findScorePercentile:
Function Finding Percentile Rank from Scaled Scores
Description
findScorePercent looks up the percent of test takers scorig lower than
specified scores using tables 1A and 1B on page 22 of the GRE score guide. This
is a brewdata helper function that is available to end users, but not necessary
for them to run individually.
Usage
findScorePercentile( score, section)
Arguments
score
score denotes the post-2011 scaled score (i.e. 130-170).
section
section denotes the GRE section to look up. Acceptable
inputs are 'verbal', 'quant', and 'writing'. Any other values will not return
a result.
Value
findScorePercent returns the percentile score corresponding to one of
the three GRE section (i.e. analytical writing, verbal, or quantitative) scaled
scores (i.e. 0-6 and 130-170).
References
GRE Score Guide: https://www.ets.org/s/gre/pdf/gre_guide.pdf