<p>I just looked on the website. So, your raw score IS scaled, then they figure out the percentile from the SCALED score. Phew!!! If it really was that hard, we should all be scaled up, right? So our percentages won’t look so bad… right?</p>
<p>I’ve heard that they compare it to the past 3 years and I do think it’s unfair.</p>
<p>I struggled finishing on time. It was a little harder than I expected.</p>
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So you mean my percentile ranges from 70% to 90%?</p>
<p>Like I was saying before, they scale the score, so the average score will be the same every test date. THEN they do the percentile. So don’t worry, they make sure the score is equivalent to the past 3 years’ test average, then they base the percentile off the past 3 years’ scores.</p>
<p>My son attended this test. Because we did not do any practise before, we don’t know it is harder or easy. He told me that his math will be at most 2 mistakes. He thought his verbal was the worst, about 15 wrong and 5 omit. He is in 6th grade, so I don’t care a lot about the score. But today I found I am so anxious to know his score. :(</p>
<p>Did anybody receive their scores? If not, how long do they take?</p>
<p>Last year, I’m pretty sure we received scores within a month after testing – maybe two weeks after. Also, scores are uploaded to the SSAT website with a downloadable PDF.</p>
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<p>That’s not exactly how equating works. Well, not if it is linear equating (which the ssat uses). Also, it seems as though you are under the impression that the scaled score somehow depends on how well the people who took the same test on the same day performed. It doesn’t. The equating process takes place before the test is administered. Equating is a way to make up for differences in difficulties between different forms of the test. The difficulty of the test is determined before the new form is given. So while a raw score of 50 might yield a 600 on an easier test, the same raw score might yield a 620 on a more difficult test. When we say that a test is “standardized” it does not just mean that it tests the same concepts in a uniform way, it also means that the same scaled score reflects the same ability regardless of which particular form of the test a student took.</p>
<p>How the test writers determine how much more difficult or easy one form is from another is very complicated. One way that they do it is with that little extra section at the end that isn’t scored. These questions are used to develop new forms of the tests.</p>
<p>neato, my daughter found that section at the end that isn’t scored much easier than the parts that are scored. I had no idea what this was for…thanks for explaining</p>
<p>@NYCMom, I saw this section last year when I took it. The purpose of it seems to be to either: a) correlate percentage right in the short section to percentage right in the section that counts b) test new question types</p>
<p>I think It’s October 28th , sorry if I’m wrong</p>
<p>SSAT scores from 10/12 test were released to schools last night.</p>
<p>So, does that mean they will be released to us today?</p>
<p>so, we can know the score today?</p>
<p>Scores from the 10/12/13 SSAT exam are now available online.</p>
<p>I got my son’s name. He is 6 grade now. The score is terrible:
Verbal: 620 50%
math: 680 89%
Reading: 623 54%
Total: 1923 66%</p>
<p>too low :(</p>
<p>He’s in sixth grade for Pete’s sake!</p>
<p>but even for 6th grade, the score is too low</p>
<p>Did you make sure he took the lower level test? That could be a big difference.</p>