Min. Gross Score Needed

[jorUW]

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It seems like most of you on this forum are International and thus trying to get great scores to gain admittance. It's nice to see the success stories out there but I've yet to find a post on the low range of passing scores. Not that you strive for just getting by, but does anyone know generally what the minimum raw score range typically associated with a composite of 75 is? I know there is variation, but generally I think it might be helpful. Sometimes it's nice to know where the bar is set to put your mind at ease as you're taking the exam.

I know that some of the people on here are retakers and atleast one of you mentioned a 74. If any of you would mind posting your raw scores that would be awesome thanks.

 

[jorUW]

bump (I think three more people have asked this in one way or another since I did) Thanks for any help😀

 

[ganish]

according to the technical report on the ADA website, historically a passing raw score is mid-fifty out of 100 per section.

 

[jorUW]

Thanks for the reply. I had heard something along those lines, but was not sure if that more so referenced the old format. (e.g. some sections of '98 test needed a 42% to pass). I figured SDNers could contribute hard facts from their score reports.

Hopefully (for those of us not wanting to specialize🙄) the bar is still set at or near the same level, with just a decrease in scores on the top end. In other encouraging news, our school's ASDA president came away from this years national meeting with a statistic that something like 97% of first time takers from U.S. accredited schools pass👍.

Personally, my goal has been to 1.) Pass and 2.) Score in the mid 80's. So I take it as long as you don't feel like you're missing every other question, you should be fine. I know you shouldn't "count your answers," but the worse thing you can do is freak out if you start missing a bunch of questions (which will happen due to the nature of the beast). The test seems to be more of a mind game than anything else. Good luck to everyone!!!

 

[jorUW]

So after searching around the ADA website I found the following study published about the performance of individuals taking the new format since it's implementation.

http://www.ada.org/prof/ed/testing/adea_2008_test_perform_ndbe.pdf

It splits test takers into 4 groups: Accredited 1st time takers, repeaters, non-accredited 1st time takers, and repeaters.

Like I mentioned above, 1st time takers from accredited schools have 96-97% pass rate with a mean raw score of apprx 69% and mean comp of 83👍.

It doesn't talk about minimums needed to pass, but very rough math logic (I'm not a statistician) of one of the sample populations shows you can argue it appears to still be around 56% (average score appx 56% correct associated with average comp 75) It looks like I've answered my own question, but hopefully this helps others.