Score Audit

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Does anyone know what ADA does when a person requests score auditing for NBDE Part I? Do they just go back to recheck answers by hand? Or do they actually figure out if some questions might be "unfair" for whatever and reason and make the item an "unscored question" like we sometimes see on released tests?

Has anyone ever requested a score audit and received a lower score? A higher score? No change?


Any input would help. Thanks!

 

[HupHolland]

Does anyone know what ADA does when a person requests score auditing for NBDE Part I? Do they just go back to recheck answers by hand? Or do they actually figure out if some questions might be "unfair" for whatever and reason and make the item an "unscored question" like we sometimes see on released tests?

Has anyone ever requested a score audit and received a lower score? A higher score? No change?


Any input would help. Thanks!

I'm usually an optimistic person, but I can almost guarantee you that your score will not change when you request an audit.

-Hup!

 

[dreamdr]

I had requested a score audit ,last year when i thoght the exam i got was very tough and some questions did not have appropriate answer choices,but nothing happened and after 1 month of waiting my score report was returned saying that ada found no mistakes in there early marking ......🙄😡
so i think its a waste of time,energy and money....but then again you never know when you get lucky🙂
what exactly do you think went wrong with ur scores?

 

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I got a composite score of 86 (average of all 4 subjects was ~82). When I compared my raw average with other ppls scores on this forum, there seemed to be people who got 91s and 92s with the same raw average of 82. The 5-6 point discrepency seems a bit large to me, but maybe there is that much variability between different exams? I guess an audit would help me to just accept the fact, in the event that I really earned an 86. I had gone into the exam really aiming for 90s--even a 90 would be terrific.

While we're on the topic of board scores...would you retake with a score of 86? Part of me thinks it is far enough from the 90s that there was more than a "luck factor" involved. But I do remember guessing on some random Qs and checking them after the exam to learn that I guessed correctly. So maybe I should feel lucky that I even got an 86, which in the big scheme of things, isn't awful, though I can't say I'm not disappointed 🙁