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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 181536" data-attributes="member: 2672">Typically somewhere between the 25th and 75th percentile.The scores are deceptive. They are not percentages, they are percentiles. This means you are ranked against hundreds of other people who have taken the test and ranked 1-99 (with one being lowest). What you don’t know is what you are being ranked against - you could do one test and be ranked in the 20th percentile of assessed against one group and 80th percentile is ranked against another. For instance, the first group could be partners from the law firm you have applied to, while the second group could be a group of people only educated to the age of 16. It’s the same test, same answers, but different way the test is assessed/scored. Similarly for things like Watson Glaser, certain types of question might be weighed more heavily than others and that can vary between firms. It’s difficult to do so, but ultimately try not to think of these tests as standardised assessments, as they are not. You can try to improve your confidence and scores in these tests, but just because you passed or failed one for one firm does not mean the same outcome would happen with the next firm, even if you answered exactly the same questions in exactly the same way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 181536, member: 2672"] Typically somewhere between the 25th and 75th percentile. The scores are deceptive. They are not percentages, they are percentiles. This means you are ranked against hundreds of other people who have taken the test and ranked 1-99 (with one being lowest). What you don’t know is what you are being ranked against - you could do one test and be ranked in the 20th percentile of assessed against one group and 80th percentile is ranked against another. For instance, the first group could be partners from the law firm you have applied to, while the second group could be a group of people only educated to the age of 16. It’s the same test, same answers, but different way the test is assessed/scored. Similarly for things like Watson Glaser, certain types of question might be weighed more heavily than others and that can vary between firms. It’s difficult to do so, but ultimately try not to think of these tests as standardised assessments, as they are not. You can try to improve your confidence and scores in these tests, but just because you passed or failed one for one firm does not mean the same outcome would happen with the next firm, even if you answered exactly the same questions in exactly the same way. [/QUOTE]

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