Quantitative Raw Scaled Score

By Abhishek Tomar on Aug 18, 2009 with Comments 0

There are two different types of GMAT Quantitative scores: one a scaled score that ranges from 0-60 scale and a percentile rank that ranges from 0% to 99% percentile of which only scaled scores are reported to the schools. One best way to compare your GMAT performance is to simply calculate raw score, which is the total number of questions you answer correctly, and then use a table to convert that number to a scaled score and percentile rank.
To gauge your performance on the 37 GMAT Quantitative practice questions in GMAT Exam, keep track of your raw score for each test. Then use the following table to convert raw score to scaled score. You can also estimate your percentile rank using the same table. Mostly helpful in practice tests.

How to Interpret the Table and Score

• Quantitative scaled scores are based on a 0-60 scale. (There’s nothing magic about this number range; it’s just GMAT testing tradition.)
• Percentile ranking (0% to 99%) shows how you performed relative to all others taking the GMAT over a recent multi-year period. A percentile ranking of 60, for example, indicates that you scored higher than 60% of all other test takers (and lower than 40% of all other test takers). Remember: Percentile rankings are not reported to the business schools.
• One additional correct response makes the biggest percentile difference near the middle of the performance “curve” (because it’s a typical bell curve).