Still bitter
Okay, here are the scores I’ve gotten on practice tests so far:
Quantitative: 800 - 92nd %ile . . . Verbal: 730 - 98th %ile
Quantitative: 800 - 92nd %ile . . . Verbal: 690 - 96th %ile
Quantitative: 800*- 92nd %ile . . .Verbal: 780** - 99th %ile
I don’t know who thought up the scaling for GRE scores, but that person is on my bad list, like, ten times. Don’t get me wrong, I would be fine with a 99th percentile score not being enough for a perfect 800 in Verbal IF THE QUANTITATIVE WERE SCORED THE SAME WAY. But it’s not. Stoooopid.
Have I mentioned that I’m bitter about this? Because I am.
Anyway, since I haven’t managed to hit that 800V on any of the practice tests, it’s unreasonable to expect that I’ll get one tomorrow. Sigh. I guess I’ll set my goal at 750, then—higher than any (accurate) score I’ve gotten yet, but doable.
If I don’t get a perfect score this time around, I’ll retake it when they come out with the new (and hopefully improved) version.
Blah. I’m off to mash a few more vocab words into my head. Wish me luck.
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* NB: On this third test, I got two (out of thirty) of the math questions wrong. This means that I was wrong to assume that missing *any* on the math section would drop you from an 800. Since that clearly *is* the case in the verbal section (on this test, I also missed two verbal questions), it’s just more evidence that the score scaling is all jacked up. Grrrrrr.
** Maybe a third of the verbal questions on this one were questions I’d seen before, so this isn’t a true representation of my verbal skillz. I’m just putting it up here so you can see how skewed the scoring is.
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