SSAT perfect score?

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<p>With apologies in advance for bringing up a question that is at best obnoxious, what is a perfect score on the SSAT?</p>

<p>The reason I ask is that a friend got the following scores:</p>

<p>Verbal, 794, 7 wrong, 1 omitted
Math, 794, 2 wrong, 1 omitted
Reading, 794, 0 wrong, 0 omitted</p>

<p>Does 800 actually exist? If so, why was the Reading score 794? If not, why is 800 listed as the top score?</p>

<p>A secondary question is how many wrong/omitted can one have and still get a top score?</p>

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<p>800 does actually exist--that's what I made on math. Ask if you can read your friend's entire score report. That usually clarifies issues about scores.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I got 798 on math, so higher scores do exist.</p>

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<p>This one seems the most off-kilter:</p>

<p>Verbal, 794, 7 wrong, 1 omitted</p>

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<p>I am looking at the score report and can confirm that the numbers in the post were as reported. The score I don't understand is the Reading score, considering that all the questions were answered correctly.</p>

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<p>Strange about getting everything correct, but not getting the 800. I don't know how they do the calculations.</p>

<p>D'yer: I am looking at a score report where the Verbal is 794, and it was computed from:</p>

<p>Verbal</p>

<p>Synonyms: Right 25 Wrong 5 Omitted 0
Analogies: Right 28 Wrong 2 Omitted 0</p>

<p>But the odd thing about the SSAT is that different grades take the same test, but then are scored within their own grade. So maybe 7 questions wrong can give a 794 for grade 8, but you can only get 1 wrong to get a 794 if you are in grade 9. The SSAT web site doesn't get very specific with how the scores are computed. Maybe one of the prep books explains how they scale everything, but I don't have one of those here to examine.</p>

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<p>I thought the SSAT Score was not normed by grade but that the percentile is versus grade/gender?</p>

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<p>OP -- Why don't you email your question to the SSAT people? I think they can explain it. If you hear back, would you post it here?</p>

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<p>The Reading score does seem odd. My son got an 800 on the Reading portion, but that was over a year ago, so maybe this year was different.</p>

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<p>My D scored an 800 verbal.</p>

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<p>it does, i got one.</p>

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<p>congrats to all of you. I got 791 (i think) for Math and only got one wrong so of course there will be better scores.</p>

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<p>There are some really bright kids out there. I didn't take the SSAT. lol</p>

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<p>A perfect score on the SSAT is 99th percentile, I think, since that's how they report the grade.</p>

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<p>Yeah I got the 99% and I got 800 in Verbal and 791 in Math and no mistakes in reading so not sure what I got for Reading. </p>

<p>Math pulled me down and I only got 1 wrong...</p>

<p>Not sure I got 791 may have been higher but definitely not 800.</p>