Educational commission for foreign medical graduates

Examination Results 

Minimum Passing Scores

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Scoring

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Score Rechecks

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USMLE Transcripts

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CSA 

Performance History

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Validity of Scores

  

Reporting of Scores 

Results for Step 1/Step 2 CK are typically available within three to four weeks after your test date. However, 

delays are possible for various reasons. In selecting your test date and inquiring about results, you should allow at 

least eight weeks after your test date to receive notification that your score report is available. Results for Step 2 

CS are available according to the Step 2 CS Schedule for Reporting Results, available on the 

USMLE

 and 

ECFMG

 websites. To avoid misinterpretation and to protect the privacy of examinees, ECFMG will not provide 

scores or pass/fail outcomes by telephone, fax, or e-mail to anyone, including examinees. 

Please note that the reporting of scores may be delayed if additional data and/or analyses are required to assure 

the validity of the test scores. Additionally, ECFMG reserves the right to reverify with the medical school the 

eligibility of medical school students and graduates who are registered for examination. If ECFMG requests 

reverification of your student/graduate status with your medical school, your score report will be issued only after 

reverification of your status has been received by ECFMG. 

Score reports are issued in electronic format only and can be accessed using ECFMG’s 

OASIS

; you will not 

receive a paper score report by postal mail. Once your score report has been issued, ECFMG will send a 

notification to the e-mail address in your ECFMG record. Instructions on how to view, download, and print your 

examination results will be available in the e-mail notification. 

Score reports are available for approximately 120 days from the date of e-mail notification. Once the score report 

is removed from the website, your results will be provided to you only in the form of an official USMLE transcript. 

Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you print and/or save your score report while it is available. 

Important Note: ECFMG may provide your medical school with data on your performance on 

administrations of USMLE Step 1, USMLE Step 2 CK, and USMLE Step 2 CS. Data provided include 

whether you passed the exam administration, and, for Step 1 and Step 2 CK, your numerical score on 

a three-digit scale. 

You have the option to withhold your exam results from your medical school; data are not made 

available on examinees who exercise this option. To have the results of an exam administration 

withheld, you must submit a request through ECFMG’s 

IWA

 at least 10 days before your scheduled 

test date. If you make this request, the score information provided to the medical school for that exam 

administration will list your name and the notation “withheld at the request of the examinee.” If you 

want your score for that exam administration reported to your medical school subsequently, you must 

request and pay for a USMLE transcript. See 

USMLE Transcripts

 in Examination Results and Official 

USMLE Transcripts and Providing Scores to Third Parties in the 

USMLE Bulletin of Information

. 

Step 1 and Step 2 CK 

Score reports for Step 1 and Step 2 CK include a pass/fail designation, numerical scores on both two-digit and 

three-digit scales, and graphical performance profiles, which summarize areas of strength and weakness to aid in 

self-assessment. These profiles are developed solely for the benefit of examinees and are not reported or verified 

to third parties. 

Important Note: The USMLE program has begun the process of limiting the reporting of scores on the 

two-digit scale. Visit the 

USMLE website

 for more information. 

Except as otherwise specified below, to receive a score for Step 1/Step 2 CK, you must begin every block of the 

test. If you do not begin every block, no results are reported, and the “incomplete” attempt appears on your 

USMLE transcript. 

If your examination is incomplete, you may request that a score be calculated and reported, with all missed test 

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items scored as incorrect. This score is likely to be lower than the score you would have achieved had you 

completed all sections of the examination. If you decide to request calculation and reporting of your score, the 

score will appear on your USMLE transcript as though it were complete; it will remain the permanent score for the 

examination administration. If your exam is incomplete, you will be notified in writing by NBME. You will have 45 

days from the date of this notification to request the exam to be scored as described above. 

Step 2 CS 

Performance on Step 2 CS is reported as pass or fail. Score reports include performance profiles, which reflect the 

relative strengths and weaknesses of the examinee’s performance across the subcomponents of Step 2 CS. 

For Step 2 CS, if you leave the test early, or for some other reason you fail to carry out one or more of the cases, 

your performance may be assessed on those cases completed. If this assessment were to result in a passing 

outcome no matter how poorly you may have performed on the missed case(s), then a “pass” will be reported. If 

this assessment were to result in a failing outcome no matter how good your performance may have been on the 

missed case(s), then a “fail” will be reported. Otherwise, the attempt may be recorded as an “incomplete.” 

Additional information on scoring and score reporting for all Steps and Step Components is available in the 

USMLE Bulletin of Information

. 

 

 

Last updated: September 15, 2011 

 

Copyright © 2011 by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. All rights reserved.

 

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