My relative scored a perfect SAT in high school and now has gotten all but one question perfect on the GRE. What are the odds of that? How many students accomplish that? I was trying to find statistics for that and cannot. The relative, who also makes all A’s, says they can see patterns very well, finds the study for these tests and the taking of them, relaxing almost. I was just curious how to find the statistics or odds. Don’t know how to do searches…how many people in the country get both perfect etc and would that make it easier to get money for grad school etc??
Students with perfect scores in each subject on the SAT are in the 99th percentile based on 2014 scores. Students with perfect scores in each subject on the GRE are in the 99th percentile (verbal reasoning) and 92nd percentile (quantitative reasoning) based on scores from 2011 to 2014. I don’t know the percentiles for perfect scores on both, but I would assume its very similar. A student that scores a perfect on the SAT is more likely to score a perfect on the GRE and vice versa. Getting a perfect score in either one would make a student more attractive to graduate schools, and I doubt that getting a perfect on both as opposed to just one really makes a difference.