<p>Best of luck everyone. I’ve got a couple of tutoring students taking it tomorrow, so I’m feeling anxious for them!</p>
<p>I just picked up my stack of PR flashcards for the first time (they included both sections)</p>
<p>I knew basically 75% of them. So now I just have have to get the next 25% in the next 14 hours lol</p>
<p>I’m heading to bed in like 2 hours because I slept late the day before, and I don’t want to be tired the day of. I learned all of the PR words, all of Peterson’s words, and a large chunk of the Kaplan words.</p>
<p>I really don’t feel like waking up at 6:30 on a saturday :(</p>
<p>No worries about the SSAT guys. I’m a 9th grader at Andover right now, and I got in the 60 percentile or something for math. My total was 80’s or something. The admissions people just need to make sure your academically admissible.</p>
<p>I was freaking out because i think i got in the 60s for both reading and verbal but i think i got like 90ish for math</p>
<p>Meh, I didn’t do that great either.
I think I got 1 or 2 wrong for Math, 3 blank and like 3 guesses for Verbal, and probably 2-3 wrong in reading. Thereby amounting to somewhere in the very low 2300s.</p>
<p>Im probably near the border of 2000 lol</p>
<p>Only three guesses in verbal CCer? I got something like 90-95% in verbal by guessing like 10 times and getting something like 6 wrong. I got around 5 wrong for reading. I think I had 80’s in reading. In math I got 10-15 wrong.</p>
<p>I am freaking out.</p>
<p>I SKIPPED 15 IN VERBAL.
Guessed on at least 5.
Skipped 5 in Reading. Guessed on almost 10.</p>
<p>But math wasn’t a problem for me. Full score is what I actually can hope for without having to lie to myself.</p>
<p>Essay was much better than usual. It’s not hard to improve on trash, though. What was everyone’s essay topics? Mine was “A bad attitude is a person’s greatest limitation.”</p>
<p>Are we allowed to post essay topics? now?</p>
<p>is it bad that I didnt skip any?</p>
<p>I guessed on all of the ones I didn’t know (random and with elimination)</p>
<p>basically 50% of verbal was guessing for me lol</p>
<p>we all have to post scores in like nov or whatever when they come out</p>
<p>Oops! Are we not supposed to post them? (the essay topics?)
Somebody report my post if I wasn’t supposed to do that.</p>
<p>2010 hopeful, I think that I should’ve guessed more. Agh, I’m so stupid! 
Too late now. It would’ve brought my score up a couple of points, because I could eliminate on most of the ones I skipped.
It’s good to guess as long as you eliminated.</p>
<p>Reading wasn’t that hard, but a lot of people at my test site said that they skipped a whole reading passage because it was really hard, so hopefully that screws the curve. Mehh, I guessed on like 4-5 and left 3 or so blank. But, I know that I got 2 or 3 out of 5 right (checked in dict.), and I think thats in the high 780s or low 790s. Math, I think I got 1 or 2 wrong so basically same as Verbal score. Reading was sort of hard though, and plus 1 wrong is already like 20 points off, so I got somewhere in the low 700s :(. I’m sort of dissapointed though, cause I was expecting more (2360+), but I think low 2300s is still pretty good. Oh well, I hope I get lucky because, chances are, I’ll retake in December.</p>
<p>Also, I think the scores come out Oct. 31st, meaning that they’ll come anytime from Oct. 31st to Nov. 3rd</p>
<p>Last year, my son got his scores via email a week from the Monday following the test. It was super fast. But that would only be if you purchased the web bundle.</p>
<p>Also, he said that he skipped 2 maths, 3 readings and 4 verbals that he didn’t know. I guess that’s what he gets for not preparing. If he has to take it again, I think HE should pay for it!</p>
<p>Neatoburrito, what did your son score? JW, because I am in a similar case as your son. And that is really good of a score, especially if he didn’t prepare at all, because I prepared for a good chunk of time.</p>
<p>He took the test today, so he doesn’t have those scores yet (duh 
). But last year he took the lower level as a seventh grader, so he had experience with the test. He was in the high 90’s overall. I don’t remember the exact score or what his omit/wrong tally was. His math was lowest. I do remember that the curve for math and reading was brutal. But he was in the oldest group taking the test. He did have a “perfect” verbal score even though he got something like 4 wrong. The highest score on the lower level is a 710 and that’s what he got. So, I imagine that there is a little wiggle room on the verbal section, or at least more than on the other two sections.</p>
<p>Don’t sweat it right now though. You’ll find out how you did soon enough. Concentrate on your school work and your apps for now. </p>
<p>A high ssat score may be nice, but I doubt it does more than just affirm your grades. And if you look closely at the difference between a 99 and an 89, it can sometimes be as little a 3 questions. If I had to guess, I’d say that the essay is probably the part they look at the closest. But what do I know?</p>
<p>Personally, I think the SSAT matters a lot because everything else is unreliable except for the interview
Grades can be hyped due to quality of school and grade inflation.
Recs can be hyped due to teachers wanting you to succeed.
Essays can be hyped if someone gets their parents to write them.
SSAT scores can’t be hyped.
SSAT essays can’t be hyped and time you.</p>
<p>I had a really hard essay topic, but I won’t post it. I doubt if my argument was excellent, but it was well-structured and fairly well written, I think. I didn’t skip any on reading comp, though I did skip one on analogies and five on math. Is that five going to kill me? I really just want to be in the nineties for math, I don’t care where. Do you think that’s possible?</p>
<p>Wicked, 5 wrong for math is like a 760 or 770. Reading comp was a little hard but I didn’t skip any. Vocab, I screwed up big time, I guessed on 4, and I got 2/4 of my guesses wrong. And I left like 2-3 blank. Math, really wasn’t hard, there’s only 1 question I’m not entirely sure about. So basically, in like 2 weeks I except to get these scores.
Verbal:770-800
Reading-722-770
Math-782-800
Comp-2300-2370</p>