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Percent of MCAT Retesters Attaining Specified Verbal Reasoning Score Changes

Broken Down by Initial Score

Initial VR Score -4 or more -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 or more N
1 101 36 29 16 4 6 0 0 70
2 2 24 28 26 13 5 1 1 0 349
3 1 11 18 23 19 19 6 3 1 0 617
4 0 4 10 18 22 25 13 6 3 1 0 1137
5 0 1 5 11 16 29 19 12 5 2 0 0 1293
6 0 1 5 10 24 22 19 13 5 1 0 0 2640
7 0 2 5 15 23 22 20 10 3 0 0 0 2462
8 1 2 10 17 22 25 15 7 1 0 0 0 2529
9 1 4 11 16 29 23 13 1 0 0 0 2368
10 1 5 10 24 29 25 5 2 0 0 1342
11 2 6 17 25 34 10 7 0 0 725
12 2 12 23 35 16 12 0 0 86
13 5 11 34 29 21 0 0 38
 

1Each cell entry is the percentage of repeaters at the specific initial score level who obtained each score gain or loss. For example, of the 70 repeaters who initially scored 1 in Verbal Reasoning, 10% stayed the same upon retesting; 36% increased their score by 1 point; 29% increased their score by 2 points; 16% increased their score by 3 points; 4% increased their score by 4 points; and 6% increased their score by 5 points.

 

 

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