<p>I read the SSAT website about the sections in SSAT and time allowed for each section.</p>
<p>2 Math sections 25 questions each and 30 minutes for each section
1 Verbal section with 60 questions and 30 minutes
1 Reading section with 40 questions and 40 minutes
1 Writing section with 25 minutes</p>
<p>Is there a magical number for each section (except writing of course) beyond which, there is no point in guessing answers? For example, 40 questions in reading. How many correct answers are required to achieve 99 percentile, not all 40 I think. Likewise in Math, how many to answer correctly to achieve 99, etc. Thanks.</p>
<p>If you are able to get your hands on a copy of the princeton review ssat booklet. It tells you just about everything you need to know in there and more:)
It really helped me</p>
<p>These are questions to be debated. Nobody- except the SSAT makers themselves- can tell you for sure. The Princeton Review book and all, I think, prep books just give a somewhat wide range concerning scores, nothing exact. </p>
<p>For my part, I really didn’t like omitting questions, but it is a viable strategy since the SSAT takes off points for wrong answers and none for omitted. I don’t know if it’s possible to procure a 99% and omit. I omitted 5 total, missed quite a few more, and ended up with a 98% overall… So my guess is a yes.</p>
<p>i can tell you for sure that you don’t need a perfect in math or verbal in order to get a 99%…and I’m pretty sure the same goes for reading. The final percentiles all depend on how well everyone taking the test did.
And don’t count on not answering questions after “the point” because you’re “guaranteed a 99%” I thought I didn’t miss any questions on the math section when I took it…but…i did. XD</p>
<p>I really suggest buying the SSAT Princeton Review book as they will tell you EXACTLY how many questions to answer and a ton of tips and tricks that will definitely improve your scores. I hardly worked on the book and I still got a 90% overall even though I skipped quite a few. In my opinion, if you are choosing between 4 or 5 different answers and can’t eliminate at least 2, skip the question. Come back to it later, but don’t feel pressured to answer it as long as you haven’t skipped too many. Some people disagree with this method, but this is what has worked for me so I’m sticking to it. Also, after the test don’t feel discouraged, even if you think you did horribly. I thought I was going to get a 70% and was almost on the verge of crying after the test–so don’t worry so much about it </p>
<p>*Note I just pulled out my SSAT review book (2012 edition) and they have a chart which says how many questions who should attempt in order to achieve a certain score. If you want a 99 you should attempt (according to the book) all of the the questions in reading (40), 59-60 in verbal and 49-50 in quantitive. But at the end of the day, getting anything above an 85% is said to put you in the safe-zone for ALL schools. According to BS Review, Andover has the highest average of SSAT scores for all boarding schools and there’s is at 93%. Getting a 99% isn’t crucial. It’s great if you do, but the SSATs aren’t the deciding factor, they’re there to see if you can test well. I wouldn’t even worry about getting a 99% as that will not guarantee you a spot in admissions. Plenty of people who get 99% are rejected, so basically just do your best and hope that you did well.</p>
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