The USMLE Step Committees are responsible for the design and development of the Step examinations, as well as establishing and monitoring standards. These committees are made up of physicians and scientists who bring educational, licensing, and practice perspectives to this process. Every three to four years a Step Committee is asked to complete an in-depth review of standards. This process is about to begin for USMLE Step 1. The current recommended minimum passing score of 182 was most recently reviewed in 2003.
The Step 1 Committee is scheduled to assess the minimum passing score at its meeting on December 12-13, 2006. In its review of the minimum passing score, the Step 1 Committee will consider information from multiple sources including: 1) results of surveys of various groups (e.g., state licensing representatives, medical school faculty, samples of examinees) concerning the appropriateness of current pass/fail standards for Step examinations; 2) recommendations from independent groups of physicians and scientists who will participate in content-based standard-setting activities late in 2006, 3) trends in examinee performance; and 4) score precision and its effect on the pass/fail decision. The decision of the Step 1 Committee will be posted at the USMLE website. If the Committee determines that a change is appropriate, the new recommended minimum passing score will become effective for all examinees who begin their Step 1 examination on or after January 1, 2007.






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If they elevated to 192 I will be just
Do you thinks they will lower the passing grade? maybe to a nice 172

I think they will not but in case they did then what will happen to the people that took it in the past?

So what do you think guys will it go up or down?

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Your best friend will die, we can go to war tomorrow, don't care about those things anymore just study.

Some day I will be the next Goljan/Daugherty/fissher for IMG's all over the world.

i know of some states/residency programs that dont recognize anything under 206 as passing. this has been around for awile.

who knows how they are going to change the grading, and how the grading really is adjusted for each testing area/time.

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i think all IMGs should set 200 as their minimum passing mark, b/c for all intents and purposes, if you get below this, you might have to start beggin for residency positions.

they just added new questions this last june, which made the exam a little harder. but i don't know, seems like it went from 176, to 179, now to 182. last time (in 2003) they decided to keep it at 182. i'm feeling 185, that seems to be the trend.

really? as far as i know, states uniformly recognize a score of 75 as passing. there is NO state that requires more than a pass on any of the steps.

programs may have cut-offs for interviews and for residents, but they have no input into what is passing or not.

please don't feed people such nonsense.

Absolutely people should careful with numbers!!

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