New Change In Step 3 Practice Exam!!!

[FirstMANdown]

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What the heck!? I took the NBME Step 3 practice exam today and by the time I was finished, Prometrics printed me out my results in %!! I thought the practice test scoring was historically given as a point range (0-800), 400 being minimal pass level (assumption). However, I received my score in percentage instead of a number range. Had 96 questions and 3 clinical cases to solve. The clinical cases were not added in to part of the score but answer and explanation was provided. I scored 60% on the ck portion. Does anyone know if this is good enough to attempt to take the real thing???? Is 60% a pass range??? If anyone can enlighten me on this and others who will no doubtfully be taken the step 3 practice exam please add in your "mustard".
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[guy_incognito]

From what I understand, the practice exam at Prometric is just the practice CD done in a formal setting. I think the questions are exactly the same. So it is just the same as calculating your percentage as those who did so using the practice CD. The USMLE CD does not give any sort of score correlation, only the NBME online self-assessment website exam will do that.

That said, generally the practice CD questions are easier than say UW or Qbank. Not enough people post their scores like they did for step 1 or 2, so I don't think there is any decently reliable score correlation. Don't know if 60% falls in the pass range. I only did about 2 sections, and I think I was more in the 75-80% range, and I EASILY passed (by well over 50 points).