How is the MBE scored?
Every right answer you choose is worth one point regardless of the question’s degree of difficulty. There is no penalty for wrong choices. The average raw score is about 125 to 130 out of 200. Scaled for Difficulty: The final number of right answers reported for a particular exam depends upon that exam’s overall difficulty. The NCBE has a scaled (“equating” is their descriptive term) difficulty system, so the final score awarded to students is comparable from exam to exam. The additional scaling points typically run between 10 and 20 points. Thus, the final equated score averages around 135 to 140.
