60% on Kaplan VR Section Test = scaled score?

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Does anyone know what the scaled score would be if you get 60% correct on the oline VR section tests for Kaplan.

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[shaqkillz451]

It would probably be a 8 (maybe 7 sometimes). 60% is like 24 questions right out of 40, and i used to get about 28-29 and get 9's. 30/40 on kaplan is usually a 10 if i remember correctly.

 

[axp107]

Don't worry about those tests... I feel they are wayyyyYyy off

Section test 1: 65%
Section test 2: 90% (36/40)

After this, I thought I was gonna own Verbal totally and that I was a Verbal master...

Yesterday:

Section test 3: 65% = 26/40 =(

Also Yesterday:

AAMC CBT 3: 10 VR = 31/40 (78%)
EK VR 101 Test #3: 10 VR

 

[relentless11]

It also varies among exams too. If you go by Kaplan's score chart from their book, 24/40 is a 5. However if you go from the scale on AAMC 6R, then its a 7. My Princeton Review online VR section gave me a 10 for getting 77.5% right though.

Here's the scale fro Kaplan's "New MCAT Practice Tests, 5th Edition" (p128):

Raw Score (Estimated Scaled Score)
23-24 (5)
25-27 (6)
28-29 (7)
30-32 (8)
33-34 (9)
35 (10)
36 (11)
37 (12)
38 (13)
39 (14)
40 (15)

Beats me if this is accurate. I ommitted scores <5 since...well its kinda obvious. Anyway...depending on difficulty, these scores will probably vary by +/- 2 points as well. But having taken the MCAT back in 2003, you should be getting about 70% or more right. There's not a lot of room for error on VR.

 

[HristosKaran]

Don't feel too bad about those tests...I was getting around 60-65% consistantly for all of the verbal section tests and could never really get it any higher..but I was scoring 9-10's on my practice mcats...Verbal was def. not my strong suit, but just practice practice practice and hope for the best on test day...

 

[barto123]

no one can answer that question unless they know exactly which test it is that you took. i happened to have some kaplan scoring rubrics in front of me when i read your question, out of the 6 tests i looked at a 60% was as low as a 5 and as high as a 9. kaplan's scoring rubrics vary wildly and normally have a far better curve than the aamc tests. with kaplan you can get a 65% on PS and still get a 10 or 11, or a 75% on BS and get a 12. With aamc, those kinds of percentages will land you in the 7-9 range. that's why you should be careful when judging yourself based on kaplan tests, theyre not exactly accurate in my humble opinion.

 

[_T_]

This is so depressing cause my score keeps going down..I got a 65, 55, 50..on Kaplan VR 1, 2, and 3..ugh and I've gotten 8s on three 101 passages in the EK book..: \