<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Whenever i take a PR test, it says that the MC raw choice converts to a "subscore"
Then, it tells me to add my raw score with my essay score x2 to get my overall raw score, which i can convert to a scaled score.</p>
<p>The thing that confounds me is that even if i get all the MC correct (Raw +49) and get a 12 on the essay (raw +12) it gives me a total of only a 61 as my raw score with 73 RS being the highest... Then again, the "subscore" comes in 2-digits, and the highest is a 78-80 (something like that) which makes no sense to plug in to (MC RS + Essay) formula.</p>
<p>I know that i must be doing something wrong, and I do not mind knowing my exact raw score, but i want to know in what neighborhood i am in score. I get around 1-3 wrong at most on the MC, usually due to cursory glances at the question :(</p>
<p>You don’t add the two together. You take the multiple choice raw score (20-80), and there is a second conversion chart. On one axis will be the multiple choice raw score, on the other the essay score (out of 12). Where the two scores meet is the scaled score, out of 800. Try finding an actual essay conversion chart, because I’m sure you’ll get it once you see one.</p>
<p>And don’t worry, it took me a while to figure it out.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply, but the one in Princeton Review gives two charts- one has the total scaled score, that goes up to 70-something (74 i think) and another one that goes up to 49, which is for the MC, but only gives 2-digit scores. </p>
<p>Im not the best explainer… it would make more sense of what im saying if you can see it in the weird conversion chart in the PR books…</p>
<p>I mean, Kaplan gives a CB-like conversion chart and is straightforward, which is probably what you are describing, with the essay scores on the top, and the MC raw on the side. PR gives a really weird conversion chart.</p>