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How representational are these truly? I got a 0 on a RC, but it said that my PT equivalent was only 175?? And similarly, I got a -3 on a RC, and the equivalent was 167 - shouldn't this be closer to a 169?
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How representational are these truly? I got a 0 on a RC, but it said that my PT equivalent was only 175?? And similarly, I got a -3 on a RC, and the equivalent was 167 - shouldn't this be closer to a 169?
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Hey there! The Preptest Equivalent estimates the most likely score for someone who performs the way you did on that section. It doesn't just look at how many questions you got right or wrong—it also considers the difficulty of each question. Getting hard questions right signals a higher score, while missing easy ones signals a lower score.
A perfect score may return a 174 rather than 180 because many test-takers across a range of scores (172–180) would also ace those same questions. Since there are far more people scoring in the 170s than at 180, the model returns 174 as the most probable score.
I hope this helps clear things up!