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.