<p>blairt, you can get in the 99th percentile, because it's percentile among tenth graders. You're only being compared to tenth graders. Therefor, some tenth graders must get in the 99th percentile.</p>
<p>blair... i got a 96 in verbal last time and i did horrible (9 wrong)!
i got more than 6 wrong on the whole test. i got a 94%
your scale isnt right.
im pretty sure you can get 99% because you're compared with 10th graders. you can do 99% better than everyone. it cant be graded by the number of wrong answers you get</p>
<p>the scales are wierd. im a ninth grade guy and i got 3 wrong on reading on december test, ended up being an 86 percentile</p>
<p>ya thats cuz most people get more right on the reading.. i know, on the practice tests i usually got like 2-4 wrong.</p>
<p>Obviously you can get a 99.... it is compared to 10th graders and it is alittle harder than the comparison to 9th graders. I cant believe no one new that.</p>
<p>George, Msu and I both posted that above.</p>
<p>ok....</p>
<p>because SO MANY 10th graders get perfect scores (or close to it), you cant get in the 99% because the 99% means you did better than 99 other students.. NOW, if there are more than 1 in 100 tenth graders who gets a perfect score then you automatically cannot get in the 99% if you get a perfect score (or whatever supposively qualifies you for a 99%).... hm?</p>
<p>yes you do.</p>
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<p>You mean one out of ninety-nine? I think 5,000 people take the test.</p>
<p>blairt, you can get in the 99th percentile. That is the way it works.
Olivia, I believe being in the 99th percentile means that on average, out of the 5,000 students who took the test, if you randomly selected one hundred, you would be likely to have done better than 99 of them.</p>
<p>The percentile is based on the scores from the past three years. I doubt they compare you randomly to 100 because I'm sure once or twice you end up being compared to a lot of perfect scores.</p>
<p>99th percentile means that you scored better than 99% of the people that took that test over the past three years who is the same sex and in the same grade as you.</p>
<p>No, no, Jonathan, you misunderstood me. That certainly would be arbitrary! What I meant was that if you get in the 99th percentile, if you did that (randomly selected 100 students) you would likely to have done better than 99 of them. The actual way they figure it is much more complicated. Do you see what I mean?</p>
<p>Oh, sorry.</p>
<p>I understand you now. :)</p>
<p>actually random selection might not statiscally work,but your score would put you in the top 1% of BS applicants given a 99th percentile.Tjink of it as a class rank if you are #4/400.</p>
<p>Interesting way to think about it. Thanks, Francis.</p>
<p>When do you guys get your results back? It seems like it's been longer than it was in December and November.</p>
<p>i know seriously! i got it back in a week in december</p>
<p>ahhh.. lets see.. that was 8 days ago we took the test. it's 7-10 days right? or 1-2 weeks? latest day we can get it is the 29th (AHHHHHH), but i think we're supposed to get it around the 22nd... ahh. umm.. how many days did it take you to get is MSU?</p>
<p>and where are the headquarters for the SSAT? NJ? thats hwy you wuld get it quicker MSU..</p>
<p>really? they just emailed it to me within a week. not even!
i got it the friday after i took it. so... 6 days</p>
<p>Yeah but didn't you do the flex test or something? You might get your results faster that way. Or did you pay for the faster delivery?</p>
<p>I got my results thirteen days after taking the test. I didn't pay for special delivery and it was on a regular national test date.</p>