Nbme Offline Score Conversion Step 2 (2024)

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What score is 75% on step 2? ›

The 75th percentile corresponds to around 258 and at this point, anything above that is gravy. The 25th percentile corresponds to around the score 235. Most students should aim to have this as their floor, if possible, especially international medical graduate students.

Second, note that the Step 2 CK NBMEs likely underpredict one's score. The lower range is 233, only three points below the predicted score. However, the upper bound is 261, 15 points higher than estimated.

NBME self-assessments are the forms available on the NBME website and serve as a comprehensive simulation for the Step 2 CK, covering almost all the topics that are asked on the test.

To pass the Step 2 CK exam, you must answer at least 60% of the questions correctly, giving you a minimum score of 214. If you want a good chance of securing your desired residency placement, you should aim for a score of at least 245.

Many students ask, “Which is the most important NBME?” or “How do I decide which NBMEs to take?” Based on informal student reporting, NBME 28 and UWSA 2 are the most correlated with Step 1 performance.

How do you interpret a shelf exam score? The NBME shelf exams were originally scaled to a mean of 70 and a standard deviation of 8. Keep in mind, this is not recalculated every year. The actual average in a given year has tended to creep up and is usually somewhere in the low-to-mid 70s.

Reported Step 1 scores range from 1-300 with a mean of 231 and a standard devia on of 20.

The 25th percentile is around 232, while the 75th percentile is near 256. These percentiles mean that if you score at or below 232, you're in the bottom 1/4 of test takers, while if you score at or above 256, you're in the top 1/4. If you score 243, you're right in the middle of the pack.

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What is the 75th percentile score for Step 2? ›

The 25th percentile is around 232, while the 75th percentile is near 256. These percentiles mean that if you score at or below 232, you're in the bottom 1/4 of test takers, while if you score at or above 256, you're in the top 1/4.

An examinee with a Step 2 CK score of 240 is at the 28th percentile. The 28th percentile means that 28% of the Step 2 CK first-takers from LCME-accredited US/Canadian medical schools in the three-year cohort described previously scored lower than 240.

What Is the Mean Score for Step 2? The mean score for Step 2 of the USMLE is 245, with the passing score at 209.