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Hoping someone can help me out with this. I recently took the Usmle world self assessment test and didn't do as great as I was hoping to. I got 43 questions wrong out of 176, which is almost an entire block. Even so I clicked on the tab to see my 3 digit score and it listed a 247? Doesn't seem to make sense at all for that many questions wrong. Is this a mistake on their part or whats going on?

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So I averaged 79.5% on all the sections at it gave me a 256, which would mean I got 36 questions wrong. So yeah, I guess your score is about right
 
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Like the USMLE, I'm pretty sure UWSA grades you based on the question, not the overall percent correct.

For example, you are deducted fewer points for getting a question incorrect that only 12% of the population answered correctly.
 
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Valadi said:
Like the USMLE, I'm pretty sure UWSA grades you based on the question, not the overall percent correct.

For example, you are deducted fewer points for getting a question incorrect that only 12% of the population answered correctly.
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Thats actually false. They state somewhere on their website that all questions are counted equally.
 
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Valadi said:
Like the USMLE, I'm pretty sure UWSA grades you based on the question, not the overall percent correct.

For example, you are deducted fewer points for getting a question incorrect that only 12% of the population answered correctly.
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This is not how the USMLE works. They don't count the experimental questions, but aside from those, all questions carry the same weight regardless of "difficulty".
 
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Captopril said:
This is not how the USMLE works. They don't count the experimental questions, but aside from those, all questions carry the same weight regardless of "difficulty".
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I used to think that before I saw a couple score report sheets from the USMLE. I got a score in the 240's and my bar chart was all to the right with quite a few stars, only one bar was partially in the gray area. Otherwise I would describe it being off the charts. A friend of mine got the same exact score as me and had bars all over the place - with like 4 in the borderline area, crossing into the low performance zone and not as many stars. Makes me believe that there is weightage for different questions depending on how others do. I felt like I got an easy exam so the curve was probably tougher
 
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joecole said:
I used to think that before I saw a couple score report sheets from the USMLE. I got a score in the 240's and my bar chart was all to the right with quite a few stars, only one bar was partially in the gray area. Otherwise I would describe it being off the charts. A friend of mine got the same exact score as me and had bars all over the place - with like 4 in the borderline area, crossing into the low performance zone and not as many stars. Makes me believe that there is weightage for different questions depending on how others do. I felt like I got an easy exam so the curve was probably tougher
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Hmm..you could be right. I've just always been told that the questions carry the same weight. Sorry if I spread misinformation, just passing along what I've been told.
 
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I used UWSA as my diagnostic today, first day of my step 2 studyin and got a 231. Knowing that it already beat my Step 1 score is pretty fkn awesome lol.

My break down was

block 1: 56%
block 2: 72%
block 3: 77%
block 4: 70%

54 questions wrong

Once again, I stumble out of the gate, it's been my Achilles heel for 3 years! Arg

So is the agreement that the UWSA overpredicts though? If that's the case I'm going to stick to my one month study plan. If it's relatively accurate.. i don't think I need a month
 
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Bump...

Just took UWSA form 1. I've looked at some of the other threads and have seen that it seemed to underestimate scores. Is this the consensus?
 
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hawk126 said:
Bump...

Just took UWSA form 1. I've looked at some of the other threads and have seen that it seemed to underestimate scores. Is this the consensus?
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well now I'm just confused lol.... form 1? I thought there only was one?
 
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There is only one.

I got a 259 on the UWSA and a 264 in the actual. Pretty close...
 
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