How common is a 2400 SSAT?

<p>Nah I took the november test.</p>

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omg, bbc420, you are hopelessly arrogant.</p>

<p>verbatim, here it is…</p>

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<p>omg no wayyy</p>

<p>I suspect this issue of 794 with no error/no omitted may be related to ‘instrinsic values’ of the questions in any particular SSAT. If the questions in a test are much easier than another test, SSAT might try to differentiate among perfect scorers on the two tests by not giving those taking the easier test 800s. Just like on lower level SSAT, maximum score you can get with everything correct is ~2175 because both upper and lower level SSATs are scaled on the same curve.</p>

<p>My ds had 1 wrong, and he got a 764 in reading. His math section had more questions, so he had 2 wrong there, but still scored 800.</p>

<p>At Burb Parent’s suggestion, I sent an email to the folks at SSAT. Here is the response I received:</p>

<p>"…due to a process called Score Equating it is not always possible to achieve the highest possible SSAT Scaled Score. Please review the information below regarding Score Equating.</p>

<p>When creating many editions of a test, it is impossible to make them exactly the same level of difficulty. Though the differences are very small, there will always be “easier” and “harder” forms.</p>

<p>Therefore, SSAT statistically determines the “level of difficulty” of each new test section through pretesting. Pretest takers write both a baseline form and a new test form. The sections are scored and the resulting data allows SSAT to create a difficulty factor. This factor indicates how much easier or harder the new test form is in comparison to the baseline form. This factor, which compensates for the very small differences in difficulty, is applied to a student’s raw score just before it is converted to an SSAT Scaled Score.</p>

<p>If a form is easier than the baseline form, the raw score will be slightly decreased. Likewise, if a form is harder than the baseline form, the raw score will be slightly increased. At the SSAT possible score range extremes (low and high) this anomaly is apparent, however, it can not be removed as long as the “level of difficulty” of each form is taken into consideration. It is simply a limitation of the scoring process."</p>

<p>Note that I have no official connection with SSAT. I am just a parent of a prospective BS applicant who took the SSAT this Fall.</p>

<p>Well, that explains the “perfect score” of 2375 for **FayMom<a href=“post%206”>/b</a>. I’ll apologize on behalf of the board for all who doubted your report, and on behalf of the world for not being fair!</p>

<p>SevenDad, i’m not sure what else you might want to hear regarding your original post. My d just got a “perfect” 2130 on the lower test (where scores range 440-710). She did have a few omits and wrongs in there, but I guess score equating worked in her favor.</p>

<p>@seekers: Well, while the SSAT explanation of Score Equating does explain why some people can get zero wrong and still not get an 800 on CR, that doesn’t mean that someone somewhere in the history of the test couldn’t have gotten the elusive 2400 — assuming they happened to take a test version that was slightly harder than the baseline…</p>

<p>I’m glad my children didn’t get “perfect” zero wrong zero admitted SSAT scores. Admissions folks love to talk about how many of them they deny. ;)</p>

<p>Sadly, I agree with Neatoburrito.</p>

<p>My son received a 800 in verbal (one error), a 800 in math (also one error) and a 794 in reading (with no errors). Administration in 2 of our 4 interviews were pleased to inform us that they regularly refuse seats to perfect scorers.</p>

<p>Our fingers are tightly crossed, however.</p>

<p>how is this for an alternative answer to the original quesdtion - a lot more often than on the ISEE these days</p>