<p>My raw SSAT math score was 734. That is the 84%tile, but that is my lowest percentile and the rest were in the high 90’s.</p>
<p>I think in math you can’t miss as many as in say verbal last year I missed 12 in verbal and omitted 4 and I got in the 89th percentile while in math I just missed 8 and I got in the 83rd percentile</p>
<p>i missed 8 and got in the 83rd for math too. Missed 7 in verbal and got in the 98th. Missed 2 in reading and got in the 99th. Seems like Math is harder.</p>
<p>It’s weird though. People will either have their math score low or verbal low compared to all their other scores.</p>
<p>It’s a conspiracy!</p>
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<p>That’s a bit confusing. Our son’s SSAT math score was was 743, but that was only 78%ile.</p>
<p>By the way, he was 78% in math but 99% overall. Weird because math is normally a major strength for him. How many would recommend that he re-take to raise his math score?</p>
<p>wait how could you get 99% overall with a low math… Did he get 99 for both subjects? I got 98 and 99 in English and 83 in math for a 98th overall.</p>
<p>Im just confused with how that worked</p>
<p>Along with his 78% in math, he got 96% in verbal and 99% in reading - and a total of 2307 or 99% overall. So… should he repeat to raise his math score, which I think he can, because he is actually very strong in math? Or is the anomalously low math score sufficiently offset by the 99% overall that he should just let it go as is?</p>
<p>I don’t think the overall score is an average, in fact I am certain that it is not. I got 2 99’s and in the seventies, and overall 99. Soo… I think it is the number of people in your gender and age who got the same scores as you or whatever… btw, who else thinks that it is weird that it is grouped by gender?</p>
<p>Quite honestly the SSATs are not important at all. Getting the 99% puts him in the applicant pool already, and if they look at his math grades, they should be great according to your claim. Better to work on essays than waste time and money taking another test 
I’m speaking this from experience.</p>
<p>The overall is the overall raw score compared to everyone else’s overall raw score. Plus the 99% overall varies a lot, I think they look more at your raw score, because someone that is 14 applying for 9th grade and 13 applying for 9th grade that got the same score, will have a widely different percentile. But I don’t think he needs to retake it, as long as he’s over the 90s it shouldn’t make a difference. Unless you think he can get a perfect score in math, which might influence their placement decision (I got 800 in the math and did well in the placement test, so they placed me at a higher level even though I didn’t take the necessarily prerequisite classes.)</p>
<p>It IS weird that it’s gender grouped. o.o But yeah, the overall score isn’t an average-- it just shows what percentile of people in your gender/age scored lower than you. I got an 84 for math and two 99s, with a 99 overall, so it shouldn’t be the average, I think.</p>
<p>I’m pretty certain that the overall score is the sum, not the average, of the individual scores; i.e., 770+743+794=2307 and 2307 puts him in the 99th percentile overall for 8th grade boys. (And it still strikes me as a bit weird that 743 is only the 78th percentile for math too. Oh well…)</p>
<p>I posted in this and it didn’t show up… weird… Im pretty sure I missed the 99th by one question 
but I’m not complaining</p>
<p>It’s easier for girls to get a higher percentile because, apparently, girls don’t do as well as boys on this test, especially in math. That’s why they compare by gender and grade. There must be a statistically significant difference between boys and girls so they rate them differently to correct for possible gender bias.</p>
<p>Perhaps 743 is the 78th percentile because many 21 percent of people do better than 743? I know that’s sort of obvious but keep in mind that percentiles are just, well, percentiles. If 5 people took the test, 1 got 200, 1 got 300, 1 got 743, and 2 got 800, that would still put the 743 in a low percentile.</p>
<p>I’m back at exeter right now but if you have questions I"ll still answer them for you. I might not be able to answer them immediately because I’m busy but I’ll try to get to them all answered for you.</p>