So, I took the SSAT a few days ago and I’m a bit nervous about my scores. I skipped. a WHOLE LOT of questions especially in the math section. Does anyone know if that will ruin my chances because I skipped a few questions. I really am trying to get into boarding school for high school and I am so scared
First of all, don’t stress about it, because you can’t change it now. Also, with the SSAT, skipping questions doesn’t take away any points, and schools will look at your overall score and not at how many questions you skipped. No one can say if it will ruin your chances now because the overall score is what is most important. Good luck!
Ok thank you I will stop stressing. Hopefully, my overall score is decent.
The number of questions skipped can limit how high one can score on the SSAT.
First of all, good luck in your applications and like others said, there’s nothing you can do about it now! Omitting questions on the SSAT will not result in losing points however it will result in you not getting any points. The way scoring works like this; a raw score is calculated for each section (the two math sections are combined) were you get a point for every correct question, a quarter point for every incorrect question, and no points for omitted questions. Here’s an example for the math section:
Quantitative, 50 questions total: 50 points possible
40 correct: 40 points
5 incorrect: 1.25 points
5 omitted: 0 points
Total: 41.25 points
So, if you look above, you’ll notice that there were no points deducted for skipping points put that’s because they are empty points. So although you had a potential 50 points to score, you would be capped at 50 - X omitted questions, which in this scenario is 45. The reason why they do this and also give you a quarter point for incorrect answers is to incentivize not skipping questions and to help make you a ‘better guesser.’
Skipping a question is better than getting one wrong
@wootkur I don’t remember them giving points for incorrect answers? I’m pretty sure someone with 40 correct, 5 incorrect and 5 skipped would score a 38.75? (-0.25 per wrong, 1 per correct)
It’s been a while since I did my test though and if this is wrong, full apologies :’)
Yeah that’s wrong. Raw scoring involves 0.25 per incorrect, 0 for omitted, and 1 for correct. @FunintheSun1211 I don’t agree with that logic because if you skip four you get 0 but if you get for wrong you get 1 point. I’ll look for an ssat official website link
^Ummmm, what? You get DEDUCTED 0.25 points for getting it wrong. You don’t gain or lose points if it is omitted. That’s why it is important to consider when to guess, you run the risk of losing 0.25.
@babymalcolm yeah that’s what I was thinking? I’m pretty sure they were negative marks…