<p>Where can I find the official GMAT percentile distribution? I can't find any source online!</p>
<p>For example, what score gives a 99 percentile, 98, 95, 90, and so on?</p>
<p>99% - 750-800
98% - 740
97% - 730
96% - 720
94% - 710
93% - 700
91% - 690
89% - 680
88% - 670
86% - 660
84% - 650
80% - 640
79% - 630
76% - 620
73% - 610
70% - 600</p>
<p>From my official score report</p>
<p>What's harder the GMAT or the SAT?</p>
<p>IMO, the SAT was harder. However, that could be because I was younger, more naive, and less educated.</p>
<p>The GMAT doesn't test definitions like the SAT, nor does it dig too deep into anyone math skill. The GMAT is more of a cursory test of one's breadth of knowledge, communication abilities, and rationalization skills. Most of these things are those skills that you learn from the university of life.</p>
<p>I did rather well on the GMAT and only average on the SAT. However, if I took the SAT today I might do better.</p>
<p>Personally, I think it's more difficult to score high on the GMAT. My guess is that people study a lot harder for the GMAT than the SATs. I studied intensely for 3 months for the GMAT. By contrast, I didn't study at all for the SATs. In fact, I had a 15 (out of 100) in my math class at the time yet I scored in the top 1% in that section of the SAT.</p>
<p>There is no way I could have scored in the top 1% of either GMAT sections without studying my butt off. At least with the SATs you are studying that type of material in school. With the GMAT, you may not have touched that material in 5-10 years. Much of the GMAT math is from elementary school, which sounds easy right? However, i can barely remember the names of my teachers back then much less what they taught me.</p>
<p>I'm an engineer and use math everyday, and have done a good amount of technical writing over the course of my career. I guess I've been using all the skills that the GMAT tests on. I took a two day course at the local Uni, and studied about 8 hours total for the GMAT, and while I didn't get a 700+ I got in the high 600s which was good enough for the college I wanted to go to. I'm pretty confident I could have done better had I studied more.</p>
<p>The competition is clearly much harder. I'd reckon it's much harder to peg the GMAT than GRE Math.</p>
<p>Mr Payne,
Did you take both tests? I did and I assure you, the GRE is not only harder, but if you really look at the scoring, the testing population is more academically talented for the GRE than the GMAT. For example, the general rule of thumb is to just "double" your GMAT score to predict GRE (I've heard a lot of people use this), but in reality, it is harder to get higher composite score on the GRE. </p>
<p>Proof-Mensa accepts (pre-CAT format) GRE of 1250, which is ~85th percentile of the test taking population. For GMAT membership, they accept a min. score of 700, or ~95th percentile. Assuming Mensa targets an IQ of ~ 131 for admissions, you can make the conclusion that the testing population of the GRE has has a higher IQ than the GMAT and the GRE is a harder test. This makes sense to me as most of the top academically gifted people I would think gravitate towards academia and many of the people who lead business are cut from a different mold,\; extremely bright, but not at the tippy top of their class, relative to pure academicians, that is.</p>
<p>Like I said before, this conclusion agrees within my personal experience. My GRE score was lower than double my GMAT score by quite a bit. Also, the math on the GMAT was almost exactly the same level as the GRE, the difference lies in the verbal parts of the exams.</p>
<p>to the OP,
try this-open excel, go to a cell and type this:</p>
<p>=normdist("GMAT Score",540,100,true)
press enter</p>
<p>this will give you a GMAT perccentile based on the assumption that the test has a normal distribution, average of 540 and standard deviation of 100. These are currently valid assumptions. You can then change your "GMAT score" to any score you wish and see where the percentile falls. Excel is great!!</p>
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Like I said before, this conclusion agrees within my personal experience. My GRE score was lower than double my GMAT score by quite a bit. Also, the math on the GMAT was almost exactly the same level as the GRE, the difference lies in the verbal parts of the exams.
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I was talking about the math portion exclusively. In which case they are probably about equal, so I'm incorrect.</p>
<p>redbeaver, a quick Google search for GMAT score percentiles reveals these pages:</p>