Vubar wrote:
The score distribution grid (or score chart) seems to be quite different depending on which provider's chart you look at. Is there any way to understand it definitively? Or is it just a matter of GMAC keep it close to the chest, so we don't actually know how the quant/verbal scores map to total score?
I'm hearing things like people who have the same quant and verbal scores, have still gotten different total scores. Is that the case?
Hi
Vubar,
1. The GMAT generates a score at the end of both the quantitative and verbal sections. These scores are on a continuous scale.
2. These scores are mapped onto an internal scale. Let's call these scores "internal scores".
3. These internal scores are combined to arrive at a total (internal) score.
4. All these scores are then converted to the scaled scores that are exposed to the test taker (6 to 51 for quant and verbal, and 200-800 for the total).
The internal scales are slightly more accurate than the ones exposed to test takers, and that's why we see different total scores for the same score combinations.
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