reading comprehension conversion to standard score

[PleasePassDAT]

need some help...
I have the raw score conversion table, but I don't understand how the RCT scores convert to standard scores. If there are a total of 50 questions on this section how come the table only shows 17 as the most you can get correct?? I'm very confused😕. Can anybody please explain??
Let me know if I need be more specific.
Thanks

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[whawha]

need some help...
I have the raw score conversion table, but I don't understand how the RCT scores convert to standard scores. If there are a total of 50 questions on this section how come the table only shows 17 as the most you can get correct?? I'm very confused😕. Can anybody please explain??
Let me know if I need be more specific.
Thanks

I thought that was for one passage...?

 

[PleasePassDAT]

ok...so you get a score for each of the three passages then average them together??

 

[SuperTank]

No, I believe some practice books only use 17 questions on the RC section. One passage. On the actual DAT there are three passages, and your score is based on the total number correct of the 50 questions from the three passages, not an average of the scores from each individual passage.

 

[PleasePassDAT]

ok...well then how do I figure out how to convert my raw score out of 50 into a standard DAT score if the chart only goes up to 17 questions?😕😕😕

 

[276640]

What I would do is see what percentage you got out of 50 and then find what that correlates to out of 17. For example, if you got 34 out of 50 you would have gotten 68% correct. 68% of 17 is roughly 11.56 (multiplying 17 by .68). You can then use that value to compare to your conversion charts. It won't be 100% accurate but neither are the scales you look at either (they are just approximations). Hope this helps.

 

[PleasePassDAT]

Thanks PiKapp 👍. I should have thought of that