Why COMLEX does not report percentile ranks?
OMLEX-USA is a medical licensing examination sequence. Its mission is to protect the public by screening candidates according to its definition of minimum competence for practicing osteopathic medicine. Ranking medical students is not the purpose of COMLEX. It is not COMLEXs intention to encourage the public to use its scores to rank its candidates.
COMLEX-USA is a medical licensing examination sequence. Its mission is to protect the public by screening candidates according to its definition of minimum competence for practicing osteopathic medicine. Ranking medical students is not the purpose of COMLEX. It is not COMLEX’s intention to encourage the public to use its scores to rank its candidates. A percentile score is an examinee’s performance rank among a defined peer group who take the same examination. For COMLEX-USA examinees, this peer group is commonly considered as the examinees who start osteopathic medical school in the same year. To accurately compute a percentile score, scores of the whole cohort, or at least most of the cohort, need to be available. COMLEX is computer-delivered. Each Level is given 40 or more times per year. Candidates decide their own test date from a regularly web-posted testing schedule. As a result, not all candidates take the same examination at the same time. Therefore, when some candidates have
