How are TruScore and Percentile Score different and where to use them?

The Percentile score gives you nothing but the relative performance of the candidate to all the other test-takers in Merreo (the entire Merreo test taker pool). TruScore gives you an index on how good the performance of the candidate is, on an absolute scale. While the percentile score and TruScore indicate performance individually, only when seeing them both do you get a fuller picture.

Case 1

You have two candidates, A and B. A scored in the 97th percentile, and B scored in the 94th percentile. This might look close enough in the percentile score, but on the TruScore front, A would have a TruScore of 78, and B would have a TruScore of 69. In an absolute sense, the candidates’ performances are very far apart.

Case 2

You have two other candidates, C and D. C scored in the 51st percentile, and D scored in the 62nd percentile. Looks significant enough here. But on the TruScore front, C would have a TruScore of 41, and D would have a TruScore of 43. In an absolute sense, the candidates are much closer together.

That is why only when seeing both the numbers, do you get a more precise picture of the outlook of a candidate.