The SMLE passing score is 560 on a reporting scale of 200 to 800. It is a scaled result, so 560 does not mean that a candidate answered 70% of questions correctly. The SCFHS 2026 examination guide, page 3, describes the official standard-setting process. A preparation provider cannot reconstruct your official result from a practice percentage.
Why is 560 not the same as a raw percentage?
Dividing a reported score by the top of its scale is not a raw-score conversion. Subtracting the scale minimum and treating the remainder as a percentage also assumes a linear relationship that SCFHS has not supplied here. Both shortcuts create a precise-looking answer without the information needed to support it.
Raw practice accuracy answers a narrower question: how many items did you answer correctly in that particular set? Record the question source, topic mix, timing and whether the questions were new to you before comparing it with another result.
What does the SMLEMed practice score calculate?
SMLEMed uses a transparent arithmetic index: 200 + (6 × practice accuracy percentage). For example, 70% accuracy produces a Grand Mock Practice Score of 620. This is a practice estimate, not SCFHS-calibrated. It is not an official-score prediction, percentile or probability of passing.
| Measure | What it tells you | What it cannot establish |
|---|---|---|
| Practice accuracy | Your correct answers on one practice set | Your official scaled score |
| SMLEMed practice index | The same accuracy expressed by our published formula | Psychometric equivalence to SCFHS |
| Official result | The outcome reported by the examination authority | A guaranteed residency place or job |
What is a useful way to compare practice results?
A fresh mixed timed set and a repeated topic set answer different questions. If your accuracy improves after repeating familiar items, check the same concepts in new wording before concluding that the improvement transfers.
- Record accuracy alongside unanswered items.
- Review domain patterns rather than reacting to a single small set.
- Separate knowledge errors from interpretation, decision and pacing errors.
- Use several comparable sessions before changing the whole study plan.
Where are the pass-rate and specialty-cutoff tables?
This article does not publish a national pass rate or score distribution because we do not have a verified dataset with a defined cohort, period and denominator. A specialty-selection cutoff also needs a named program and application cycle. Treat an unsourced table as a claim to verify, rather than a target that determines your future.
Use the practice score calculator to inspect the arithmetic, then use the wrong-answer review method to decide what to study next.