Raw Score?

[A Late Starter]

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Hello, this is my first post in SDN!!
Well, I have a quick question about the raw score and how it is scaled.
I read it in Kaplan book that in order to apply to a very competitive pharm schools, scaled score of 450 or above is desired (I don't even know if this is true or not, since the percentile rank will change each time). But, how many questions, out of 100, can you get wrong to get 450? If I calculate it, 450 corresponds to 62.5% questions getting correctly, is it right?

I know it all depends on the percentile rank and all, but I just need it to know where I stand after solving practice tests...

Thank you!

 

[diastole]

I don't think it works like that. Each subtest varies in difficulty so you can miss many more in math and not so many in another section like reading for example. In my case, I got the exact same score in reading and quant. In quant, I randomly guessed on somewhere between five and ten questions and probably missed a few more that I did attempt to answer. In reading, I answered them all and simply no way that I missed as many as on quant.

In short, there really is no way to know how many you can miss. Pearson's doesn't tell you when you get your scores back so people can only guess.

 

[A Late Starter]

Thank you very much for your response! It makes a complete sense🙂

 

[Namishin]

450+ is desirable? Haha, I'll bet. I got a 90% in math and verbal and that's on the lower end spectrum of the 430's.