<p>I took the test in November, and got 94% (2220) total
99% reading comp
94% verbal
69% math</p>
<p>My math section was really bad…
lol I didn’t get to finish the questions on time… It takes me forever to solve those math problems!!!</p>
<p>Any tips on the math section???
I want to retake it in January!</p>
<p>whynot67; The only surefire way to improve your math for the SSAT is to do practice test over and over again. Perhaps go through some old math textbooks if you have them and review the basic algebra and numerical information. Good luck!</p>
<p>Wow! How do you guys get so high on the writing and reading?! I take a whole lot of practice tests and i still don’t get it??? I get 800 on math all the time! What’s going on???</p>
<p>^^Math, you can solve. Reading, you can’t directly “solve” through equations and tricks.</p>
<p>99% Verbal
87% Math
99% Reading
99% Overall
I think that math was hard this year, harder to get a high percentage.</p>
<p>thank you aaralyn!
I already did many of the practice math sections. It’s weird because I can solve them perfectly at the house but not during the real test! I always run out of time… I think I just get really nervous…</p>
<p>How do you guys manage get a 99% on the vocab section?
I memorized a lot of words, but 99% seems impossible…</p>
<p>Any tips on the vocab section?</p>
<p>Read a lot. It’s key to great vocab.</p>
<p>I took the ISEE and I don’t know how it compares but-
97%(914, 4 Wrong)-Verbal
99%(920, 1 Wrong)-Reading Comprehension
99%(928, 0 Wrong)-Quantitative Reasoning
99%(933, 1 Wrong)-Mathematical Achievement</p>
<p>The percentiles reveal how you compare with students of your grade and gender who have taken the test over the past 3 years. Boys usually score higher in math, and so the curve will be high. International students tend to perform better than American students, and so - assuming that “Milo” is an American boy - that 87% in math is a very good score. Probably a certain percentage of students get perfect scores each year. My older son’s highest score on his second round of SSATs was in math, but it was his lowest percentile ranking.His reading score placed him somewhere around 95% (I forget exactly), despite the fact that it was ten points below the math score which was a 79%. That was somewhere in the mid-700s, and so - if you are currently in the eighth grade - you probably had a very high score in order to make it up to the 87th percentile.</p>
<p>Yep, everything you said is correct. I got a 767 on the math I think(off the top of my head). While getting perfect scores on everything else.</p>
<p>@whynot67: Yep, just keep reading, but also don’t forget to utilize the flash cards that come at the end of those practice books. Also, pay special attention to the “hit parades” or “most commonly used” words on the test. I don’t know if anyone else noticed this or not, but a lot of SAT and SSAT vocab. are the same. So, it doesn’t hurt to study some SAT words either: “kill two birds with one stone” or what you will. I think that I got around four questions wrong on my SSAT test, but still got a 99%, and I’m an 8th grade girl…</p>
<p>Woah, I just joined the convo! I took the SSAT in November, and I just studied for a few days… maybe a week. I got 96 percentile overall… I hope that’s alright. From reading the first page, I feel like there are many people who got 98 or 99 percentile… does anyone know if being a little lower will make a bad impression or something? And congrats and good job to all of you… (even if you did badly) there’s a lot of pressure when taking these tests. :P</p>
<p>Big whoops, as long as you get within a certain range, SSAT scores stop mattering.</p>
<p>I got a 92%. My individual scores were:
Verbal - 88%
Math - 87%
Reading - 91%</p>
<p>It’s not stellar, but it’s certainly in the range of acceptance 
I got straight As on my report card at a strong private day school, so hopefully they will cancel out.</p>
<p>2380 Math:800 verbal: 800 Reading:780, all in the 99th percentiles, upper level test applicant for upper year. Do admissions officers really consider the scores that vital in the admittance process?</p>
<p>Math: 800, 99%
Verb: 800, 99%
Reading: 728, 95%
Overall: 99%</p>
<p>How much does it help? I wonder.</p>
<p>That’s really good! Great job :)</p>
<p>Seems like so long ago that I was worrying about the SSAT.</p>
<p>I actually didn’t study very much… took maybe three, four practice tests, and skimmed through a few books from the library. I didn’t like the Kaplan much, but found the Princeton Review pretty good, mostly because they had explanations for the problems. Nowhere near as much prep as I did for the SAT, but then again, I think a lot of what I learned then plays into my taking all standardized tests now, including the SSAT. They’re all somewhat similar.
As for the TOEFL, I just read over how many questions there were, etc. and glanced at the computer program the night before. A warning, though: the TOEFL centers are LOUD. You get cubicles, and noise-cancelling headphones… so USE THEM. There were people who literally were yelling into the mics (afraid that they wouldn’t record?).</p>
<p>The results: 98% SSAT, 112 (out of 120) TOEFL.</p>
<p>After finding out my family was being relocated, I had about 2 weeks in all to take my SSAT and write all my applications. Which, of course, means I didn’t have time to study at all with the all the normal homework I already had combined with application essays. I took the last SSAT you can before admissions close(the January one) but luckily I’m a good tester even without studying!</p>
<p>Verbal: 98%- 782
Math: 93%-761
Reading: 92%-722
Overall: 97%-2265</p>