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Hey everyone,
I was wondering if someone could explain to me how a 65-70% is correlated to a Step 1 score of 194, the minimum passing score. It doesn't quite make sense to me logically.
From 65-70% to 100% is 30-35%. This is between 84 and 98 questions on Step 1, which is 280 questions. The highest step 1 score possible is a 300. However for arguments sake, let's be so generous and bump that down to 280 as the highest score possible for anyone taking the test.
From 280 to 194 is 86 points. From just passing at 65-70% correct to 100% correct is 84 to 98 questions. That means just about for every one question you get correct from 65% to 100% is correlated to only getting 1 point of Step score. I mean by this logic Missing ~20 questions (92.86%) is a 260. Missing ~30 questions (89.2%) is a 250. Missing ~40 questions (85.7%) is a 240.
Is this really how step 1 is scored or am I missing something here...It just seems 65-70% for passing is a pretty high mark to reach...
Edit: Well actually now that I think about it, this may actually be how it is. The average score is around a 230. that's missing ~50 questions on step 1, roughly 82.1%. The average scorer would be getting 82.1% on step 1 by this logic.
I was wondering if someone could explain to me how a 65-70% is correlated to a Step 1 score of 194, the minimum passing score. It doesn't quite make sense to me logically.
From 65-70% to 100% is 30-35%. This is between 84 and 98 questions on Step 1, which is 280 questions. The highest step 1 score possible is a 300. However for arguments sake, let's be so generous and bump that down to 280 as the highest score possible for anyone taking the test.
From 280 to 194 is 86 points. From just passing at 65-70% correct to 100% correct is 84 to 98 questions. That means just about for every one question you get correct from 65% to 100% is correlated to only getting 1 point of Step score. I mean by this logic Missing ~20 questions (92.86%) is a 260. Missing ~30 questions (89.2%) is a 250. Missing ~40 questions (85.7%) is a 240.
Is this really how step 1 is scored or am I missing something here...It just seems 65-70% for passing is a pretty high mark to reach...
Edit: Well actually now that I think about it, this may actually be how it is. The average score is around a 230. that's missing ~50 questions on step 1, roughly 82.1%. The average scorer would be getting 82.1% on step 1 by this logic.
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