I have looked on the SSAT site and googled it but not been able to find the answer to this question.
Can you superscore any active scores, or do they only superscore scores from the same academic year? I seem to recall the latter but then what significance does the word “active” have?
SSAT scores are most often discussed in percentile terms. How does one calculate a percentile superscore themselves to decide if you think it is worth submitting two tests? The Overall scores is not simply a weighted average of the components, so it is not immediately obvious to me.
As far as I understand the schools can choose to superscore but SSAT just reports each administration as is. And new this year you can submit SSAT scores from last year (if the school will accept them).
When schools say they superscore, I don’t think they look at the composite. They will look at the three sub percentiles and record the higher percentiles of each section - reading, verbal and quantitative.
That makes sense Payn4ward; why would they aggregate them? It contains less information aggregated. They aggregate only to report them, not to use them I’d imagine.
MA, Interesting to know that it is new for them to include scores from last spring. Thanks.
So I guess the open question is over what period do superscoring schools superscore.
Many schools ask for the SSAT test scores from the current school year only. So the tests considered would be October, November, December, January tests for M10 decision. Some schools take the February score.
For the schools that say they would take the last year’s scores would mean October-June tests of the year before. Those would still have to be Upper Level tests.
I recommend taking the Upper Level test in June for 7th graders for practice purposes. That would give the students the summer to work on weaknesses and allow them to be done with SSAT in October or November of 8th grade rather than students having the first official score in October and trying to improve it by December.
If the June test scores are good enough most schools would accept them.