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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For H2SO4 (Sulfuric acid)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** TZVP cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z cc-pCVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.025077 -0.025393 -0.027148 -0.195814 -0.196047 -0.098675 -0.091902 -0.155453 -0.381191
MP3=FULL -0.023802   -0.047990            
MP4=FULL                 -0.384749
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL               -0.154504  
CCSD(T)=FULL -0.023921         -0.100284     -0.383907
6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** TZVP cc-pVTZ cc-pV(T+d)Z cc-pCVTZ