SSAT Score Calculator
This SSAT score calculator checks the total on your score report by adding your Verbal, Quantitative and Reading scaled scores; it can't convert right answers.
Upper Level (grades 8–11): Verbal 800, Quantitative 755, Reading 800 → total 2355
2355
Total = Verbal + Quantitative + Reading. Upper Level scale: 1500–2400.
Source: E3nLast verified Oct 19, 2026
| Score | Yours |
|---|---|
| Total | 2355 |
| Verbal | 800 |
| Quantitative | 755 |
| Reading | 800 |
Show the math
| Total | 800 + 755 + 800 = 2355 |
|---|---|
SSAT at a glance
- Total score range
- 1500–2400 at the Upper Level (Middle 1320–2130, Elementary 900–1800)
- Sections and score ranges
- Verbal, Quantitative and Reading: 500–800 each at the Upper Level, 440–710 at the Middle Level, 300–600 at the Elementary Level
- How the total is made
- Sum of the Verbal, Quantitative and Reading scaled scores
- Testing time
- 170 minutes at the Middle and Upper Levels, including the unscored writing sample and experimental section (3 hours 10 minutes with breaks)
Source: E3n
What the SSAT score report shows
For the total and for each of Verbal, Quantitative and Reading, the report gives your scaled score, your percentile and the average score for your grade. Each section also shows a range you would likely score within if you retested soon, and how many questions you got right, got wrong or left unanswered.
Source: E3n
Good to know
- Official percentile table published: No public table: each percentile appears only on the score report. Of the 9 tests on this site, only SSAT, ISEE and SHSAT say no.
- What the percentile counts: Scores at or below yours, the same as ACT, ASVAB, ISEE, MCAT and SAT.
- Guessing costs points on the Middle and Upper SSAT but not on the Elementary SSAT. A wrong answer takes off a quarter point, so four wrong answers cancel one right one: skip a question unless you can rule out some choices. On the Elementary test, answer everything.
- Your SSAT percentile depends on the grade entered at registration. You're compared with first-time test takers in that grade over the last three years, so entering the wrong grade shifts every percentile.
Common questions
How is the SSAT total score calculated?
Add your Verbal, Quantitative and Reading scaled scores. E3n's sample Upper Level report shows 800 + 755 + 800 = 2355.
Is there a penalty for guessing on the SSAT?
At the Middle and Upper Levels, yes: a quarter point comes off for each wrong answer, and a skipped question costs nothing. The Elementary Level has no penalty for wrong answers.
How do you work out an SSAT raw score?
At the Middle and Upper Levels: one point per right answer, minus a quarter point per wrong answer, rounded to the nearest whole number. E3n's example: 32 right and 19 wrong gives 27¼, which rounds to 27.
Does the SSAT superscore?
No. E3n reports each sitting as a whole and doesn't combine your best section scores from different test dates.
Does an SSAT scaled score mean the same from year to year?
Yes. E3n says a scaled score today means the same as it did 15 years ago, and it equates every test form so scores stay comparable from one form to the next.
Source for these answers: E3n
More details
| What | Value |
|---|---|
| Scored sections | 3 (Verbal, Quantitative, Reading) |
| Questions on the required sections | 166 at the Upper Level: 150 scored (60 Verbal, 50 Quantitative, 40 Reading) plus 16 in the unscored experimental section |
| Questions at the Middle Level | 166, the same counts as the Upper Level: 150 scored plus 16 in the unscored experimental section |
| Unscored sections | 2 at the Middle and Upper Levels (writing sample and experimental section) |
| Penalty for wrong answers | Yes (Middle and Upper Levels: a quarter point off per wrong answer) |
| Penalty for wrong answers at the Elementary Level | No |
| Raw score rule | 1 point per right answer, minus ¼ point per wrong answer, 0 for a skipped question, rounded to the nearest whole number (Middle and Upper Levels) |
| Official percentile table published | No public table: each percentile appears only on the score report |
| Official raw-to-scale table for the live test | No: E3n equates each test form |
| Percentile table used | None published: percentiles compare first-time test takers in the same grade over the last three years (US and Canada) |
| What the percentile counts | Scores at or below yours |
| What the score report shows | For the total and each section: the scaled score, the percentile and an average score; for each section, a likely range if you retest soon and your right, wrong and unanswered counts |
| Whose average the report shows | Test takers in the student's grade (E3n's sample Upper Level report shows the 9th-grade average) |
| Scaled scores over time | Equated so a scaled score keeps its meaning: E3n says one today means the same as it did 15 years ago |
| Best sections combined across test dates | No: every sitting is reported as a whole |
| Test level | Elementary for grades 3–4, Middle for 5–7, Upper for 8–11 (the grade entered at registration) |
| Published by | E3n, a non-profit formed through the merger of the Enrollment Management Association and the Educational Records Bureau (ERB) |
Source: E3n
Common values
Total = Verbal + Quantitative + Reading.
