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The USMLE says that they made the test in a way that someone that score a 200 today have the same knowledge from some one that score a 200 a couple of years ago, actually they say 4 years ago.

1-The test has less buzzwords
2-The test has more clinical scenarios
3-The test is more multy steps reasoning
4-The test is more difficult
5-They raise the minimum passing score

How they have the ___________ to tell me that to have a passing score today, you knew the same as a guy before, and that a 200 today is like a 200 several years ago.

I think that is boloni.

Yes In theory is standardized test but if that’s the case then based on the five reasons I just gave you are suppose to score less to get the same score.

My 2 cents.
Who wants to enlighten me?
thanks

 

[Krazykritter]

The USMLE says that they made the test in a way that someone that score a 200 today have the same knowledge from some one that score a 200 a couple of years ago, actually they say 4 years ago.

1-The test has less buzzwords
2-The test has more clinical scenarios
3-The test is more multy steps reasoning
4-The test is more difficult
5-They raise the minimum passing score

How they have the ___________ to tell me that to have a passing score today, you knew the same as a guy before, and that a 200 today is like a 200 several years ago.

I think that is boloni.

Yes In theory is standardized test but if that’s the case then based on the five reasons I just gave you are suppose to score less to get the same score.

My 2 cents.
Who wants to enlighten me?
thanks

I think you should listen to the Oscar Meyer commercial a few more times...LOL.

B-O-L-O-G-N-A It's been a long day of studying & that almost made my day.

I hear you on the scores, but I think old tests were hard in different ways than ours. Doesn't Goljan tell a few stories about ridiculous stuff they used to have on their boards? Ouch...

 

[Miami_med]

Does it really matter, as 99% of the people applying with you to residency will have taken the test within 6 months of you?

 

[lord_jeebus]

tandardized test but if that’s the case then based on the five reasons I just gave you are suppose to score less to get the same score.

You answered your own question.

The pass line has nothing to do with the significance of the scaled score.

 

[Droopy Snoopy]

Just trying to figure out what curse word is supposed to go into your blank. The exam is equally harder now for everyone taking the exam, so like previous posters suggested, the relative scores have remained constant. I do see your point about the higher passing score, but that's so recent (what, January?) that any year-to-year stats you've seen probably don't yet reflect the change.

 

[soeagerun2or]

Who wants to enlighten me?

The USMLE exams are minimal competency exams. This means they gauge the amount of material that every doctor should know and design a test around it. The test is meant to be interpreted as a pass/fail metric of basic medical knowledge. Unfortunately, however, many residency programs try to use the exam in a quantitative sense arguing that a higher score on the exam equates to higher intelligence, better performance in residency, or a higher level of medical proficiency. This notion is wholly false in that the USMLE indicates it should not be used as such and sample set of questions for the USMLE are not large enough to clearly distribute students in a normal fashion. So while it can be argued a higher score on the exam equates to more knowledge of the subject matter, the exam in itself isn't representative of what it is being used for; namely the residency selection process.

To answer your question, the reason we have to know more to earn a 200 now than what the people 10 years ago had to know is that the breadth of knowledge has increased. Essentially, the average medical student knows more which in turn requires more be known for the same score.