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How is this possible? Do you mean that the top 6% all get perfect scores and all get assigned 94th percentile, rather than 100th? Anyway, this isn’t true in my
by nindalf 3y ago
How is this possible? Do you mean that the top 6% all get perfect scores and all get assigned 94th percentile, rather than 100th?
Anyway, this isn’t true in my experience. 167/170 in math got me 94th percentile. Far from a perfect score.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoYes the top 6% all got perfect scores. This happened to me on one of the optional SAT math exams, I was ironically confused for a bit.
- Tempest1981 3y agoTest needs to be harder
- pfannkuchen 3y agoMaybe, maybe not. For this sort of test there is a huge selection bias since only people planning to work in math or an adjacent field bother to take the test. If you gave the same test to the general population this wouldn’t happen. I’m guessing most selective schools treat it as sort of a pass/fail, and I’m not sure whether that’s problematic for them or not.
- zerocrates 3y agoIt's definitely my recollection from the GRE (though this was many years ago now that I took it): for math a perfect score got you a percentile in the mid-to-high-90s, while on the opposite side you could lose several points and still be 99th percentile in verbal.