<p>Hey guys, how you did on SSAT today? I thought it was a little bit hard. If most of people had a lower score than in other SSAT tests, will the percentile be higher than usual?</p>
<p>Yes 10Char</p>
<p>Yes what???</p>
<p>I think that’s right. I had a much harder time on this test then on any of my practice tests</p>
<p>Yeah I took three practice tests and today’s SSAT was a lot harder than all of them</p>
<p>Vocabulary was insanely HARD the math you have to be really good t…I probably passed reading but I might retake it.</p>
<p>don’t worry guys. they grade based on PERCENTILE which is compared o how many other people took the test, and I think a lot of people had a tough time with the test. yes, it was hard but you’re not alone on that, and essentially it’s graded on a curve. :)</p>
<p>Yes, but the curve is over the past 3 years…</p>
<p>There’s a bit of misinformation here. The scaled score (200-800) is based on the predetermined difficulty of the test. This is why the same raw score ( points earned ) can yield slightly different scaled scores. It is the same for all students on a given test date. </p>
<p>The percentile reflects the percentage of students of your grade and gender who earned a scaled score equal to or less than yours. This is based on the prior three years’ results. Whether the test for which the percentile is assigned is included in those prior tests or not, I don’t know.</p>