NBDE II Failure rate.

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Anyone have an explanation for the high rate of failure of NBDE II for this year?

If I understood our dean correctly, it's because every few years NBDE reevaluates the cut off of whats pass/fail and this was the year they did that. Im sure there is more to it since the failure rate doubled from 6.3% to 12%