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NBME 27 Score Calculator for the Mid-Dedicated Check

Halfway through dedicated the real question is whether the booked date still holds. This NBME 27 score calculator turns a wrong-answer count on the 200-question form into an estimated three-digit Step 1 score, and 71 wrong lands exactly on 196.

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= 85.0% correct • 170 correct

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Form 27 is the Step 1 paper most often sat while the exam date can still be moved, which is why the NBME 27 score calculator gets used as a decision instrument rather than as a progress report.

NBME 27 score reference

Estimated three-digit score and pass probability at each wrong-answer count for NBME 27 (CBSSA Form 27).

NBME 27 wrong answers to estimated score reference
WrongCorrect %Est. scorePass prob.
0100.0%27599%
597.5%27099%
1095.0%26499%
1592.5%25899%
2090.0%25399%
2587.5%24799%
3085.0%24299%
3582.5%23699%
4080.0%23199%
4577.5%22599%
5075.0%22099%
5572.5%21496%
6070.0%20890%
6567.5%20378%
7065.0%19754%
7562.5%19233%
8060.0%18614%
8557.5%1816%
9055.0%1752%
9552.5%1691%
10050.0%1641%
10547.5%1581%
11045.0%1531%
11542.5%1471%
12040.0%1421%
12537.5%1361%
13035.0%1311%
13532.5%1251%
14030.0%1191%
14527.5%1141%
15025.0%1081%
15522.5%1031%
16020.0%971%
16517.5%921%
17015.0%861%
17512.5%801%
18010.0%751%
1857.5%691%
1905.0%641%
1952.5%581%
2000.0%531%

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

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.

NBME 27 score calculator chart and conversion table

Every row here comes from the engine behind the NBME 27 score calculator, so the chart and the tool cannot drift apart.

Zero wrong is 275, and the NBME 27 score calculator then reads 264, 253, 242, 231, 220, 208 and 197 at each further ten wrong.

Past the line it keeps falling: the NBME 27 score calculator gives 186 at 80 wrong, 175 at 90 and 164 at 100.

As percentages, the NBME 27 score calculator puts 90 per cent correct at 253, 80 per cent at 231 and 70 per cent at 208.

The reference table above prints the same NBME 27 conversion chart in five-question steps, and the NBME 27 score calculator supplies every pass probability on it.

Sixty per cent correct passes everywhere else in medical school. Here the NBME 27 score calculator returns 186, about ten points under the standard.

Its bands come off the same line: the NBME 27 score calculator reaches 238 at 33 wrong, 223 at 47, 210 at 59 and 196 at 71.

Raw counts do not travel. Give 70 wrong to the NBME 27 score calculator and it says 197, where Form 28 says 201 and Form 31 says 195.

How accurate the NBME 27 score calculator is

The NBME 27 score calculator fits a line to one number, and that number is the whole of its information.

Timed in a single block or split across two evenings, the NBME 27 score calculator returns identical digits for an identical count.

Our source table for Form 27 quotes no confidence interval, so the NBME 27 score calculator draws no band around its estimate.

Read it as a neighbourhood several points wide. The last point out of the NBME 27 score calculator is rounding, not measurement.

Rounding also skips values: 68 wrong reads 200 and 69 reads 198, so the NBME 27 score calculator never prints 199.

The straight-line assumption holds through the middle of the scale, where nearly every real result lands; the NBME 27 score calculator is weakest at the extremes.

A trend across two or three comparable sittings carries more signal than any single reading from the NBME 27 score calculator.

Precision is not accuracy. The NBME 27 score calculator converts an untimed, split-block sitting into just as confident a three-digit figure.

So record the conditions beside the score. Without them, output from the NBME 27 score calculator is a number with no context attached.

When to sit Form 27, and what the estimate justifies

Form 27 usually lands two to four weeks out, which is the window where the NBME 27 score calculator can still change a decision.

Ten or more points clear of 196 means the work left is consolidation, and the NBME 27 score calculator has little more to add.

Within a few points of 196 the margin is thinner than the error, so the NBME 27 score calculator leaves the outcome undecided.

Below 196 nothing is settled either, but the NBME 27 score calculator is pointing at content coverage rather than at polish.

Conditions come first: an untimed or split sitting tells you little, whatever the NBME 27 score calculator prints beside it.

Direction comes second. Three rising estimates from the NBME 27 score calculator and its neighbours say the plan works and needs more time.

A flat line across the same span says the plan needs changing, and the NBME 27 score calculator cannot make that call for you.

Timed, below 196, flat, under a fortnight left: that combination is where the NBME 27 score calculator earns the word decision.

Check whether the remaining weeks fit, then take the NBME 27 score calculator result to the next checkpoint.

The form before this one charges 1.138 per miss against 1.1125 in the NBME 27 score calculator, so identical sittings read a point apart.

The NBME 27 score calculator is an independent study tool. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NBME® or USMLE®. Educational estimates only.

Frequently asked questions

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

How many wrong answers can I afford on NBME 27?

Seventy-one of 200 puts the NBME 27 score calculator at exactly 196, the USMLE Step 1 passing standard. That is 129 correct, or 64.5 per cent.

For 210 the ceiling is 59 wrong, for 223 it is 47 and for 238 it is 33. The NBME 27 score calculator charges 1.11 points per miss.

What does the NBME 27 score calculator return at 60 per cent?

Sixty per cent correct is 80 wrong, and the NBME 27 score calculator returns 186 — about ten points below the passing standard.

The line crosses 196 at 64.5 per cent, so the NBME 27 score calculator puts 60 per cent nine questions short rather than marginally under.

Is one mid-dedicated NBME 27 result enough to postpone?

On its own, no. The NBME 27 score calculator reads one noisy sitting and cannot tell a bad morning from a real gap in content.

Timed, below 196, flat across two or three forms, under two weeks left — that is when the NBME 27 score calculator supports moving a date.

When is the best time to take NBME 27?

Two to four weeks out, once a question-bank pass is mostly done, is when the NBME 27 score calculator produces something you can still act on.

Sat earlier, the NBME 27 score calculator mostly measures how much syllabus you have reached rather than how well you know it.

Does the NBME 27 score calculator predict Step 1 accurately?

We hold no dataset linking Form 27 results to real Step 1 outcomes, so the NBME 27 score calculator makes no claim about its own hit rate.

It does sit mid-pack. At 70 wrong the NBME 27 score calculator returns 197, against 201 on Form 28 and 195 on Form 31.

Can I use the NBME 27 score calculator without a report?

Yes. The NBME 27 score calculator needs only the wrong-answer count out of 200: multiply by 1.1125, subtract from 275.1651, then round.

Subject-level breakdowns on the report help you plan review, but the NBME 27 score calculator ignores them when it produces the three-digit estimate.

Why does the NBME 27 score calculator skip some numbers?

Rounding on a 1.1125 slope steps over values: 68 wrong reads 200 and 69 reads 198, so the NBME 27 score calculator never prints 199.

That gap belongs to the fit. It is a reminder that the final point from the NBME 27 score calculator is arithmetic, not measurement.

What is a good NBME 27 predicted Step 1 score?

Ten points clear of 196 with a fortnight left is comfortable, and the NBME 27 score calculator marks 210, 223 and 238 as the next rungs.

Good is positional. The NBME 27 score calculator says where you stand today; the trend across forms says where you are heading.

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