<p>The tests are very similar, and I am guessing that there must be a similarity in the scores received as well. For example, you will not find a 1000 SAT and 800 GMAT or 1600 SAT and 400 GMAT. </p>
<p>So, suppose I'm in the 90% of SAT scores. Is it probable that I would receive around a 90% for the GMAT? Higher or lower?</p>
<p>By the way, a 700 is what percentile for the GMAT?</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies.</p>
<p>The first time I took the GMAT I got a 690 and that was 92nd %ile. So a 700 is probably 93rd-94th %ile.</p>
<p>WOW finally someone answered. By the way, do you remember what you got on the SAT alicantekid?</p>
<p>I got a 1430, but that was in 1994 before they re-centered the scores. I took the GMAT twice and significantly improved the second time.</p>
<p>what exactly do you mean by "recentered."</p>
<p>Before they recentered SAT scores, the average score was something like 800. When they recentered the scores, they made it so that the average score was now 1000. So basically SAT scores all went up after that. Back when I took the SAT, you had to get every single question right on a particular section to get an 800, and get the entire test perfect to get a perfect 1600. After the recentering, you can still miss a couple and get a "perfect" score. Under the new scoring system, I would have scored a 1500. If you google "SAT recentered scores" you should be able to find out more about this.</p>
<p>Basically a 1490 in 1994 is equivalent to a 1600 today. </p>
<p>So people who scored over 1500 in 1994 are screwed when they convert their scores to todays ranking. They are just bunched in with others who would have scored lower than them back in 1994. The ceiling was lowered. </p>
<p>The GMAT is not as correlated with the SAT because the GMAT has a heavy emphasis on grammar. Grammar has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence that is traditionally measured by standardized tests that measure verbal reasoning and mathematical logic skills.</p>
<p>I think the loose correlation between the GMAT and the SAT is that they're both standardized tests, and some people are just better at taking them than others. A lot of people that I knew who did not score well on the GMAT are the same people who did not score well on the SAT because they don't do well on standardized tests.</p>
<p>The sections are very different between the two exams. On the verbal, I think the only similarity is the reading comprehension. On the quant, the problem solving is the same but you see very few if any data sufficiency questions. Another major difference is that the GMAT is computer adaptive and the SAT is not.</p>