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When the consistency test was first introduced on HJ1, very inconsistent was a lot more common. Since consistency is partially inherited, with a random factor added, you only get very inconsistent foals if one or both parents are inconsistent (your foal's dam in this case). Before the test, the only way to determine consistency was to examine show performance which could be tricky. A lot more inconsistent horses were used for breeding, so we sometimes got very inconsistent horses (some of which could have a variation +/-10 or more in their weekly show scores).

My observation is that the consistency test reports +/-3 or more as inconsistent, I'm not sure where very inconsistent starts. SBA allows some, but not all inconsistent horses to pass intact. My guess is that it allows +/-3, but neuters anything worse than that. I don't use BA, so I don't know how much less strict it is.