percentile, can´t you calculate it yourself?

[europeanIMG]

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Hi,
I know they don´t give out percentiles anymore.

But isnt it really easy to calculate it for yourself since they give u the mean and the standard deviation?

Z=score(your score)-mean(US and Canadian students) /standard deviation, look it up in a Z-score table and you´ll find your percentile?

 

[tideleonheart]

Hi,
I know they don´t give out percentiles anymore.

But isnt it really easy to calculate it for yourself since they give u the mean and the standard deviation?

Z=score(your score)-mean(US and Canadian students) /standard deviation, look it up in a Z-score table and you´ll find your percentile?

Yep

 

[lord_jeebus]

You would have to assume that Step I scores are normally distributed, and I'm pretty sure they're not.

 

[Raryn]

You would have to assume that Step I scores are normally distributed, and I'm pretty sure they're not.

I thought they normalized the distribution of the 3 digit scores much like the MCAT is normalized?

 

[turkeyjerky]

You would have to assume that Step I scores are normally distributed, and I'm pretty sure they're not.

my school's distribution looks pretty gaussian. what do you think the distribution is, right shifted with a long left tail? I could see that, wonder if they've ever reported the median.

 

[McGillGrad]

Or you could save yourself the time and use the clinical review chart at the bottom of this page:

http://www.clinical review.com/USMLECalculator.php

 

[lord_jeebus]

I thought they normalized the distribution of the 3 digit scores much like the MCAT is normalized?

It's not normalized; the three-digit score is supposed to represent a performance comparable to that same score in any previous year. The pass line is not determined by your performance compared to your testing group, but compared to a minimum level of competency that the passing score is supposed to represent. In theory, everyone could pass the test.