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Free 120 Step 1 Score Calculator: Percent Correct to a Score

The Free 120 Step 1 score calculator converts a percentage, or a miss count out of 120, into an estimated three-digit score against the 196 passing standard.

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= 85.0% correct • 102 correct

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The Free 120 Step 1 score calculator runs on percent correct rather than a wrong-answer curve: percentage times 0.75, plus 145. Every result therefore lands between 145 and 220, and 68.3 per cent correct converts to 196.

Free 120 score reference

Estimated three-digit score and pass probability at each wrong-answer count for USMLE Free 120 (Step 1).

Free 120 wrong answers to estimated score reference
WrongCorrect %Est. scorePass prob.
0100.0%22099%
595.8%21798%
1091.7%21496%
1587.5%21194%
2083.3%20890%
2579.2%20481%
3075.0%20171%
3570.8%19859%
4066.7%19546%
4562.5%19233%
5058.3%18922%
5554.2%18614%
6050.0%1839%
6545.8%1794%
7041.7%1763%
7537.5%1732%
8033.3%1701%
8529.2%1671%
9025.0%1641%
9520.8%1611%
10016.7%1581%
10512.5%1541%
1108.3%1511%
1154.2%1481%
1200.0%1451%

Estimates only. Rows step by five wrong answers; your exact result is calculated above.

How the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator converts a percentage

The Free 120 Step 1 score calculator computes percent correct times 0.75, plus 145, then rounds.

Nothing else enters it. No per-system weighting and no difficulty adjustment reach the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator.

Each of the 120 questions is worth 0.625 points, so eight questions move the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator five points.

A blank paper returns 145 and a flawless one 220, so the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator reports nothing outside that window.

196 arrives at 68.3 per cent, or 38 misses — the line the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator exists to locate you against.

Pass probability is a separate logistic curve centred on 196, which the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator reports as modelled rather than observed.

No official percent-to-score table exists, so the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator is fitted to reported outcomes; see the modelling notes.

Against a scored assessment, put it beside your NBME forms rather than comparing raw percentages.

Free 120 Step 1 score calculator chart, percent to score

None of the rows below were typed in by hand; the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator generates every one of them.

By percentage the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator returns: 100% 220 · 90% 213 · 80% 205 · 70% 198 · 60% 190.

By misses the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator returns: 0 missed 220 · 12 missed 213 · 24 missed 205 · 36 missed 198 · 48 missed 190.

Pass probability tracks alongside: the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator reads 83 per cent at 24 misses and 50 at 38.

Every row of that Free 120 conversion chart also sits in the reference table higher up, one line per five misses.

What a good result on the final rehearsal is

Step 1 is pass/fail, so a good Free 120 Step 1 score calculator result is a margin over 196 rather than a headline.

At 210 or above in the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator — 16 missed at most — content has stopped being the constraint.

From 200 to 209, 17 to 32 misses, the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator is reflecting scattered errors rather than systemic ones.

From 196 to 199 one or two questions separate a pass estimate from a fail estimate, which is no margin at all.

Resist precision at the top: the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator flattens 213 and 220 into the same verdict.

How accurate the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator is, and when

Less accurate than its official origin suggests, for structural reasons rather than incidental ones.

No confidence interval is configured, so the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator prints one number and no range.

An honest range would swallow the useful part of a 75-point scale, which is the whole span the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator works inside.

The sample is 120 items. Two lucky guesses move the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator by more than a point.

It exists to demonstrate item style, not to rank you, so read a strong Free 120 Step 1 score calculator result as a floor.

On timing, the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator belongs in the last week or two of dedicated study.

Taken early, the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator measures how much reviewing is left, not how ready you are.

Sit it timed, in one session, so the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator sees exam conditions rather than study conditions.

An untimed percentage collected across two evenings is not comparable, and the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator cannot detect that.

Leave three days before the exam so a Free 120 Step 1 score calculator result is not the last thing you remember.

Most pair it with the assessment form from the same fortnight, and disagreement of several points is normal.

The Step 2 CK Free 120 works the same way on its own scale, with its own coefficients and bounds.

Frequently asked questions

Straight answers about what this estimate can and cannot tell you.

What percent correct passes on the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator?

68.3 per cent, or 38 misses out of 120, is where the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator reaches 196.

Below it the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator falls away: 65 per cent reads 194 and 60 per cent reads 190.

How many questions can the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator allow me to miss?

About 38 or 39. Both round to 196 in the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator, and 40 drops the estimate to 195.

One question decides the side of the line, so treat any Free 120 Step 1 score calculator result within two points of 196 as unresolved.

Why does the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator stop at 220?

The Free 120 Step 1 score calculator is bounded by design: a flawless paper converts to 220 and a blank one to 145.

Across that 75-point scale the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator cannot separate a very strong paper from an exceptional one.

When should I sit the Free 120 before my Step 1 exam?

In the final week or two, timed and in one session, so the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator confirms readiness rather than measures unfinished review.

Leave three days before test day so a soft Free 120 Step 1 score calculator result still leaves room to act.

How does a Free 120 percentage compare with an NBME form?

It does not. Across this site's Step 1 NBME models the 196 line arrives between 62.5 and 65.5 per cent correct.

The Free 120 Step 1 score calculator puts it at 68.3 per cent, because percent correct describes the paper rather than you.

Can the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator work from a miss count?

Yes. Enter misses out of 120 and the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator derives the percentage for you.

There is no score report for this paper in the sense the NBME forms have one, so a raw tally is the usual input.

What does 80 per cent correct give in the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator?

Two hundred and five. Eighty per cent is 24 misses, and the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator adds 83 per cent pass probability.

Five points either side move the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator little: 209 at 85 per cent, 201 at 75.

Is this the official Free 120 Step 1 score calculator conversion?

No. The sponsors publish no percent-to-score table, so no Free 120 Step 1 score calculator anywhere is official, this one included.

This Free 120 Step 1 score calculator names both coefficients and links its assumptions. Not affiliated with the NBME® or USMLE®.

Cross-check this estimate against another form, or read how the models are built.

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Thirty-nine wrong of 120 reads 196, and the Free 120 Step 1 score calculator is free to run again.

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