My daughter is applying 6th grade private schools. She just finished taking 2 SSAT tests recently, one on January 2018 and one on February 2018. We scheduled two tests because she has never taken any major test in her life, our family and her school aren’t big on test either, we felt with two tests it might help ease her in. The first one she got a total scale of 2007, Math 94%, Vebal 89%, and reading 96%. We were happy with the result so we sent them to the schools (all are top rated schools in WA state). She went on to take the second one just for experience. The second test result was - total scale 2022, Math 99%, Verbal 99%, and Reading 71%. We were absolutely shocked at her low reading score, she is always a great advance reader. Now, with this combination, should we even send the second score? Her past and recent school report cards and teachers’ narratives all consisted with strong scores on her reading subject, both on fiction and nonfiction books. It’s such a tough decision. Can you give us your advice? Thank you!
Many school superscore - if you send two, they only consider the better score. Though you need to check, first. Also, many schools find 71% an amazing score. Keep in mind this is a percentile score, not a percentage. Don’t forget to check the average SSAT score for admitted students at that school.
I think you should send the first score, though, because both the Math and Verbal scores in both tests have amazing results, and I don’t think the slightly lower scores in the first test will make that much of a difference as long as they compensate for the higher Reading score.
It depends on the composite percentile. If the second score has a much higher percentile (in total), then I think it wouldn’t be as simple as that.
I would like to congratulate your daughter for working so hard on her SSAT! A vast majority of schools (if not all) consider these scores to be very impressive.
@brassarrow gave a great summary. However, I think that you should send in both scores because the two 99% are quite impressive, and your school may superscore (meaning that your daughter’s score would be 99%, 99% & 96%).