Taking STEP 1 Within the Next Few Months?

USMLE Step 1 Passing Score Under Review -- Posted by dkirkby on Tuesday, October 3 2006 12:25 PM

Students are advised that the USMLE Step 1 Committee will meet in mid December of this year. Among the issues most salient to students on Statia is an assessment of the passing score. It is possible, for example, that the recommended passing score will be raised from its current level of 182.

Any change in the passing score stemming from this meeting may affect students writing USMLE Step 1 after January 1, 2007. In other words, students writing USMLE Step 1 in the new year may be held to a higher standard than those writing the examination in 2006. Students are thus advised to consider these possible changes in national standards in relation to their own preparations to write USMLE Step 1.

See http://www.usmle.org/news/step1minpass2007.htm for details.