# MLT query to change score only
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mlt-query-to-change-score-only/70546
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 4, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mlt-query-to-change-score-only/70546 "2017-01-04T12:10:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@enp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/enp)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2017, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mlt-query-to-change-score-only/70546/1 "2017-01-04T12:10:37Z")
Hi,
Is it possible to write MLT query to ES which will not filter results, but will change score only, so unmatched documents will be at the end of result set?
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### Author:  [@enp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/enp)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mlt-query-to-change-score-only/70546/2 "2017-01-04T12:37:52Z")
I tried to do this with simple term query first:
```
POST locations/_search?size=100
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": {
"term": {
"country_code" : "mz"
}
},
"minimum_should_match": 0
}
}
}
```
I used "should" and "minimum\_should\_match" due to description from [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-bool-query.html:](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-bool-query.html:)
> In a boolean query with no must or filter clauses, one or more should clauses must match a document. The minimum number of should clauses to match can be set using the minimum\_should\_match parameter.
So, I guessed to see documents with "country\_code" : "mz" and all other documents next, but I see only 18 documents with "country\_code" : "mz" and not 100 documents as described by size=100.
Where is my error and how to apply any query to score only without filtering?
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### Author:  [@enp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/enp)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2017, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mlt-query-to-change-score-only/70546/3 "2017-01-04T12:49:31Z")
Looks like "minimum\_should\_match" can't be less than 1, but I can add "match\_all":
```
POST locations/_search?size=100
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match_all": {}
},
{
"term": {
"country_code": "mg"
}
}
],
"minimum_should_match": 1
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2017, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/mlt-query-to-change-score-only/70546/4 "2017-02-01T12:49:36Z")
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