Step I NBME Score or MedFriends Score?

[jane70]

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It occured to me the other day that i wasn't sure if when people are discussing their NBME scores, are most people using the score conversion chart from NBME or the one from Medfriends? The Medfriends one is alot nicer, mine is a good 6 points higher, but I don't want to bank on that one if it's not as accurate. thoughts from anyone?

 

[kaboodle]

Since the NBME exam scoring grid is designed by the people who write the NBME Step 1 Exam, I would say that their scoring grid is more reflective than MedFriends.

 

[AlternateSome1]

It occured to me the other day that i wasn't sure if when people are discussing their NBME scores, are most people using the score conversion chart from NBME or the one from Medfriends? The Medfriends one is alot nicer, mine is a good 6 points higher, but I don't want to bank on that one if it's not as accurate. thoughts from anyone?

Remember, medfriends has a SD of 13 (if I remember correctly) points. 95% of the students should score within 26 points of the score medfriends gives, so you could really outperform or really underperform the mean given.