish on NBME and a rough estimate of 166 correct.

Take this with a pinch of salt though.I am not too sure and curious to know about this myself.

EDIT: I just saw a post on the NBME progression thread implying a score of 244 and having 24 incorrect.

Maybe this will help you arrive to a rough estimate.

I took NBME #6 and I got a 244. I missed 24 so that progression thread is pretty accurate

 

[lildave2586]

took nbme 6 and missed 31 a few weeks back, that was a 234, had a friend who missed 16 who got a 255, pretty tough scoring

I missed 23 on NBME 6 and got a 244

 

[PokerDoc]

I think this is a TERRRRRRRIBLE thread

I dont think we should even worry about this.. youre gonna go up to the plate and take your best swing and test day. If you start calculating in your head mid-test: ok I know I missed 8 for sure so far so I can only miss 10 more if I want to meet my goal; you're going to add additional stress to already hellish test.

I don't want know how many wrong means anything.. all i know is the more I expose myself (twss) to the material the better my chance of scoring high is (twss again!)

 

[lildave2586]

I don't think the number that you miss on the NBMEs correlates that well to similar scores on the real thing. We have no idea how they come up with the scores; for all we know you can miss 35 and still get in the 250s. Who knows?