<p>Hey guys</p>
<p>my friend thinks that on his writing score CB made a mistake</p>
<p>he got a 610 with a 10 on his essay and missed 11 questions. Since there are 49 he got 38 right which gave him a raw score of 35. CB converted the 35 into and MC score of 58. Shouldnt the MC score be higher??</p>
<p>nope..the ACTUAL curve is harsher than the book that cb puts out =(</p>
<p>according to kaplan a 35 raw score + a 10 essay is a 680??</p>
<p>for the LAST time, CB calculates scores independently for each test and curves it using a bell curve. if more people did well, your score drops.. thats what comparative scoring is all about. for ex. on math,
700=95%, 600=~82%, 500=~47%, and so forth. since a lot of ppl did well on march exam, the curve was 'worse' to maintain the bell-shaped distribution.</p>
<p>ppl complain about curves being hard, but bottom line is this. If you do better than others, your score will be higher. If you got a 700 and are complaining that the curve was hard, then how come 5 people out of a 100 did better than you on that same hard test.</p>
<p>soo that's how it works. My friend (icyfire) always says CURVE IS PRE-DETERMINED....<em>cough</em> maybe he should read confidential's post.</p>
<p>merudh123, the curve is pre-determined.</p>
<p>curve is predetermined as in the percentile marks for the numerical score? or as in the number of questions wrong/right needed for the numerical score?</p>