I have 3 B+ and 2 A- for my school trimester grades (I already go to a top day school and they don’t give A+) and I got a 93 grade/94 gender on the ssat. Will schools think that I slack off in school because I don’t get all As but I got a good test score?
I think it depends on what classes you’re getting B’s in. Say if you were getting B’s in Calc when you’re in 8th grade might explain that it’s just a difficult class, or if it’s a B in art and you’re just not good at that (which can be explained through essays and interviews). But if you’re getting B’s in normal classes like 8th grade English in 8th grade that might mean something. Again, I’m not an expert on this, but that’s just my feedback. Good job on your SSAT’s though!
What does “94 gender on the ssat” mean?
@sgopal2 when you get your score back there are two percentile scores, one comparing you to everyone in your grade and one comparing you to only people of the same gender in your grade.
There are two percentile scores that are shown on the SSAT reports. 1) SSAT percentile - this is a percentile of all national test takers within the last 3 years who took the SAT by gender and 2) Estimated National Percentile - this compares you to a hypothetical group of students in your grade across the US.
A 94th percentile score for “SSAT Percentile” would normally place you at the 99th percentile for Estimated National percentile. Are you sure you’re reading the score report correctly?
The scores that the schools look at is #1 SSAT percentile - which is already broken down by grade and gender
@sgopal2 I’m not sure, I’m just citing the explanation that was on my score report.
@sgopal2 I just took the December SSAT and in the report they have two things (the grade obviously changes): 1) Grade 9 Total, in which they list the percentage distribution (verbal,quant,reading and the total)
2) Grade 9 Female (or I suppose male depending on the individual) and then a percentage distribution based on gender…
There is no estimated national percentile on my report hmmm… I took the test outside the US… maybe thats why… @jjbb123 did you take the test outside the us as well?
@Atria no I took it in the US… I’m pretty sure there is no estimated national percentile for the ssat
SSAT no longer calculates an Estimated National Percentile. I don’t think they have for at least the last two years, maybe three. I spoke with customer service a few months ago about this, and they said they discontinued it because it was unreliable. Basically, they were guessing what a raw score would translate to when normed against the entire student population, rather than just the students actually taking the SSAT, and so was typically 3-7% higher than the SSAT normed figures that we’re used to seeing, and which are still reported.
Ok yes that makes sense. My son had estimated national percentiles on his SSAT score report from 3 years ago.