This paper presents a simple method for increasing the limiting Pitman efficiency of rank tests relative to the best tests for samples normal distributions without using complicated scoring systems. Our proposal is to select two numberspandr(0 <p, r< 1) and then score, with integer weights, the data in the toppthand bottomrthfractions of the combined sample. The percentile modified tests for scale are quite effective. Whenp=r= 1/8 (i.e., we score only the extreme quarter of the combined sample) the A.R.E. of the test to theFtest is .85.