<p>I got in the 63% percentile but I got a 2097 score on the ssat, does that seem accurate?</p>
<p>Yeah because its a scaled score which means if the test administered was an easier version than the percentile will be lower because its hard to get a high percentile on the easier versions of the the test. The number score stays the same thou. I got a 2198 and was in the 80th percentile</p>
<p>Your SSAT % is based on the norm group you are being compared to: first-time test takers of the same grade and gender who took the test for the first time on one of the 8 standard SSAT dates in the US and Canada over the last 3 years. The % score has nothing to do with the level of difficulty of the test you took.
Your scale score is the true score, how you actually did on the test. The SSAT % shows you how your scaled score compares to the norm group.
SSAT has webinars that teach you about your score report and what all the different scores mean. You can find them on the ssat.org website. They are sometimes live but you can watch already recorded ones too.</p>
<p>Oh does that mean if you take it a second time, that you are compared to other people who took it for the second time? I did not know that.</p>
<p>No- you aren’t compared to second time testers. Your ssat % is figured out based on the norm group every time- no matter how many times you take it in a year. The norm group is the same for the whole year (first time test takers of the same grade and gender in the US and Canada who took the test on one of the 8 dates from the last 3 years) and then next year it will change a little because the norm group changes to be the most recent 3 years of kids again.
But the scaled score shows your true score - how you did on the test. The ssat % shows how your scaled score compares to kids in previous years.</p>
<p>That’s what I thought. Thanks for the clarification.</p>