Showing posts with label usmle score. Show all posts
Showing posts with label usmle score. Show all posts

Thursday, July 16, 2009

How to interpret USMLE scores


You will get the following info in your USMLE report :
your 3-digit score
your 2-digit score
Mean and Standard Deviation for recent US/Can registrants (not IMGs) - first time test takers.


This is a common misperception to call 2-digit score percent or percentile - 2 totally different things, by the way; it's neither percent, nor percentile!

From biostatistics you should know that percentile is the percent of people from total 100% who received scores lower than yours.

By using your 3-digit score, Mean and Standard Deviation and special statistical table, you can calculate your percentile, and by using your 2-digit score, you can calculate appr. percent of correctly answered questions.