<p>Is it possible to take the SSAT more than once & send in only the best parts of each test result (ie, Verbal score from try #1, Math score from try #2, and Reading score from try #3)? Or is it all or nothing - if you want to have a school see the results from any test, all 3 sections (verbal, math, reading) are automatically sent?</p>
<p>I got to wondering about this after reading a 2008 thread on SSAT scores entitled "Does it affect your chances to.." which included the following comments:</p>
<p>Maybe I misunderstood, but this sounds as if you could cobble together the best parts of all the attempts & have that sent in, which would mean an overall composite higher than any of your 3 tries alone.</p>
<p>no, you could do score choice with the SAT, but not with the ssat. You can take the ssat several times and decide which particular date’s score you will send. If say, your child gets 95% 97% and 42%, you have him concentrate on the 42 and improve it, so he gets 89% 97%, 90%, you send both scores to the school, they’ll figure it out. Or if the second test brings in 70’s across the board, you dont send it in at all. The counsellor at your jr boarding is probably the best authority on this question.</p>
<p>To what I’ve heard, schools superscore. Lets say Billy gets a 76% Math, a 82% Reading, a 92% Verbal and an 85% overall. Then Billy retakes the SSAT, he then gets a 89% Math, a 80% Reading, a 90% Verbal and an overall score of 88%. The schools would then do this, they would take the 89% Math, the 82% Reading, and the 92% Verbal. The computer would then give them an overall score of say 90%. So yes, schools do put together the best scores.</p>
<p>With the SAT it’s called a “superscore”, but to my knowledge no testing agency does this on behalf of the students. Most of the schools so often discussed here (and all the ones that I have personally asked) have told me that they will either do it manually, or they have the data from ssat cobble it to include the greatest subtest scores from all reports sent to the school. Whether they see those lower section scores or not, I have no idea.</p>
<p>The short answer to your question is “no.” You cannot do it yourself and have it sent; but most schools do something similar when putting your student’s file together, either manually or through whatever data management program they may use. </p>
<p>The first quote is from me actually, a few years ago, and the school in question was Groton. The second quote is also old because the ssat no longer charges for electronic submission of reports to schools.</p>
<p>Stop worrying This will be over in a few weeks!</p>
<p>EDIT: This phase will be over in a few weeks, then the journey really begins.</p>
<p>What this means is that you can register for and take the SSAT without listing any schools to send scores to. Which gives you the the option to send or not send scores after seeing how well you did. You cannot, to my knowledge, select subscores within a test date.</p>
<p>When I inquired about this at a GLADDCHEMMS school that was not Groton in the Fall, the AO said they superscore (pick the best subscores) if you send them scores from more than one test date.</p>
<p>Great answers, everyone. So…the takeaway is, for the kids who do take the SSAT more than once, it pays to send in the scores from all the tests unless they clearly scored lower across the board on one of the tries. </p>
<p>I just wonder about trying to ‘unring the bell’ if there was a case where the student scored low on one of the 3 components on one test date & did ok in another. Wouldn’t human nature suggest that the ad coms take that low score into consideration, even if they try to ‘superscore’ everything?</p>
<p>And yeah, neato, I’m worrying about this and my kid won’t even take the SSAT until next fall! He’s not even applying this year.</p>
This will be over in a few weeks!</p>