The Step 1 three-digit score has long been one of the main statistics residency programs used to rank applicants, giving this single exam the power of determining the rest of a student's medical ...

I was and remain a critic of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 exam. My criticism is this: much of the content, perhaps even most of it, is a set of esoteric science ...

For the first time this spring, second-year medical school students left their initial board exams worried about just one factor: passing. The infamous 7-hour Step 1 exam is now pass/fail. Scores once ...

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The United States Medical Licensing Examination team has made three major changes to the USMLE testing system. It is important to recognize that although these changes come with very real consequences ...

Several members of the State Board of Education raised concerns today over plans moving forward to change the way kids are tested in Michigan schools. "We’ve changed the test so many times in so many ...

The state's new M-STEP exam could be a thing of the past after the 2016-17 school year, replaced by a test taken three times a year that would show how much students improve from the beginning of the ...

Significant achievement gaps exist in math and English language arts among black and Hispanic students who took Michigan's new rigorous standardized test last spring, according to data released ...