<p>Our school got them this morning, so they should be posted soon. I have no clue if it is SOP to release to the schools first, but for some reason they have them and have already shared them with the students who took the test (our school is listed as a recipient on the tests).</p>
<p>My child’s SSAT scores are up!</p>
<p>They’re up.</p>
<p>Scores are up.</p>
<p>Happy with the results… Not sure if we should try to take it again to improve them?? Average of 94…Thoughts???</p>
<p>I think that is great. We made much lower. Disappointed but again I view as one test on one day.</p>
<p>@funaviator - Our child also got in the low/mid 90’s. We are perfectly fine with that and see no reason to take it again. Even if we were applying to Hotchkiss or Andover, it is such a small difference as to be negligible. I would rather my child focus on having more time to focus more on her current 8th grade milieu than try to eke out a few more points that really will not alter the balance of anything. I truly believe an AO looking at a 92 will not give it any less weight than a 95. (or 94 vs 97).</p>
<p>nadk01 is spot on.</p>
<p>Now we have SSAT score, can you guide me how to send the score to the schools? I listed the score recipients, but not sure what is the next step. When I click ‘continue’, it says ‘no service selected’ …</p>
<p>@nadk01: I think that’s a very healthy POV. I see many kids chasing the last -ile here and it seems sort of silly/waste of time to me.</p>
<p>There have been plenty of parents who’ve been told “We could fill our entire class with 99%-ile kids” or “we reject dozens of 99%-ile kids every year”. The message being, don’t stress about it if you are above the average for the schools to which you are applying. </p>
<p>A reminder that A) I was told point blank by 2 CHASED AOs that “anything from the mid 80s and up and the scores won’t be the reason a kid is rejected” and B) my older daughter was a 99%-iler and got rejected at Choate three cycles ago.</p>
<p>You need to list the code number for the schools you want the scores sent to.</p>
<p>Correction to post #30 .re-read my recap thread this AM and the AOs mentioned “upper 80s and up” as their threshold for scores saying that above that and scores “would not be the reason they do not get in”. Also, this was at 2 of the ULTRA selective schools. </p>
<p>Note that this is not the same as saying kids below a certain threshold can’t get in .I hope no-one interprets it this way.</p>
<p>Does the SSAT include the September test results in its 3 yr performance track against the november test? Guessing they do b/c daughter’s raw verbal raw score increased by 5 points (primarily b/c of less incorrect answers and more “skips”) but her percentile rank dropped by 2 points from september. 8th grade girls must have scored really well on the September verbal section!</p>
<p>scratch previous post…didn’t realize SSAT changes the scoring structure for each test b/c they can’t ask the identical questions each time. They have to adjust each section’s difficulity based on question make up. So my daughter’s raw score in verbal increased by 5 points but her percentile rank dropped by 2 percentage points…On reading she also increased her raw score by 5 points, but her percentile rank increased by 10 percentage points…I’m not smart enough to understand statistics and probability, but this is wacky in my opinion.</p>
<p>Raw to scaled scores vary on each test, according to predetermined difficulty. A raw score of 49 on one section will convert to a higher scaled score on a harder test than on an easier one. This is why it shouldn’t matter if say, the October test is harder than the November one. The scaled score will account for it by letting a student miss more questions on the harder test to get the same scaled score as on the easier one. It’s best to ignore the raw score and look at the scaled score. </p>
<p>Again, one raw score does not always give the same scaled score.</p>
<p>Percentiles remain relatively stable and are based on the scaled score only.</p>
<p>I might add, as there seems to be confusion on this point, that the overall percentile is NOT an average of the three. It is based on the sum of the scaled scores and how many kids got that sum. So a kid could have 800/700/700 with a total of 2200 which would likely be upper 90s total percentile, but something like 99/72/80 section percentiles. A different could could be incapable of doing math and get 800/500/800 and still have upper 90s overall percentile (because the sum is still 2200) with a section breakdown of 99/23/99. I hope this helps.</p>
<p>@neato: in your last sentence, I’m sure you meant to have a math score of 600 so that the composite totals 2200. Additionally, the math percentile in your example would be appropriately higher.</p>
<p>oh yeah…right! ooops</p>
<p>Climbski113, I did listed the school SSAT code number, and then there is no ‘submit’ button. So I was asking what would be the next step.</p>
<p>twinzy, I also thought that was a problem, but the scores go through without another step. I have had a lot of problems with that web site. Do you have twins?</p>
<p>How do you know that the scores go through? I didn’t get any type of notification, did you?</p>