OK so basically I took the DAT on 7/24 and got a AA of 23 (99.7%) and this week I've been checking out the 21+ DAT scores on the thread cuz I have tons of time to kill at work. Out of the six different 24 AA's posted, somehow I have a higher percentile than 5 of them (they are 99.4, 99.4, 99.6, 99.6, 99.9, and 99.4%). Does this make sense? I know there are different tests and everything, but how can a higher percentile get a lower AA?
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The percentages show how well you performed against others on your test. Your standardized scores show how many questions you got correct. So if someone has a higher AA that means they got more questions correct than you. However with a lower percentage it also means that other people taking their test also got more correct. The lower percentage is usually indicative of an easier test because of more people scoring higher.
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Same thing happened to me, 23 with a 99.7 percentile. It sucks because we see people with some gaudy number with a lower percentile. To be simple, we get screwed because we got a harder test
gotcha. I thought the scaled scores somehow reflected the difficulty of the test, for example some people can get all their questions right in bio and get a 30 and some get a 29. Either way it makes more sense now, thanks.
