INSIGHTS RESOURCES

Only examinees have access to their INSIGHTS experience. 

Yes, examinees may do so by sharing their screen with another individual in person or through a web-conference tool. Examinees may also export certain tables within INSIGHTS to share these results. 

The INSIGHTS experience is unique to every user. NBME is also dedicated to improving this experience over time. Therefore, examinees’ views and features may be different from the ones covered in the user guide, overview video, or demo.

Results are often posted to medical schools in the MyNBME® Services Portal the calendar day after a testing window ends or the following day. However, for some assessments, posting may take up to three business days after the conclusion of an administration for exams administered at a medical school or up to three business days after the conclusion of a testing window for exams administered at a Prometric test center. Schools should begin checking for available test results in the MyNBME Services Portal 24 hours following the end of a testing window.  

Schools have two options in the MyNBME Services Portal for when results are posted to INSIGHTS. This is an account level setting that applies to all Subject Exam and CAS Exam results:

1. Three-Day Examinee Posting*:

   Examinees will begin receiving notifications that their results are available in INSIGHTS three calendar days after scores are posted for their school. Therefore, examinees may receive their score report notifications from INSIGHTS as soon as four calendar days following the end of a test administration window. 

   Example: If an exam administration window ends on Friday, results may be available to schools on Saturday and available to examinees via INSIGHTS on Tuesday.

2. Six-Day Examinee Posting*:

   Examinees will begin receiving notifications that their results are available in INSIGHTS six calendar days after scores are posted for their school. Therefore, examinees may receive their score report notifications from INSIGHTS as soon as seven calendar days following the end of a test administration window. 

   Example: If an exam administration window ends on Friday, results may be available to schools on Saturday and available to examinees via INSIGHTS the following Friday.

*Schools also have the option to manually release scores to INSIGHTS before the expiration of these time frames.

Results from all Self-Assessments started and completed in the last 2 years, Subject Exams and Comprehensive Exams completed since February 2, 2024, and CAS exams completed since May 1, 2024 are viewable in INSIGHTS, with the exception of the International Foundations of Medicine® (IFOM®) Clinical Science Self-Assessment.  

Only NBME Self-Assessments purchased under the same account and CAS/Subject Exams listed under the same email address appear on INSIGHTS for that account. 

Some examinees may also see Subject Exams dating back to November 1, 2023, depending on when their institution began entering examinee emails as part of the Subject Exam ordering process. 

INSIGHTS is intended to provide examinees with additional ways to review their exam scores and to help examinees gauge their readiness for the USMLE, a Clinical Science Subject Exam, or a CAS Proctored Exam. It presents results in ways that are more dynamic than the PDF score reports.

Not all NBME assessments provide the same level of detail due to differences in their purpose and number of questions.

There are many reasons why a recently completed Subject Exam or CAS exam might not appear in INSIGHTS. If a recent exam is not displayed, please consider the following:

• Is this the correct MyNBME Examinee Portal account?
  • Each account is associated with a specific email address.
• How recently was the Subject Exam or CAS Exam completed?
  • It may take up to three business days after the close of a Subject Exam or CAS administration for results to be sent to a medical school, then an additional three to six calendar days for results to appear in INSIGHTS, depending on the school’s INSIGHTS posting setting.
• Does the email address used by the medical school to administer a Subject Exam or CAS exam match the email used to complete the Self-Assessments for that MyNBME account?
  • MyNBME Examinee Portal and INSIGHTS accounts are linked via email and therefore the user email for all exam administrations must match for Self-Assessments, Subject Exams, and CAS exams to appear in the same INSIGHTS experience. 

If none of the above applies and the assessment is still not being displayed, please allow up to 48 hours for the assessment data to populate due to periodic system maintenance or reach out to the medical school directly for a copy of the assessment results. 

INSIGHTS Demo provides an environment to experience all that INSIGHTS has to offer, without the need to take an NBME assessment or view live score results.

A selection of NBME Self-Assessments, Subject Exams, and Customized Assessment Services (CAS) exams are included. These assessments from across the NBME portfolio were selected as a sample of what might appear for students at various stages of their educational journey. 

To show meaningful changes in performance over time, multiple exams of the same type were included demonstrating the breadth and depth of these comparisons.

Displaying 25 items per exam is sufficient to show the features and functions of INSIGHTS without unnecessary amounts of artificial data.