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Does my score report make sense?

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Does my score report make sense?

by GMAT? » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:51 pm
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.
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by maxim730 » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:54 pm
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.
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by aim-wsc » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:19 pm
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)
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