# Cannot get full text \_score to work properly

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-get-full-text--score-to-work-properly/34774>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 17, 2015, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-get-full-text--score-to-work-properly/34774 "2015-11-17T09:37:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Janaka\_Bandara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Janaka\_Bandara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Janaka_Bandara)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 9:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-get-full-text--score-to-work-properly/34774/1 "2015-11-17T09:37:30Z")

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Hi I have following records in ES

```
[title => 'Elephant Back Safari', 'description' => null]
[title => 'Festival of Colors', 'description' => null]

```

Now when I run following search query

```
"query": {
    "multi_match": {
      "query": "festival color elephant",
      "fields": [
        "title",
        "description"
      ]
    }
  }

```

I'm getting records in following order

Elephant Back Safari  
Festival of Colors

Both records return the \_score as 1

But shouldn't I get the ''Festival of Colors' record at the beginning because the search query has two key words of that title?

Could anyone please guide me on this?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-get-full-text--score-to-work-properly/34774/2 "2015-11-18T02:14:11Z")

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[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/scoring-theory.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/scoring-theory.html) should help clarify this.

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**Author:** ![Janaka\_Bandara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Janaka\_Bandara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Janaka_Bandara)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 10:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-get-full-text--score-to-work-properly/34774/3 "2015-11-18T10:52:26Z")

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Thanks warkolm, even it was little confusing at first. it makes more sense now. 😄

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-get-full-text--score-to-work-properly/34774/4 "2017-07-05T23:37:42Z")

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