<p>Did anyone else think that the SSAT on October 12, 2013 was hard?</p>
<p>My kids and others we know all said it was much harder than practice tests.</p>
<p>My son has taken many practice tests and said it was significantly harder to him</p>
<p>Nobody panic! If it felt harder to everyone, then raw scores might dip but percentiles would in theory remain the same?</p>
<p>I took the test.
The math is harder than it’s usually does but still not that hard.</p>
<p>For me, English is just as hard as it is before.</p>
<p>English is not my first language anyway</p>
<p>My daughter took it. She finished the English section early and said the Math section was more difficult. She did take several practice tests, although focused more on the English than the Math, which may have been why that section was easier for her. She felt good about her overall performance on the test. Can’t wait to see the scores!</p>
<p>My daughter took it and said the math was really hard.</p>
<p>My daughter also thought the math was hard. She felt good about the english. Have all of your children taken the lower test and this is the first time they are taking the upper level SSAT’s? That could account for the jump in difficulty.</p>
<p>No, this is the first time my daughter has taken the SSAT. She is in 8th grade and currently taking Geometry, so that helped, but she still thought it was hard. She took the ISEE last year and the Math was difficult on that test too.</p>
<p>I felt like it was harder. I skipped about 2 questions during the definitions in verbal, which I NEVER did during practice tests. The analogies, for some reason, seemed about the same.</p>
<p>I felt like math was harder; I took a practice test and had at least 10 minutes to spare, but during the real test I had about 5 during a section.</p>
<p>I took it then too. After getting 97% on 5 practice tests FROM the SSATB, I felt as if the reading section especially was very difficult. I skipped a whole selection, which I had NEVER done before. Everything seemed so much harder than before, and I am scared to get by results in the coming week</p>
<p>Was it intentionally harder? Or will they scale our results?</p>
<p>:eek: oh. My. God. :eek: how could they 
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<p>Guys, can you please help me estimate my overall percentile with my SSAT Practice Test:</p>
<p>Guys, can you please help me estimate my overall percentile with my SSAT Practice Test:</p>
<pre><code>+Verbal: wrong: 12-omitted:7
+Math: wrong: 6- omitted: 1
+Reading: wrong: 10- omitted: 3
</code></pre>
<p>I am really appreciated your help. Please give me some feedbacks, I must get up to 90% this November 9th SSAT Test. That is my last chance…</p>
<p>Forgot to say, I am in grade 9th.</p>
<p>Im not sure, but i think 70-90 percentile. Im just taking a prediction based on what you wrote. Now you may have a high percentile if you did better than the students that took it on the same day. Hope we both get a veryhigh percentile. Good luck to both of us!</p>
<p>I thought it was just that they compare scores with kids in your own grade who took the test on that day. If they have made the test more difficult and they are comparing these scores to those who have taken the test in the last 3 years then the scores would not be accurate. I suppose over the years they have to slowly make shifts here and there in there testing questions as the student population shifts and changes.</p>
<p>BTW: My daughter was asking me the other day when she should expect to hear back about her scores (she took the test on October 12th). Does anybody know?</p>
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<p>Your scaled score is based on the predetermined difficulty of the test, but the percentile is not based on the kids who took the same test on that day. The percentile is based on every other kid of your grade and gender who got the same scaled score on tests over the past three years.</p>