<p>I'm sure this question has been answered before, but I couldn't find a satisfactory answer and am posting again here.</p>
<p>After taking my GRE today, I apparently got 730-800 Q and 710-800 V. Does that mean I'm most likely to get the average of those ranges, ie around 760/750? I ask because my GPA from college is pretty bad, and I'd like to have a GRE that possibly lightens the impact. I hear in past years, a 740 on quantitative means I'd be in the 80th percentile, and I hope that's not the case because I'm applying to CS grad schools. </p>
<p>So, anyone know? Does that simply mean "you're in the top tier" or are those ranges like the 1st deviations of a bell curve?</p>
<p>I, too, would like to know how the score ranges have been translating to official scores so far. Suppose your score range at the end of the test is 650-750. Should you expect the lowest possible score of that range? The highest? Or is it more commonly the mean? What have people been receiving? If you don’t feel comfortable posting your official scores, please let us know at least whether your official score was at the low, middle, or high end of your range. Thanks!</p>
<p>I would like to know as well how to interpret the range given after you are done with the test. First of all, does your final score always lie within the given range? Seems dumb not to, but anything can happen…</p>
<p>My other question is basically the same as asked by other posters, if indeed the final scores lie in the given interval, more or less where can you expect it? In the middle of the low and high endpoints?</p>
<p>I got a projected range of 750-800 quant, 440-540 verbal when i took it this last Thursday (Nov 3) and the scores dont come out till Dec 1 so im quite eager to know around where in the given range they will most likely be.</p>
<p>I did some digging last night and found a blog with comments from a couple dozen people who took the revised test and already received their scores last week. It’s by no means a complete look at the revised scoring in relation to the ranges, but most of them fell in the low to mid-range of their projected score range. If your projected score was say 650-750, most official scores matched up with 650-680. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find the site I found last night. It involved a lot of random Google searches.</p>
<p>Kaplan also posted a blog piece on score expectations and it suggested that it’s much easier (or harder, depending on how you look at it) to place in the higher percentiles. It’s a matter of two correct answers that will be the difference between a 155 and a 157, which is the difference between placing at the 69th percentile or the 77th percentile. [New</a> GRE Scores: Scales and Percentiles Kaplan Grad Prep Blog](<a href=“http://blog.kaplangradprep.com/2011/11/07/553/]New”>http://blog.kaplangradprep.com/2011/11/07/553/)</p>
<p>I have a question that’s been bothering me. When is it that test takers will begin receiving their official score in the new scale exclusively? I remember reading that in the beginning test takers will receive their official score in both the old and new scale and after a certain cutoff date, it will only be in the new scale. When is this cutoff date?</p>
<p>I just took the test today and got my scores back in the new format.<br>
168 Verbal 160 Math</p>
<p>I have a masters degree in applied mathematics and graduated #1 in my major at a respectable college, and yet my verbal blew the math out of the water.</p>
<p>Based on this, I think something is a little screwy with the test.</p>
<p>It is odd though. I took all the kaplan practice tests and the Power Prep test and consistently got only 1 or 2 wrong on the math with at least 10 minutes to spare (and just completing b/c it was practice), but the test I took today had things on it that were never even remotely addressed on those tests, the math review on the ETS website, or in all the prep books (I completely went through Princeton Review book, Kaplan book, and ETS book and aced almost every question with ease), and pushed me to the edge of the time limit. I know my score is okay, but to be honest I’m kind of POed; maybe I just drew some really unlucky questions.</p>
<p>Also, it is very odd the way these percentiles relate to the older ones.<br>
For instance 168 in verbal is the 98 percentile as stated by the ETS website and book, the 98 percentile in verbal on the old scale is around 740. 160 on math is stated as the 85 percentile as stated on the ETS site and book, and that translates to about a 760 on the old scale. So, in total: 168 V / 160 M translates to 740 V / 760 M …wrap your head around that.</p>
<p>I just finished the exam too and had a similar experience to scotopia.</p>
<p>I’m not in the same math realm (undergraduate engineering here) but I got V 166 / Q 159 reported at the end of my test. My reading comprehension is good and all, but I did not expect to end up below 160. I was expecting to get around 165. I also took the ets/princeton/barron’s practice test and got one or (maybe) two wrong each time. Oh well.</p>
<p>I doubt it matters though. From my advising meetings, they just tell me to get above the minimums so that my application doesn’t get filtered out.</p>
<p>I just got my scores for my Nov 3 sitting. I will put the new scale score that I got, the corresponding old scale score according to table, and the estimated score I was given when I finished the test.</p>
<p>QUANT - new score: 168, old score: 800, estimated after test: 750-800
VERBAL - new score: 151, old score: 470, estimated after test: 440-540</p>