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Can someone explain the USMLE scoring system to me please? What's passing, what's an acceptable score, and what does a 99 mean? I see that often and it confuses me.
There're two scores, one is three digits and the other is two digits. They are just different ways of representing how you did on the exam. Passing for step 1 is 188/75. The national mean is 221. Acceptability of the score really depends on what speciality you want. The more competitive, the higher your score needs to be.
So what does 99 correlate with then? Is that the highest score you can get since it's the highest two digit?
All the information you could wish for regarding step 1 and residency (as well as research, school, AOA, etc.):One last question -- while 188 is passing, since the national mean is 221, do people who don't break 200 end up matching at all? In other words, even though 188 is passing, what do you need to match somewhere?
Is general surgery considered competitive to match according to average usmle scores? what about em?
Christ on a stick, you people are never happy. Click on the link, scroll down to general surgery/EM, and look at the pretty charts.
I looked at it but I don't know the test. For example, 30 is the magic number for the mcat.. but its somewhat difficult to obtain. What about usmle, do you need the magical "30" to get into specialties like those and derm/opth would be like a "36" or is g.s and e.m. like a high 20's. Stupid analogy but I'm just trying to get an idea of what it takes.
The chart in the PDFs linked to gives you the mean as well as the 25th and 75th percentiles. Do you want someone to interpret the graph for you?
Are you asking what MCAT score is the minimum necessary to get into a derm residency?
I'm curious as to what ACT score it correlates with. Will like a 35 on your ACT get you into a derm residency?
I want to know what sort of test scores in 7th grade correspond to a derm residency. I got a D+ in history, but A's in math and B's in science.
The chart in the PDFs linked to gives you the mean as well as the 25th and 75th percentiles. Do you want someone to interpret the graph for you?
Are you asking what MCAT score is the minimum necessary to get into a derm residency?
Alright guy, if you have nothing useful to say why even bud in. The mean doesn't mean **** to me, the mean mcat doesnt get you into medical school 9 times out of 10, a 30 does sometimes. Do you see where I'm going with this?
I'm not asking for a correlation either
Theres no cuttoff that any residency director will admit to on record and you wont find that info printed anywhere.You'll hear as many stories about people who scored a 220 and matched into derm as those who scored 240 that didnt. So you're just going to have to be happy with the published data just like the rest of us. ie THE MEAN scores for succesful applicants
Yeah thanks, I mean I wasn't exactly asking about cutoffs. What I meant was.. well for example according to AAMC Careers in medicine website gen surgery average usmle step 1 score was 224. Now I know obviously everything is up in the air, and the average is what the average is, but is a 224 doable for most people thats what I was really asking - or is it a WOW good job you scored that high kinda score.. in general terms. Like derms mean is a 242 which I assume is a "wow score" which is pretty difficult to obtain.
224 is a very good score.
Dont get fooled by what you see here on SDN.