2007-12-27 07:11:44 · 0 answers · asked by Amy Crackhouse 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Standards & Testing
Percentiles are used to compare your score to the scores of everyone else who took the SAT on that day. For example, if you scored in the 90th percentile on, say, Critical Reading, that means you scored better than approximately 90 percent of your fellow test-takers on the CR section. Inversely, about 10 percent of test takers would have scored better than you.
Percentles work by dividing up the scores of test-takers into 99 groups (percentiles). The 99th percentile is the highest; there is no such thing as a 100th percentile. Even if you scored a perfect 800 on a section, that still puts you in the top 1% of test-takers.
Hopefully that last part's not too confusing.
2007-12-27 08:10:47 · answer #1 · answered by eureka_C 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sat Percentiles
2016-10-04 05:36:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Percentile always "above that percentage of the whole." So your SAT score indicates what percentage of those who took the test scored worse than you did.
2007-12-27 08:45:05 · answer #3 · answered by aida 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