<p>i'm new to all this, so... questions!</p>
<p>how do percentiles work and what do they mean? the college board explanation isn't so clear. you want a high percentile, right?</p>
<p>i just took the may sat reasoning. i'm hearing that it is considered 'easy' so if more people get higher raw scores, does it mean that there is less 'room for error'? (more mistakes cost more in the scaled score)?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>if you're in the 99th percentile it means you scored better than 99% of the people who took the test</p>
<p>and yes if it really is as "easy" as they say it is that will affect how the scores are scaled :(</p>
<p>if you see the scale scores of SAT 2006, over 2280 is 99+.
99% seems pretty when in scales of percentile, but if you see the converted score such as 2150, or 2230. Everybody feels something weird with this converted score, because CC average scores seems to be over 2250..lol...</p>