Step-by-Step
Turning Your Raw Practice Test Score into an Approximate SSAT Scaled Score
Part 1
How to Compute Your Raw Score on an SSAT Practice Test
1. Choose a Full Test or Section Test you’d like to score.
2. Click “See Answers” and look at your answer for each test question. Next, give yourself a ✓ in the “C” column for each correct answer, a 0 for each wrong answer in the “W” column, and a — for each question omitted in the “O” column.
3. Add the total number of correct answers and enter the number in the “Total # Correct” box; add the number of 0s and enter it in the “Total # Wrong” box.
- It is not necessary to add the number of omits. You can use that information to go back and review those questions and to make sure that you understand all the answers.
4. Raw scores are calculated by using the following system:
- One point is given for each correct answer.
- No points are added or subtracted for questions omitted.
- One-fourth of a point is subtracted for each incorrect answer.
5. Divide the number of wrong answers in the “Total # Wrong” box by 4 and enter the number in the “# Wrong ÷ 4” box.
- For example, if you had 32 right and 19 wrong, then your raw score is 32 minus one-fourth of 19, which equals 27¼. (32 − 4¾ = 27 ¼).
6. Round the result in box 3 to the nearest whole integer. Put the integer in Box 4 — for example, round 27¼ to 27.
7. The integer in Box 4 is the raw score on the section.
8. Repeat this procedure for each simulated test section that you have taken.
Part 2
Equate Your Raw Scores from Part 1 to an Estimated SSAT Scaled Score
Raw scores are calculated by awarding one point for each correct answer and subtracting one-quarter of one point for each incorrect answer. Raw scores can vary from one edition of the test to another due to differences in difficulty among editions. Score equating is used to adjust for these differences. Even after these adjustments, no single test score provides a perfectly accurate estimate of your proficiency.
Because the Official Study Guide for the Upper Level SSAT contains practice tests and not “retired” forms of the test, there are no norm-group data associated with these forms, and calculations of exact scaled scores or specific percentile rankings are not possible. But the following chart will give you an estimate of where your scaled scores might fall within each of the three scored sections: verbal, quantitative/math, and reading.
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Although you can’t know your exact SSAT score in advance, you can use this process to estimate what your score might be.
