<p>A place to share your SSAT test scores, if you like.
I am ecstatic! I did so wonderfully, I can't believe it. I mean, I could have done better in Math but I only got an 85% in that and a 99% in Verbal and a 98% in Reading. I did the best in the section I was most worried about!!
I got a 99% overall- and I thought I would get a 93% at best!
Has anyone else been completely surprised, good or bad, when it comes to test scores?</p>
<p>Good for you! That's fantastic!</p>
<p>I have yet to take mine, so wish me luck. =]</p>
<p>o0o0 last year i did TERRIBLE! congratz to you though. but if i tried this year, id do better. I got a 72%ile last year but i didn't study. but if i tried this year, id get at least an 80%. howd u pull it off? or howd you study? cause you did FABULOUS on the verbal section which is the hardest....well at least to me. :)</p>
<p>I took a practice test on a saturday afternoon and used about 2/3 of my time and got a 95%. My school administers a practice test(20 days later, I didn't study at all) and my results were 99%. Overall, I think the more school I go through the better I get. My grades and test scores always get better in march.</p>
<p>Plus I wasn't at home with distractions and was in a completely silent room(almost).</p>
<p>I did look over vocabulary before I took the first SSAT, for about three days. I missed three vocabulary questions total from both tests... I was an avid reader and still read a little.</p>
<p>Good job, italian! And Senay, 72% isn't that bad.</p>
<p>Son exceeded his target in verbal and reading and tanked on the math. He thinks he misbubbled somewhere but I'm not sure. He'll retake on the 8th and see. If he didn't misbubble, it'll be really weird - like he has some kind of right hemisphere disorder or something! Seriously, 99V, 99R 51Q???? We had a good laugh about it though. Which is worse, being average in math or being too stupid to properly fill in the answer sheet? He'll do practise test this week and I'll have him mark the sheet after every five answers. (He skips around a lot and that may have thrown him off - it's his excuse anyway.) Practise tests have always yielded math in the 80s.</p>
<p>Yeah, Senay. Consider that 72 means that you are near the top quarter of the top 5 percent of kids nationwide. I think many often lose sight of the who takes this test. It's the brightest kids in the country.</p>
<p>mmoyan & neatoburrito,</p>
<p>aww thanks. im actually happy about the scores, but compared to other applicants, i did terrible. </p>
<p>others,</p>
<p>haha! ironic how verbal was the hardest part for me but i did the best in that section. lol</p>
<p>haha neatoburrito that's such an adorable story XD</p>
<p>i can imagine a boy running around helplessly going BUT IT WAS THE BUBBLE SHEET! THEY'RE EVIL!@@@ while you're chasing him going like "HOW DID YOU GET THIS??"</p>
<p>Haha my mom was so happy for me... then she realised this would a bonus on my application. XP She doesn't want me to leave her!! haha</p>
<p>Oh I was surprised by my scores. On practice tests I barely got overall 90 percentiles and on verbal I even got 85 percentiles, but on the actual test I got a 99 percentile.</p>
<p>Before I switched schools the school administered test dictated the classes one took. It had like four sections and I got 99, 99, 99, 3. I misbubbled from the beginning. I was in remedial reading for a while before I was switched. It was so funny.</p>
<p>As for the SSAT I got an 92 and later a 94. I did not study at all and I actually fell asleep. I was very pleased overall, my parents were unhappy because “I could have done so much better”. Oh well. :)</p>
<p>i was really happy i thought i was gonna get a 93 and i got a 97 :)</p>
<p>i didn’t do well. </p>
<p>reading comprehension was terrible. i think i mis-bubbled somewhere because i thought i did pretty well on that… hmm.
verbal was 83 (i was relieved, i thought that would be SO much worse) and math was 89 (i was okay with that but my mom screamed at me. mom doesn’t scream at the 53 on reading, but instead, the 89 on math?! hmm)</p>
<p>80 overall. my goal for next year is 85+! 
& nothing severely lacking. not like, 99, 99, and 10. >_></p>
<p>DiveAlive I do not know why your mom did not scream at the reading but did at the math. There is some merit, or “urban merit”, to that. Unfortunately in today’s world among the last few generations academia has been represented by mathematical equations and other concepts regarding math. </p>
<p>People may get the false feeling that doing well on math will get you farther in life, thus she weighs your math score higher. Around here people tend to do that… Little do they know that in twenty years one will probably need writing/reading skills more than the ability to do Multivariable Calculus or Apply trigonometric formulas.</p>
<p>It all really depends on what you do in your future. If you plan on living in a city, become a writer, or spokesperson, you wouldn’t really need to know how to do all that complicated math stuff we learn that we won’t even use.
But, if you’re going to become a rocket scientist, or live in the woods by yourself, etc, then math would come in handy :)</p>
<p>I didn’t know schools administered SSAT’s, but if those are private schools, then I understand. No wonder a lot of people did so well!</p>
<p>Even ignoring “sub top” jobs… Include writers, top businessmen, engineers, doctors, ibankers, etc. Most of those would not use math. I am sure post Trig math will be used in ~20% of jobs at most. </p>
<p>Of course statistics is important but that comes later along in the sequence.</p>
<p>I was very disappointed with my scores. My hope was to score 90-95, but I only got an 87%. I studied sooooo hard. I was working in my book about an hour a day. I studied nonstop during Christmas vacation. I hope that this is good enough to at least be in the running for HADES schools. I can imagine my Hotchkiss app being reviewed…</p>
<p>They will probably think that I’m good enough, but then they will come upon a similar application but with like a 99 SSAT. I can imagine them laughing and throwing my application into the trash. </p>
<p>The problem is that I don’t have that much natural intelligence. I am number 1 of 100+ students on my team, but only because I’m one of those over-achievers that work very very hard. Hopefully my straight A+s mean more than my stupid 87. </p>
<p>I took that SSAT twice though, and scored very differently in the individual categories. I heard from GemmaV that they combine sub-sections. So if they combine I’ll have…</p>
<p>Math: 86%
Reading: 83%
Verbal: 90%
Total: 90 or 91 maybe?</p>
<p>I guess I’ll just have to keep my fingers crossed. You guys did spectaculat though! Great jobs!</p>
<p>Low 90. Yes, low 90 meaning 92-94.</p>
<p>I was actually pretty surprised and unsatisfied at my scores (and no, not because I didn’t get a 99). Throughout all the practice tests I took I never scored even near exceptionally on my reading, usually excelling in verbal and math. I studied like crazy for the verbal, copying out all the vocab. words from Kaplan onto flash cards and testing myself on them at least twice a day. In the end I scored in the low 80’s for both sections, while my reading was in the 90’s…</p>
<p>I don’t have much of a reason to complain, I met my goal which was to get at least an 87%, but still, I would’ve felt much more satisfied with myself if I did better on my math and vocab and not as great in the reading…</p>
<p>Uh, old thread but I got a 55% with no studying and did the mistake of omitting a TON of answers. I’m probably not going to omit a lot of answers next time (parents said don’t apply since I started late), and try to do better. Though now I’m taking the upper test…how much harder is it?</p>