<p>on my ssat chart percentile conversion, for the reading section, it says that you need to get 40 questions right (out of 40) to get a 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93... so if you get one wrong, you're in the 92? how does that happen?? i know it's percentile, but really.. the reading brings down everyone's score.</p>
<p>it really does. it sucks. and i have no idea how they grade that</p>
<p>It does. I got 4 questions wrong and got a 96... that's a whole percentile off for each answer. It annoys me, because it varies so much. My friend got a 98one time and then an 86 the next.</p>
<p>If someone gets everything right, then they automatically have to get a 99. If they get one wrong, as you said, they'll get a 92. How is that possible? No one will get a 93-98?</p>
<p>you think schools look at the actual number of questions right and wrong? because w/ this scoring, i might get in the early eighties..</p>
<p>no they will.. the chart says if you get everything right, you either get a 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94... i dont understand.</p>
<p>i got 5 wrong and i got a lovely 75. >:l
yes, i know I'm a sophomore, but still 5 points each!</p>
<p>yeah thats ridiculous... the questions are very ambiguous too.. like, i can interpret them a few dif ways and sometimes its just so.. when i look at the right answer, i'm just like.. yeah, and?? this is just like the other one really.. you think if on the teacher reccomendation your teacher notes that you interpret literature very well and remember a lot (it's one of the questions) that they won't regard the test as accurate?</p>
<p>I think they'll look at how many you got wrong; it's the opposite on Veral - you can get 11 wrong and still get a 99, so they'll see that if you're amazing at Verbal and terrible at Reading, and they'll begin to wonder. I'm sure your reading skills can show through on your recommendations and in your essays.</p>
<p>Reading, apparently, was my strongest section. I am not sure about the validity of that chart; the scale seems to be abitrary. I got 98 percentile with two wrong. I'm male, grade nine.</p>
<p>i agree with you blair. I take SAT prep classes. The reading is a lot harder (more inference) on the SAT so I thought the SSATs would be a piece of cake. I was so wrong, the SSAT has questions that are more.. simple. so I over-interpreted and freaked out during the test.</p>
<p>I think it depends alot on what gender and grade you are since the test is for 9-12th graders, so the older you are the less you can get wrong.</p>
<p>yeah it does. for some reason its easier for girls according to their way of grading.</p>
<p>The percentiles are annoying sometimes, but they usually make sense if you get the actual scores, not just the charts in the books. I don't think you can get eleven wrong and still get 99th percentile, Olivia. Reading has more consequence for every question because it has the fewest questions, and kids tend to get more right on the Reading.</p>
<p>really? almost everyone I've talked to always have trouble on the reading. </p>
<p>what about bad test-taking skills? some kids have amazing students, but cant take tests for life. Do schools take that into account too?</p>
<p>Really? I thought that each question was a different value....</p>
<p>Sure, they know everyone's not a good test-taker. I think they want people to do all right (just because there are lots of tests that you have to take in prep schools, and they want to to be ready for that), but they understand that it's not everyone's strong suit.</p>
<p>yeah i overinterpret the reading. i did so on the verbal a bit to.. one was like.. human : primate .. so i was like, okay, primates are the forefathers of man.. and one of the answers was disease : bacterium, and i know that all primordial bacteria was a predecessor for the more dangerous modern bacteria (disease, viruses, disease) today.. but the real answer was snake : reptile .. because a snake is a member of the reptile family.. but my answer belonged in this group also.. ugh.. they should really be more careful.</p>
<p>Msu, that's what I did on one of my practice tests. I over-interpreted.</p>
<p>Yeah, I used to do that, especially on maths problems in the fifth and sixth grade. The work was stuff I already knew, but I started trying to figure in new concepts and other things and it didn't work when all we were supposed to do was prime factor something. :D That's one thing that I learn; I still over-interpret, but I learned not to some. It's helped me with tests like that.</p>