Kaplan VR Strategy & Practice Score Conversion

[StayingSteady]

Hey all, I've been doing a few tests out of Kaplan's Verbal Reasoning Strategy and Practice book and I was just wondering if anyone knew where to obtain a score conversion chart for those tests (or if one even exists). On the same note, are there score conversion charts for the VR tests that Kaplan has online? I just figured my raw percentage would be kinda useless since it converts differently for each test...

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[MeRLin443]

I emailed Kaplan about this.

Hello Michael,

Thank you for contacting Kaplan's Student Services Department. We
cannot give a scaled score for these section tests because the actual
raw score-scaled score conversion chart changed for every administered
MCAT. However, your raw score and percentage correct should be an
indication of how you would perform on an actual MCAT section.

Each MCAT administration and each Kaplan full-length follows a different
raw to scaled score conversion. The reason for this is that the MCAT is
scored based on how the average student performed on the exam to allow
medical schools to easily compare scores from various MCAT
administrations. Under the "Getting Started" section of your syllabus,
you will find a document titled "Kaplan full-length raw to scaled score
conversion chart." This chart provides the conversion for each
full-length 1 - 11; based on this chart, the scores that you received on
the tests that you have taken are correct. We have rescored our
full-lengths since the MCAT changed, and our scoring was based on
information put out by the AAMC so we are confident that the scores you
receive on our exams are comparable to scores that you would receive on
an official MCAT administration.

If the discrepancy between your scores is great, we recommend that you
track your other test scores and trends, and use an average of scores
obtained from the AAMC and Kaplan full length exam for best predictive
results.

Please let us know if you have any other questions, or if we can assist
you in any other way.

Regards,

Louis

So pretty much the individual section test are only % based.

 

[StayingSteady]

ah man I was afraid of that. I saw that conversion chart under the "Getting Started" section too, so I was planning on using that as a rough guideline, but all the tests have such wildly different scales that it's near impossible.

If it's any help, it looks like 75% is good enough for 10+ (that's like missing 1.5 questions per passage)

 

[Kouger86]

Um... I just took the first test out of this book and scored 29/40 questions correct which is 72.5%.... can anyone help me out and tell me what that really translates to on the Verbal Section.

a rough estimate would be fine

thx