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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle Level exam this fall DD scored 95 overall, 89 verbal, 90 math, 97 reading comp. Last year on Elementary Level  she did 98 overalll, 98 verbal, 99 math, 75 reading comp.

No idea how to answer your questions but I think DD did very well. However, she did not get any acceptances. So, scores aren't everything. [/quote]

These are not scores, these are the percentiles, compared to the averages of children the same grade and gender who took the test over the last three years. The scoring itself is not all that transparent. There is a raw score, which translates to a scaled score with a a possible overall range of 440-710. You will be provided your child's scaled score for the total and for each sub-test and what percentile each is in compared to the average score and within the scaled score range. Since I never took any of the webinars, I do not know how the raw score (for instance, how many correct, how many wrong, how many answered out of the 50 total quantitative questions) translates to the scaled scored. I believe each kind of questions gets a certain number of points.

What does matter, in the end, is the total score and the percentile that puts your child in. Which is why there is confusion on this board with people thinking that their percentile is their score--it's neither a score, nor a percentage.[/quote]

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