How the NBME 27 score calculator converts wrong answers
Form 27 runs 200 questions, and the NBME 27 score calculator applies one straight line: 275.1651 minus 1.1125 points per wrong answer.
Nothing else enters it. The NBME 27 score calculator cannot see which systems you missed, how long you took, or the block order.
Percent correct is the same input in other clothes: on a 200-item paper the NBME 27 score calculator reads one point as two questions.
Two questions are worth about 2.2 scaled points, so ten questions move the NBME 27 score calculator by roughly eleven.
The pass probability beside the estimate is a separate logistic curve centred on 196. It sits next to the NBME 27 score calculator, not inside its line.
It moves fast near the line. The NBME 27 score calculator pairs 203 with 78 per cent, 197 with 54, and 192 with 33.
No score report is needed. To run the NBME 27 score calculator by hand, multiply wrong answers by 1.1125 and subtract from 275.1651.
Offline that gives 226 at 44 wrong, 214 at 55 and 202 at 66 — the same figures the NBME 27 score calculator returns.
The CBSSA forms publish no conversion table, so the NBME 27 score calculator is a reconstruction rather than an official lookup. See the modelling notes.