Conversion for NBME subject exams...

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ok my bad then, should have kept quiet. we didn't use the curved scores, i'll edit that.

sebsvenmdc said:

So, say for instance that my school's average raw score given by the NBME for a subject exam, say pathology is 72. What does this correspond to in terms of a 3 digit score. You know how 500 is the mean for subject shelf exams...does this correspond to 70?

Can people please tell me their raw scores in pathology and their 3-digit scores?

I'm trying to figure out my 3 digit score...I only have the 2-digit raw score! Thanks a bunch!

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How did you get your score already? I haven't gotten an email and it isn't online yet.

I copied this from my old micro shelf results:

Your Shelf exam score is provided as a three digit number based on a distribution around a mean of 500, with a standard deviation of 100. This distribution is based on the results obtained from over 4000 examinees nationwide. The NBME also provides us with a table to convert the three digit score to percentage of questions answered correctly. It is this percentage that will be weighted and figured into your course cumulative score and will be distributed with your Shelf exam score.

The range of your class performance was from 280 to 830! Your class mean score was 540 which places you nicely above the national mean! For comparison of your score with all others who have taken the test, you can refer to this percentile ranking chart. .Locate your score and note the entry in the adjacent column that is "Percentile". For example, if a student's score is 500, the corresponding percentile entry of 53 indicates that 53% of the national group of students taking the Microbiology and Immunology Subject Examination as a final course exam are projected to have scores at or below 500..

Scores, Percentile Ranks, and extrapolated % correct answers for Microbiology and Immunology
Scores Percentile Correct Scores Percentile Correct

<<I couldn't fix the spacing here, but read it like 6 columns across, 510-740 on the left half and 280-500 on the right. So, a score of 730 was in the 98th percentile with 87.2% correct>>

.740 or above 99 &#8805;87.7% 500 53 69.6.
.730 98 87.2 490 50 68.9.
.720 98 86.5 480 45 67.9.
.710 98 86.2 470 42 66.6.
.700 97 85.8 460 37 65.5.
.690 97 85.1 450 33 64.9.
.680 96 84.5 440 31 63.9.
.670 95 83.8 430 26 62.5.
.660 94 83.1 420 22 61.5.
.650 94 82.4 410 20 60.5.
.640 93 81.8 400 16 59.5.
.630 91 81.1 390 15 58.4.
.620 90 80.4 380 11 57.1.
.610 88 79.7 370 9 56.1.
.600 87 78.7 360 8 55.1.
.590 84 77.7 350 6 53.7.
.580 81 77.0 340 4 52.4.
.570 79 76.4 330 4 51.4 .
.560 76 75.3 320 3 50.3.
.550 72 74.3 310 2 49.3.
.540 69 73.6 300 2 48.3.
.530 64 72.6 290 2 47.0.
.520 61 71.6 280 or below 1 &#8804;45.9.
.510 57 70.6.

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