PCAT scoring?

[Ephraim]

Someone please help me out! I'm a bit concerned. So I just took the PCAT and for one subsection I got a SS of 427 which is an 87% and another subsection I got a SS of 425 which is an 84%. But my composite was a SS of 426 which is 92%. I'm confused. Should my composite score be between 84 and 87%? I really don't want to get overly excited when maybe there was a mistake?

 

[Marfie]

There are 3 other sections you haven't mentioned, so I guess you scored higher on those? From what I understand, the SS composite is just the average of your five subsections, then the SS composite is given a percentile rank relative to the norm group.

 

[Ephraim]

There are 3 other sections you haven't mentioned, so I guess you scored higher on those? From what I understand, the SS composite is just the average of your five subsections, then the SS composite is given a percentile rank relative to the norm group.

Ahh I see. So basically we have to look at the subsection SS individually then, right? In essence, just because a SS for a certain subsection has a certain percentage doesn't mean that a different subsection with an identical SS should have the same percentage?

 

[Marfie]

Ahh I see. So basically we have to look at the subsection SS individually then, right? In essence, just because a SS for a certain subsection has a certain percentage doesn't mean that a different subsection with an identical SS should have the same percentage?

Correct. If you have two SS that are the exact same such as a 430, the subsection percentiles may not be the same.

 

[Ephraim]

Correct. If you have two SS that are the exact same such as a 430, the subsection percentiles may not be the same.

Thanks you so much for the reply Marfie! 🙂