SOL Score

[Anonymous]

Are the scores based on percentage or percentile? What is the equivalent range for pass vs pass advanced? Wondering how SOL Pass quizzes convert to the actual SOL scores. For example, is 80-89% pass and 90% + pass advanced?

[Anonymous]

Lol not even close. It’s scaled in a way that the first couple of questions missed are worth a lot but they count less and less. 50% is usually a 400 which is lowest pass. However, usually 87% is needed for advance. A score above 470 (80%) is pretty good for most students since it covers the entire year, especially if your teacher did little to review.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are the scores based on percentage or percentile? What is the equivalent range for pass vs pass advanced? Wondering how SOL Pass quizzes convert to the actual SOL scores. For example, is 80-89% pass and 90% + pass advanced?

There’s not really a correlation because the SOLs are adaptive. So they’ll get easier or harder questions passed on how there doing - and the point value between an easier and harder question are not the same.

[Anonymous]

They are not adaptive in high school

[Anonymous]

They're scaled scores and they're based on more than just a straight cut/dry percentage. The questions are rated high, medium, or low and broken into sections that are scaled individually. I have some kids who get the exact same number of questions correct and one scores a 390 and one scores a 395. Way back in the day before they started with the varying degree of difficulty questions, it used to be somewhere right around a 60% that would convert to a 400 (they used to have charts that clearly matched a percentage with an SOL score). So I'd say aim for a 60%. Anything 60% or higher would mean you're probably on track. In actuality you need something more like a 40% but since the state hasn't released SOLs in about ten years, you're working off questions that belonged to the old system so I'd stick with the old 60% cutoff.

[Anonymous]

I expected passing to be much more than 60%. I understand it’s more complicated than that. I’ll tell my kid not to stress. They’re getting above 90% on most of the SOL Pass quizzes with a few sections in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I expected passing to be much more than 60%. I understand it’s more complicated than that. I’ll tell my kid not to stress. They’re getting above 90% on most of the SOL Pass quizzes with a few sections in the 80s.

That’s great, remember that SOL pass has not been updated in 10 years and many of the standards have changed twice since that date.