FIGURE 2.

Applicants performed consistently across Step 1 and Step 2 exams. When the applicant pool was broken down into low, middle, and high Step 1 score tiers at scores 220 and 250, the regression slopes were comparable, suggesting that applicants with high Step 1 scores performed well on Step 2 and refuting our hypothesis that applicants with low step 1 scores would compensate with extraordinary Step 2 scores