| Input | Result |
|---|---|
| Upper Level, 500 each | 1500 |
| Upper Level, 650 each | 1950 |
| Upper Level, 800 each | 2400 |
| Middle Level, 440 each | 1320 |
| Middle Level, 575 each | 1725 |
| Middle Level, 710 each | 2130 |
| Elementary Level, 300 each | 900 |
| Elementary Level, 450 each | 1350 |
| Elementary Level, 600 each | 1800 |
SSAT Middle Level scores compared with Upper and Elementary
Each level has its own scale for Verbal, Quantitative and Reading, and the total is the three added. Wrong answers cost a quarter point at the Middle and Upper Levels only.
| Level | Current grade | Each section | Total | Wrong answers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Level | 8–11 | 500–800 | 1500–2400 | Quarter point off each |
| Middle Level | 5–7 | 440–710 | 1320–2130 | Quarter point off each |
| Elementary Level | 3–4 | 300–600 | 900–1800 | No penalty |
Source: E3n
SSAT scoring, from right and wrong answers to the total
Your score report gives a scaled score for Verbal, Quantitative and Reading on your level's scale, and the total is the three added. At the Middle and Upper Levels a section's raw score is 1 point per right answer minus a quarter point per wrong answer; E3n then equates it to the scaled score, a step it does not publish.
Total = Verbal + Quantitative + Reading (scaled scores)
- Pick your level: Upper (grades 8–11), Middle (5–7) or Elementary (3–4).
- Enter the three scaled section scores printed on your score report.
- Add them, and check the sum against the total on the report (Upper 1500–2400, Middle 1320–2130, Elementary 900–1800).
- For reference, E3n's raw score is right answers minus a quarter point per wrong answer (Middle and Upper), but only E3n can turn it into a scaled score.
E3n's sample Upper Level score report
- Verbal 800, Quantitative 755, Reading 800
- Total: 800 + 755 + 800 = 2355
- E3n's raw-score example: 32 right and 19 wrong → 32 − 19 ÷ 4 = 27¼ → rounded to 27
A total of 2355 out of 2400, as printed on E3n's sample report.
Related: ISEE score calculator
What this doesn't account for
- Turning right and wrong answers into scaled scores: E3n equates each test form and doesn't publish the conversion.
- Percentiles: E3n doesn't publish its tables.
- The writing sample and experimental section, which are not scored.
Compared with similar tests
| Test | Total score range | Sections | How the total is made |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSAT | 1500–2400 at the Upper Level (Middle 1320–2130, Elementary 900–1800) | Verbal, Quantitative and Reading: 500–800 each at the Upper Level, 440–710 at the Middle Level, 300–600 at the Elementary Level | Sum of the Verbal, Quantitative and Reading scaled scores |
| ISEE score calculator | No total score (each section 760–940) | Verbal Reasoning 760–940, Quantitative Reasoning 760–940, Reading Comprehension 760–940, Mathematics Achievement 760–940; essay unscored | No total: each section is reported on its own |
| SHSAT score calculator | No fixed range: in past years the composite usually topped out around 700, but NYC says the actual maximum changes every year | English Language Arts and Mathematics, each a scaled score with no fixed range (in past years usually about 350 at most) | Sum of the ELA and Math scaled scores |
Sources
- SSAT Scoring & Release
- Sample Upper Level SSAT Score Report (PDF)
- Sample Middle Level SSAT Score Report (PDF)
- Sample Elementary SSAT Score Report (PDF)
- How should I interpret the SSAT score report?
- What's on the Upper Level SSAT?
- SSAT Candidate Handbook for Testing Year 2026–2027 (PDF)
- What Will My SSAT Score Be?
- What level of the SSAT will my student need to take?
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