scoring confusion

smartkap · Posted : Mon May 19, 2008 Post subject: scoring confusion

Hi, can anyone please tell me that at least how many questions should be correct to get a score a score above 240 on 3-digit or 99 on 2-digit in usmle. I have understood the relation between 3-digit and 2-digit score, but i'm not getting that how these scores are related to the number of correct questions? e.g. if one has got 200 as 3 digit score, does that mean that 200 out of total 350 questions are correct?
I will be glad if someone can help me. When I practice questions of different subjects at home, I usually get around 70% questions correct. If same thing happens in my exam, what will be my expected 3-digit and 2-digit score.

root · Posted : Mon May 19, 2008 Post subject:

70-75% should typically a passing score. But again it depends which exams you had taken. If you scored 70% with kaplan, I am hopeful that you will score more than 200 in real exam.