<p>Is this the info you are looking for p43531?</p>
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<p>source: [The</a> Admission Organization: How We Can Help » Assess Applicant Aptitude](<a href=“http://www.admission.org/how-we-can-help/assess-applicant-aptitude/index.aspx]The”>http://www.admission.org/how-we-can-help/assess-applicant-aptitude/index.aspx)</p>
<p>one student, two times
one student, one time
one student, one time</p>
<p>Neatburro, hearty thanks, you made me roar with laughter!</p>
<p>So, NOW we know. Kids “typically” “sit for” 1.x tests. “Or more times”? 25% of 60,000 take it twice? Is that 15,000 extra tests? (Well, 118 Top Schools’ graduating classes total 12,844 on [Matriculation</a> Stats](<a href=“http://matriculationstats.org%5DMatriculation”>http://matriculationstats.org)). Or, perhaps there are 48,000 test-takers, 12,000 of whom take the test >1? And is the 2.5% who take it >2 included in these numbers? “Or more times” is 3, 4 or 6 or what?</p>
<p>Whatever.</p>
<p>(Others may also ask about (A) in what time frame, (B) are there school tier-related test frequencies, and (3) are test# per test-takers by zip code available? Perhaps open disclosure of tabulated data would better persuade that the constant disclaimers and modifiers are accidental.)</p>
<p>A funny line here referred to other “less sophisticated admission tests.” Why can’t the “Admission Organization” (staffed by whom, Organization Men?) take the high road and (since they use PC double-talk anyway) be more gracious towards the poor folks at ISEE, TACHS, HSPT, COOP and MSFT?</p>
<p>Overall, it seems quite likely, though so far unconfirmed, that some 60,000 “sit [for] {“for” is redundant in Br.Eng} the SSAT examination”, of who[m] some 15,000 may take the test twice. “Or more times.”</p>
<p>I must stop before I burst out laughing any…more times.</p>
<p>On a related note:
[If</a> a student takes the required tests more than once, which results does Harvard consider?](<a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/faq.html#13]If”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/apply/faq.html#13)</p>
<p>Diminishing returns or not, once≠twice. It’s only 50%. Enormous difference in the test-taking pool.</p>
<p>SevenDad, once this thread reaches a few hundred responses, it may make sense to tabulate how many times. Until that time in the distant future, thanks everyone for continuing to provide candid data.</p>
<p>I took it once</p>
<p>i took it once…</p>
<p>took it once, got a 99 percentile</p>
<p>My daughter—took once</p>
<p>One child - 1 test. We were in a quandry about taking 2nd time, but decided not to. One school told us they have access to electronic database and can find out what dates test was taken but only see the grades student selects to send. So if you take 3 times and send the first set of grades they know your scores went down. Our sense from AO was more weight was given to one time test takers than multiple ones even if scores were slightly lower. He said they also expect Dec & Jan scores to be higher given the multiple takers and more time to prep.</p>
<p>In “pre-prep” world its a given that a student will take the test twice. For some, a third time is necessary</p>
<p>@mhmm, Don’t kids in pre-preps also take it in earlier grades just to get used to it?</p>
<p>2 times . I pushed it from 63% to 88% :)</p>
<p>Twice in two years. From 70’s to 90’s. Low and high.</p>
<p>neato - many schools administer the yearly CTP which for years my children translated as the “child torture papers”, so unfortunately I cant remember what it actually stands for, and that test measures standards within a school population within the class, population of schools, region, etc. Most schools that end in 8/9th grade do administer the actual ssat in the school on the date most kids take the ssat. I cant for the life of me remember if a practice ssat was administered in 6th grade. I kind of think it may have been, but neither parents nor kids were given the scores.</p>
<p>@Neato - At my sons’ school, 7th graders are automatically scheduled for the test in January, 8th graders in December, and 9th graders in November and December. There is an optional (meaning you pay extra for it) review class each fall, but they never used it.</p>
<p>@neato: Like CKSABS, in our school all 8th graders are given SSAT in October (the ed consultant/“flex” version, I think). I was not aware of this when I signed my D up for the nationally administered Oct test scheduled for the preceding week.</p>