•••quote:•••Originally posted by pault:
•I took the april test and got a V11, P10, and B11, but got an M on the writing sample. I don't know what happened. Perhaps my opinions where different from the grader's, who knows? Is this going to be of any serious consequence?•••••If you look at the curve for the writing sample grades it is bi-modal, most people either get an "M" or a "Q". They grade it like this - 2 people read your essay, each person assigns a score of 1-6. If both graders assign the same score to your essay, they get a bonus or something
. Anyway, obviously to keep things moving along (they have 50,000 essays to grade here) they give pretty good essays a "4" and essays that need a little work a "2". The scale of j-t is really a numeric scale of 1-16. If you got 2's from your graders, for a total of 4, you get a j,k,l,
m... If they gave you 4's, total of 8, you get a j,k,l,m,n,o,p,
q.
All that being said, I don't think that an M can hurt your application, a J or K may cause a second glance or an S or T may elicit a comment from an interviewer, but all other scores are basically a non-issue.