Step I Number Questions Missed

[pedsmedstudent]

Hey, I took the test this past week, and I came home and remembered over 200 questions. Of those, I am pretty sure I missed around 20. I have no clue what to think about it. To me that sounds like a lot because on the practice NBMEs I was missing around 11-13 and scoring around 260. Hopefully I just have recall bias and remembered the majority of the ones I missed. I know each test is scored differently, i.e. there is a curve, but does anyone have any predictions as to what missing around 20-25 would be?

 

[username456789]

1. Aren't there something like 48 experimental questions thrown in there?
2. Seriously, the best thing you can do is NOT think about it at this point. Nothing you can do will change it, so needlessly fiddling with numbers is only going to make it worse!

Congrats on being done, though.

 

[psychforme]

What do you want us to say? "OMG you're awesome for missing 20 questions of 322"?

 

[knuckles]

Sounds like its gonna be borderline pass/fail ~188

 

[pedsmedstudent]

Sorry I posted this... I have had goals, and I am genuinely concerned. I did not mean to come across that way...

 

[MilkmanAl]

You remembered over 200 questions from the test? With a memory like that, you don't really have much excuse for scoring less than a 260. I can understand your concern.

 

[killinsound]

i.e. there is a curve, but does anyone have any predictions as to what missing around 20-25 would be?

'probably a disastrous 246-250s

 

[badasshairday]

'probably a disastrous 246-250s

 

[aashkab]

12/200 = x

((200/322)*(20/200) + (whatever else you think you got wrong/122)*(122/322)) = y

x/260 = (predicted score)/y

solve for predicted score


i am, oh so bored.

gluck pedsmedstudent, i'm sure you killed it given that experimental section like mentioned above.

 

[Domenech]

What do you want us to say? "OMG you're awesome for missing 20 questions of 322"?

You don't have to sound like that you know!