Will answering 70% on released 1998 get me a passing score?

[hesjustadentist]

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as the thread title says. Scored approx. 70% on the 1998 released exam and was wondering if that's enough for a passing score on the real NBDE Part 1.

Trying to gauge whether I can relax and refuel my energy levels this last week before the exam or if I should be frantically re-reading the material.

thanks.

 

[jpark9]

as the thread title says. Scored approx. 70% on the 1998 released exam and was wondering if that's enough for a passing score on the real NBDE Part 1.

Trying to gauge whether I can relax and refuel my energy levels this last week before the exam or if I should be frantically re-reading the material.

thanks.

Yes It will. I have attached the score conversion from 1998. It was about 5 points more generous back then than now. So you can calculate your score based on the chart and then subtract 5 points from it to see where about you stand. Good luck

 

[hesjustadentist]

I had no idea score conversion sheets existed. Thanks a bunch!

 

[The Toof Doctor]

70's on the 1998 will definitely pass you. In fact, if you can get into the high 70's or mid 80's on it, you can get in the 90's on this year's exam! That's what I was doing, and I just got my score yesterday with a 91. So you're all set!!!
Best of luck! 😀

 

[hesjustadentist]

Thanks Toof doctor for the encouraging words. I just don't know why I would bother scoring in the 90's...

None of the specialties seem intellectually stimulating enough to spend any more years in this ultraconservative field than I have to. My goal is to graduate, work part-time and start another field of study that's more cerebral.

Sincerely yours,

JADAed with dentistry

 

[TJ witherspoon]

Yes It will. I have attached the score conversion from 1998. It was about 5 points more generous back then than now. So you can calculate your score based on the chart and then subtract 5 points from it to see where about you stand. Good luck

so how does this actually work? I must be interpreting something wrong, because on the score conversion sheet the raw numbers correlating to a given composite score for each section are quite low. i.e. for the anatomy section, to get a 90 composite score for this section you can miss 27 questions out of 100 (73/100= 90 composite). Are people referring to their 73 as the raw or their 90 as the raw? it would seem people are referring to their composite section scores (i.e. the 90 in this example) as raw, and then from those four composite(raw) section scores a total single composite score is given.
Any clarifications?

 

[hesjustadentist]

Does anyone have the other score conversion sheets?

Does the 2006 I-M released only contain 200 qustions? I've been only scoring slightly over 60 percencet right on that one. Still passing or cutting it close?

 

[jpark9]

so how does this actually work? I must be interpreting something wrong, because on the score conversion sheet the raw numbers correlating to a given composite score for each section are quite low. i.e. for the anatomy section, to get a 90 composite score for this section you can miss 27 questions out of 100 (73/100= 90 composite). Are people referring to their 73 as the raw or their 90 as the raw? it would seem people are referring to their composite section scores (i.e. the 90 in this example) as raw, and then from those four composite(raw) section scores a total single composite score is given.
Any clarifications?

getting 73/100 would have given you 90% on anatomy back in 98. However, your score sheet will only give your raw score of each section (in this case 73/100 for your anatomy) and the average of the curved scores of 4 sections which is your comprehensive score.

For instance, let's say you got the following:

anatomy: 73/100
biochem/physio: 78/100
micro/path: 70/100
DA: 79/100

the curved scores are 90, 94, 90, and 86 respectively. Then you take the average of the four sections and you get 90 as a comprehensive score. This would have been correct in 98 but it was about 5 points more generous back then so getting the same raw score in 2009 will get you about 85 as a raw score.

Let me give you my case to confirm the calculation.

anatomy: 84/100
biochem/physio: 77/100
micro/pat: 82/100
DA: 87/100

The curved score based on the chart would be 97, 93, 98, and 92. The average is 95 but my comprehensive score was 91. The curve varies from one exam to another and the version I took was apparently more difficult than the others. I compared with the other students at my school and my friend who got 331/400 got 90 whereas my 330/400 came out to be 91. Thus the calculation makes sense. I hope this helps.

 

[TJ witherspoon]

that makes excellent sense. thank you. too bad the curve has changed though.