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NBME 29 Score Calculator: Wrong Answers to a Step 1 Score

Enter a raw count and the NBME 29 score calculator returns an estimated three-digit score. On Form 29, 70 wrong out of 200 is exactly 196.

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= 85.0% correct • 170 correct

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Quick take on this form

Form 29 has the tidiest pass line of the seven Step 1 forms here, which is what makes the NBME 29 score calculator easy to reason with: 272.18 minus 1.09 per wrong answer puts 70 misses on exactly 196, or 65 per cent correct.

NBME 29 score reference

Estimated three-digit score and pass probability at each wrong-answer count for NBME 29 (CBSSA Form 29).

NBME 29 wrong answers to estimated score reference
WrongCorrect %Est. scorePass prob.
0100.0%27299%
597.5%26799%
1095.0%26199%
1592.5%25699%
2090.0%25099%
2587.5%24599%
3085.0%23999%
3582.5%23499%
4080.0%22999%
4577.5%22399%
5075.0%21898%
5572.5%21295%
6070.0%20788%
6567.5%20171%
7065.0%19650%
7562.5%19025%
8060.0%18512%
8557.5%1805%
9055.0%1742%
9552.5%1691%
10050.0%1631%
10547.5%1581%
11045.0%1521%
11542.5%1471%
12040.0%1411%
12537.5%1361%
13035.0%1301%
13532.5%1251%
14030.0%1201%
14527.5%1141%
15025.0%1091%
15522.5%1031%
16020.0%981%
16517.5%921%
17015.0%871%
17512.5%811%
18010.0%761%
1857.5%711%
1905.0%651%
1952.5%601%
2000.0%541%

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

How the NBME 29 score calculator converts wrong answers

Form 29 is a 200-item paper, and the NBME 29 score calculator applies one line: 272.18 minus 1.09 per wrong answer, rounded.

Nothing else feeds it. The NBME 29 score calculator sees a raw count, not your timing or the content sample you drew.

Each question costs about 1.09 points, so the NBME 29 score calculator moves five and a half points per five questions.

Four of the seven Step 1 forms charge more per miss and two charge less, which puts the NBME 29 score calculator fifth steepest.

Pass probability comes from a separate logistic curve centred on 196. The NBME 29 score calculator reports it as modelled, not observed.

No official CBSSA table exists, so the NBME 29 score calculator runs a reconstruction; the modelling notes set out the fitting.

Offline, no score report is needed: multiply by 1.09, subtract from 272.18, round. The NBME 29 score calculator adds only the probability curve.

By hand, the NBME 29 score calculator gives 220 at 48 wrong, 209 at 58 wrong and 198 at 68 wrong.

NBME 29 score calculator chart, wrong answers to a score

Every row below comes from the engine the NBME 29 score calculator runs on, so chart and tool cannot disagree.

In ten-question steps the NBME 29 score calculator returns: 0 wrong 272 · 20 wrong 250 · 40 wrong 229 · 60 wrong 207 · 80 wrong 185.

Closer to the line the NBME 29 score calculator steps in fives: 55 wrong 212 · 60 wrong 207 · 65 wrong 201 · 70 wrong 196.

As percentages the NBME 29 score calculator reads 90 per cent as 250, 80 per cent as 229 and 70 per cent as 207.

Every row of that NBME 29 score calculator chart also sits in the reference table higher up, with a pass probability beside it.

What a good Form 29 result looks like

196 is the USMLE Step 1 passing standard, and the NBME 29 score calculator reaches it at 70 wrong — 50 per cent pass probability.

Bands here sit higher: the NBME 29 score calculator reads 216 at 52 wrong and 230 at 39, which is 80.5 per cent correct.

Three weeks out, distance beats grade. Divide the gap by 1.09 and the NBME 29 score calculator turns points into questions.

Fifteen points is fourteen questions; thirty is twenty-eight. The NBME 29 score calculator cannot separate those cases, though your subject breakdown can.

How accurate the NBME 29 score calculator is, and when to sit

One fitted line, one raw count. The NBME 29 score calculator cannot see whether the form was timed or split across two evenings.

Our source table publishes no confidence interval, so the NBME 29 score calculator draws no band. Attach one mentally, several points wide.

Two forms pointing the same way are worth more than one precise-looking digit, which is the single most useful habit this late in dedicated study.

The linear fit holds mid-scale. At the extremes the NBME 29 score calculator extrapolates past the data behind it.

This site claims no measured accuracy. An NBME 29 score calculator quoting precision without a published dataset is making a marketing claim.

Form 29 belongs two to three weeks out. Later, the NBME 29 score calculator hands you a verdict instead of a plan.

Twenty-one days closes some gaps and not others, and the NBME 29 score calculator cannot show you which.

Repeat misses in two or three systems close in that time. So do timing casualties clustered at the end of blocks.

Broad, even misses are a coverage problem, and no NBME 29 score calculator estimate shortens how long coverage takes to rebuild.

Raw counts do not travel. Seventy wrong is 196 in the NBME 29 score calculator and 201 on the form before this one.

The same count reads 198 on the next form in the sequence, so convert each sitting with its own coefficients.

Then lay out the last three weeks against topics rather than against the NBME 29 score calculator output.

Frequently asked questions

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

What percent correct does the NBME 29 score calculator pass?

Exactly 65 per cent. Seventy wrong leaves 130 correct, which the NBME 29 score calculator returns as 196.

That is the cleanest pass line of the seven forms here, and the NBME 29 score calculator puts pass probability at 50 per cent.

How many questions does the NBME 29 score calculator need for a 210?

Divide the gap by 1.09. Fourteen points is thirteen more correct answers, so the NBME 29 score calculator moves from 70 wrong to 57.

Turning a target score into a target number of questions is what the NBME 29 score calculator is for three weeks out.

Is three weeks enough to move an NBME 29 score conversion?

Fifteen points is fourteen questions, usually reachable when misses cluster. The NBME 29 score calculator shows the gap either way.

Thirty points is twenty-eight questions across the paper, and the NBME 29 score calculator cannot make that close inside three weeks.

When should I sit NBME 29 for a useful predicted Step 1 score?

Two to three weeks out. Any later and the NBME 29 score calculator arrives after the point where you could act on it.

Sat in the final week the NBME 29 score calculator reads as a verdict rather than a plan, which is the least useful thing a form can be.

Does the NBME 29 score calculator read lower than NBME 28?

Yes, at a matched raw count. Form 29 subtracts 1.09 from 272.18, while Form 28 subtracts 1.0456 from 274.1444.

Seventy wrong reads 196 in the NBME 29 score calculator and 201 on Form 28. Those five points are the conversion, not your preparation.

Can the NBME 29 score calculator work from wrong answers only?

Yes. Multiply the count by 1.09, subtract from 272.18 and round to reproduce the NBME 29 score calculator by hand.

No percentage or subject breakdown reaches the NBME 29 score calculator, though the breakdown decides which topics your remaining weeks cover.

What does 75 per cent correct give on the NBME 29 chart?

Two hundred and eighteen. Fifty wrong is 75 per cent, and the NBME 29 score calculator returns 218 with 98 per cent pass probability.

Five points either side move it far: the NBME 29 score calculator reads 229 at 80 per cent and 207 at 70 per cent.

Is the NBME 29 score calculator an official NBME conversion?

No. The CBSSA forms have no published percent-to-score table, so no NBME 29 score calculator anywhere is official, this one included.

This NBME 29 score calculator applies a transparent linear model, 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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Seventy wrong is all Form 29 allows before 196, and the NBME 29 score calculator is free to re-run.

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