<p>I got my ssat scores today and i want to know if these scores are good enough.
Verbal:73%
Math:57%
Reading:91%
Overall: 76%</p>
<p>I am applying to
St George's, St Mark's,
Loomis Suffield Academy and Governor's Academy</p>
<p>I wonder why i did so bad in math, i guess there are just some huge math geeks out in the world</p>
<p>i think that you should really retake in jan & study harder</p>
<p>I think it is in the range for all your schools. Was that your first SSAT? You could retake it in Jan. to see if you can improve. Sometimes there are huge swings in scores from one test to another. However, give priority to your applications.</p>
<p>gcox</p>
<p>Your math score may have been lowered if you left several questions blank- skipped them. How many did you omit? That will really lower your potential score.</p>
<p>Technically, omitting questions doesn’t lower the score. Getting questions wrong, however, does - every question incorrectly answered takes 1/4 of a point from your score. Incorrectly answer four questions and you’ll lose one point. But think about it this way. If you guess incorrectly three times and therefore lose 3/4 of a point, all you need to do is guess correctly on another question that you don’t know the answer to and you’re 1/4 of a point up.</p>
<p>I don’t think the schools will accept scores from January though as I believe those schools’ deadlines are on or around January 15. Find out though! A retake could really help you if you use it right.</p>
<p>Really? I’m confused now. It has to lower your potential score if you omit items otherwise you could answer just one question and omit all the rest and get a perfect score. </p>
<p>Here’s how I understood it:</p>
<p>If you answer correctly you get 1 point
If you omit you get 0
If you guess wrong you only lose 1/4 point
If you guess right you get 1 point</p>
<p>So it seems you should guess rather than leave it blank. </p>
<p>My DS’s lowest score was in the section where he omitted items and his highest 98% was where he did not omit any items. </p>
<p>Am I misunderstanding this? If so I am sorry for giving misleading advice!</p>
<p>PA-C is correct.</p>
<p>Statistically speaking if you can eliminate two of the choices you have a better chance of guessing, however if you truly have no idea it is better to just omit the question.</p>
<p>I have posted this before. This was my D’s experience with guessing or omitting.<br>
The first time my D took the SSAT she answered all the questions in math in both sections. The second time she left about 8 blank in one section. If she had answered all of the questions, and got them all wrong, she would have had the exact same number wrong as she did on the first test in this section. Just by omitting answers and a very slight improvement in the second section, one additional correct answer, she improved her score by 20 percentile points.</p>
<p>i don’t omit just because i’d rather know i got it wrong. personal preference.</p>
<p>yeah that confused me too. but when you get it wrong, what it SEEMS like is that you get 1/4 of a point off. but in reality, by getting it wrong you don’t get that 1 point you’d get if you got it right, AND that 1/4 is ticked off your score. so technically, you lose 1 1/4 marks.</p>
<p>Ya you lose 1 1/4 assuming that your guess was going to be correct.</p>
<p>hmm, just wondering… what does it take for Exeter and Andover? (for SSAT’s)</p>
<p>i got Math 99%(800) Verbal 83%(720) Reading 93%(720) Overall 95%</p>
<p>do i really have to get perfect scores if im not liek an ambassadors son?</p>
<p>and gcox, im not certian about the other schools, but i know you have a really good shot at Loomis</p>
<p>we30- no, you don’t have to get perfect scores. that’s perfectly in their range which is like 80-99. SSAT scores aren’t a big part of admissions</p>
<p>yeh i ges… what would you say is the most important?</p>
<p>Well, the thing is, the people applying to Exeter and Andover are like (for the most part) 80’s-90’s SSAT range, good grades in school, EC’s of some sort… many people are in the same boat. So, the things that are important are the things that will set you apart from the rest of the pack, such as the essays, interviews, and teacher reccomendations. Those will all let the private schools gather a lot of insight on your personality, work ethic, passions, etc. So, I’d say that the SSAT scores aren’t extremely important, same with grades in school (unless you like skipped a grade in math or something, because that would stand out to them as something good), though school grades are deifnitely more important than SSAT grades. But again, that’s not set in stone, that is from what I’ve seen discussed and my past experience with friends who’ve applied to Exeter, etc. That doesn’t even include all of the little things that can also help you out, such as your parents professions (public school principals/superintendents are always nice parents to have because of connections), legacies, siblings who’ve attended, letters your teachers may write OUTSIDE of the standard math/english teacher reccomendations… All of that comes into play, and you never know what the applicants you are up against are like, which is why it’s so hard to predict whether or not you can get in somewhere.</p>
<p>yeh, im a trachers pet kinda kid and my GPA is always above 4.0 (straight A’s=4.0, straight A+'s=4.33) so im usually at a 4.15… and my teacher recomendations should all be fine. and matter of fact i skipped 2 grades in math, im taking a 10th grade honors course hahah, i have to walk to my high school to take math class, its just down the street luckily. and interviews went well i ges, we talked too long lol, but i think overall i didnt freeze up, so that should be good. and the essay i think is my week point. i rewrite them like everyday and i have good experinces and all in them, but they dont seem like tear-jerking kinda essays or anything. and for extra curricular, i do basic school programs… (math counts, constitutional debate, National Jr honor society treasurer, peer tutors) and my hockey team is ranked 6th in the country, but like im no national spelling we champion or like trilingual or something crazy. so idk, i feel confident but at the same time veryyyyy questionable about my chances.</p>
<p>haha sorry about all the spelling errors in that last paragraph.</p>
<p>No problem I’m sure you were busy socializing while you were writing it. ^.^</p>
<p>Yes, I actually was on AIM =p haha</p>
<p>THE MOST IMPORTANT PART: Whatever makes you uniqe.</p>
<p>hmm, yeh. Well I was born in Bermuda. I think that should do.</p>