Step II Score Recheck

[Nuriko]

Hey yall,

So I just failed the CS exam, and have put in new registration so that I can reschedule ASAP. However, Im wondering if it may be worth it to do a recheck. Has anyone ever tried doing this, and has it ever yielded results? Im not sure how successful it will be, but i really find it very hard to believe that I could actually fail the CS. Any thoughts?

-Nuriko

 

[Antoni B]

I guess it depends on what you failed. If the ICE part, which includes the written note, then maybe it might help. Maybe different graders grade differently. But I'd say the odds are pretty slim. The NBME supposedly worked very hard to make the exam and its grading standardized. I was on one of their advisory committees when the exam was being formulated (way back when before I disappeared into PhD-land), and was assured on multiple occasions that their psychometricians had worked overtime to make sure results were reproducible. The med students on the committee tried very hard to stop the exam in its tracks, but our objections about standardization (which would be the issue if rechecks were common and successful) were dismissed pretty thoroughly.

You'd have much, much better luck just carefully preparing and taking the exam again.

 

[moosepatrol77]

Hey yall,

So I just failed the CS exam, and have put in new registration so that I can reschedule ASAP. However, Im wondering if it may be worth it to do a recheck. Has anyone ever tried doing this, and has it ever yielded results? Im not sure how successful it will be, but i really find it very hard to believe that I could actually fail the CS. Any thoughts?

-Nuriko

I've read before that they just recalculate the points from the individual sections. They don't regrade anything from what I understand. Probably a waste of $50...