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UWSA 2 Step 1 Score Calculator: Misses to a Three-Digit Score

Give it your miss count out of 160. The UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator returns an estimated three-digit score, a pass-probability read, and a way to weigh a late number against the earlier ones.

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= 85.0% correct • 136 correct

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Quick take on this form

The line inside this UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator starts at 297 for a clean paper and drops about 1.1 points per miss out of 160. Ninety-two misses is 196, the passing standard, or 42.5% correct. At the same miss count this form reads about three points above the first, so a higher second number can be scale rather than progress.

UWSA 2 score reference

Estimated three-digit score and pass probability at each wrong-answer count for UWorld Self-Assessment 2 (Step 1).

UWSA 2 wrong answers to estimated score reference
WrongCorrect %Est. scorePass prob.
0100.0%29799%
596.9%29199%
1093.8%28699%
1590.6%28099%
2087.5%27599%
2584.4%27099%
3081.3%26499%
3578.1%25999%
4075.0%25399%
4571.9%24899%
5068.8%24299%
5565.6%23799%
6062.5%23199%
6559.4%22699%
7056.3%22099%
7553.1%21597%
8050.0%20991%
8546.9%20481%
9043.8%19859%
9540.6%19337%
10037.5%18717%
10534.4%1827%
11031.3%1763%
11528.1%1711%
12025.0%1651%
12521.9%1601%
13018.8%1541%
13515.6%1491%
14012.5%1431%
1459.4%1381%
1506.3%1321%
1553.1%1271%
1600.0%1211%

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

How the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator converts your misses

The UWSA 2 score conversion for Step 1 is one rule: score = round(296.94 − 1.097 × wrong) across 160 questions. The UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator applies it flat.

Every miss costs the same 1.097 points in the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator, so ten questions are worth about eleven points at 30 misses and at 110.

Against its sibling, the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator starts 2.56 points higher and charges 0.012 points less per miss.

The gap widens as you go down: the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator reads 253 at 40 misses against 250 on the first UWorld assessment, 187 at 100 against 183.

Subtract that offset before calling a rise progress. Three points of it came from the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator scale, not from the fortnight between sittings.

Where the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator coefficients came from is set out in how each conversion was built.

UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator chart, and converting offline

Start at the top of the UWSA 2 conversion chart. The UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator returns 297 for a clean paper, 275 at 20 misses, 264 at 30, 253 at 40.

Through the middle, 43 misses is 250, 52 is 240, 61 is 230, 70 is 220 and 75 is 215. The UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator fills in every row between.

Below that: 80 misses is 209, 88 is 200, 92 is 196, 100 is 187, 110 is 176. The UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator keeps one slope through the passing line.

Percent correct is an input too. Hand the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator 75% and it returns 253; 60% gives 227, 50% gives 209, 42.5% gives 196.

Pass probability rides a logistic curve centred on 196, so the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator reads 97% at 75 misses, 91% at 80 and 50% at 92.

No UWorld report is required. A miss count is the whole input, so the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator works from a paper tally after the window closes.

Reading the result with days left to go

This is the last instrument before test day, so a good UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator result is one you can act on. Above 240, 52 misses or fewer, the exam is logistics.

From 220 to 239, 53 to 70 misses, the margin is real and two focused blocks are the most the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator justifies.

From 196 to 219 you are nominally clear on a scale students report as generous, in the week with least time to fix what the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator found.

The line is one question wide: 91 misses is 197, 92 is 196, 93 is 195. Treat any UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator estimate near 196 as unresolved, not as a pass.

One to two weeks out is the common placement, and the right one. Sat later, the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator hands you a number you cannot answer.

Last readings get overweighted. Against three NBME forms, one UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator run is the outlier and the cluster is the signal.

How accurate the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator is

An independent estimate, not an official result. UWorld publishes no conversion table, so the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator is fitted to student-reported data.

One straight line assumes the same points per question at 30 misses as at 120, and the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator cannot say how far it drifts at the extremes.

No confidence interval is configured for the Step 1 UWorld forms, so the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator prints a point estimate. Widen it mentally.

A final-week sitting carries the fatigue of a whole dedicated block, and the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator cannot separate a bad four hours from a real gap.

UWorld self-assessments are reported to read generous, and no citable measurement exists, so the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator corrects for nothing and borrows nobody’s figures.

If the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator disagrees with your forms, add the board’s own late form, or see the trend rather than the last point.

Frequently asked questions

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

How many questions can I miss on the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator and pass?

About 92 of the 160. The UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator puts 91 misses at 197, 92 at 196, the standard, and 93 at 195.

One question decides the side, so read any UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator result near 196 as unresolved, not as a pass to schedule around.

What percent correct does the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator treat as passing?

42.5% correct, or 92 misses of 160 — what the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator needs to reach 196.

On a board-written form the same 196 needs 62.5% to 65.5%. Compare what the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator returns, not percentages.

Why does the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator read higher than UWSA 1?

Mostly the scale. The UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator starts 2.56 points higher and charges 0.012 less per wrong answer.

An identical miss count reads three points up: the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator puts 70 misses at 220, the first form at 217. Subtract that first.

What if the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator disagrees with my NBME forms?

Weight the cluster, not the single reading. If the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator sits above several NBME forms, trust the lower group.

If it sits below them, take it seriously: a late drop in the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator is more often a real gap than noise.

When should I sit UWorld Self-Assessment 2 and run the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator?

One to two weeks out, so the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator still leaves room to act on a soft result.

Any closer and the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator mostly costs confidence, with no time left to change your coverage.

Can I still fix a low UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator result?

With two weeks or more, yes: focused blocks on the weakest systems, then a different form to check the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator. With a week, consolidate.

With fewer than three days, study will not move the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator, and the live choice is sit or postpone.

Can I use the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator offline, without a UWorld report?

Yes. The only input is how many of the 160 you missed, so the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator handles an expired window.

Percent correct works too. Nothing you type into the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator reaches UWorld.

Is the UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator the official UWorld conversion?

No. UWorld publishes no table, so no third-party tool, this UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator included, can offer an official one.

The UWSA 2 Step 1 score calculator states its coefficients and shows its arithmetic. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the NBME® or USMLE®.

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