Usmle Step 1 Percentile

This shows us the negative skew towards the lower scores.

Usmle step 1 percentile. The usmle has released the actual percentile rank for all the usmle step 1 2 and 3 scores. And canadian first time test takers was 230 with a standard deviation of 19. How your usmle step 1 percentile could make or break your residency application. Again the calculated percentiles are slightly higher than the actual percentiles between 225 and 255.

On usmle step 2 the distribution of scores also has a negative skew. For example a score of 220 on step 1 is not equivalent to a score of 220 on step 2 ck or on step 3. Here are the percentiles for step 1 step 2 ck and step 3. Specifically we can look at the percentiles for usmle as reported by the nbme.

Compared to step 1 the differences are less obvious. The easiest way to answer what a good score is to look at the percentiles of all test takers. We wrote an analysis of the released data discussing how all of the exams were fairly close to a normalized distribution but none of the usmle scores conformed perfectly to a normalized distribution. Throughout the first two years of medical school you might find yourself thinking about usmle step 1 of all of the exams in med school and there s certainly no shortage this one tends to create the most anxiety.

A comparison of scores across steps is not appropriate.