Does my score report make sense?

GMAT? · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: Does my score report make sense?

Hi all,

I took the GMAT and scored 620 - so I will be retaking it again. The score report does not make sense to me - maybe someone can explain.

Quant: Scaled score = 39. Percentile = 58.
Verbal: Scaled score = 36. Percentile = 80.
Total: 620. Percentile: 76.

How come my quantitative scaled score is higher than the verbal scaled score but the quantitative percentile is less than the verbal percentile.

Can anyone explain this?

Thank all.

maxim730 · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject:

percentile as nothing to do with the score. percentile means HOW MANY OTHERS (in terms of %) you did better than

so, Q percentile of 58, means that you did better than 58% of the people who took the exam. I'm not sure if it's people who took teh SAME exam as you, or what.

aim-wsc · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:19 pm Post subject:

it means more people score higher than 39 in q. than people score higher than 38 in v.

that means 39 in q is just an average score. while 38 in v is superb.

percentile is based on GMAT test takers of last ~2 years. (sorry not sure of exact period)