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Does anyone know, based on past years or other experience, a ballpark estimate of how the raw score of an academic center admissions test compares to the percentile?
More specifically, I’m trying to get an idea of what percent correct my daughter should be getting on a CogAT practice test to have a chance at making the Tier 3 Academic Center cutoff for Whitney Young.
I know there are a lot of variables at play, but right now I have absolutely no clue if Whitney Young is even an option for her. We are on the far south side and I am very confident she will at least get an offer from her second choice school, Brooks. She has all A’s on her report card.
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Looks like this website has a point calculator based on your tier. Not sure how accurate it is and looks like it just show the minimal points required to be considered.
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Let’s say you want to get into Lane and live in Tier 4. Last year, a straight-A student would need a minimum score of 141. Based on the info I could find online, for CogAT that score that’s being reported by CPS and used in selections is the SAS. If they’re using OLSAT, it’s SAI. 2.27% of test takers score above 132 on the OLSAT, so you’d probably need 99th percentile in this case. For CogAT, best info I can find suggests that an SAS in the 99th percentile starts in the 130s somewhere, so you’d need a percentile score in the 99th percentile there too. The percentile score your child needs depends on which program you’re aiming for and what tier you’re in, though.
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The score you mentioned 141 if you are in Tier 4 is 141 from what? How much is the total questions? I think you mean to answer 141 questions correct? or I understand wrong?
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The 141 is a scale score. It’s not a percentage, and it’s not the total number correct out of a particular number of questions. It’s more like an IQ score, where a score of 100 represents the 50th percentile.
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Well it is 141 from what still? is it from 150? How can I find more about this? If my son left 1 question not answered because time was out. Should he be nervous? He is all A in 5th grade and we live in tier 2 area?
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It depends on what test they’re using. If it’s the CogAT, the maximum score is 160. If it’s the OLSAT, the maximum score is 150.
These were the minimum Tier 2 scores for straight-A students last year:
Brooks: 63
Kenwood: 72
Lane: 124
Lindblom: 61
Morgan Park: N/A
Taft: 93
Young: 129
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Ty for replying. I guess I am too nervous. I saw those scores from the link shared up. I am trying to feel if he can pass the test .. He did all he can and studied hard etc.
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I thought they are not supposed to study for the academic center test? What did he even study?
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Thank you so much for sharing! I had been assuming that the kids in the 99 percentile were basically getting 100% on the test, so it’s good to know that’s not the case. Even if we assumed a cogAT score of 140/160, that’s much more attainable than 160/160 😅.
I recall a post on this forum stating that there were kids with a perfect 900 score who didn’t get accepted to Payton HS last year. I was confused how they could tie-break in these situations, but it makes more sense to realize one “99 percentile” child may have had a raw score of 95% while another “99 percentile” child had a raw score of 88%…
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Tie breakers for the 900 point students are based on the percentile scores of the 4 test components but still not the raw scores. We will never know the raw scores.
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But what if the tiebreaker is between two (or more) kids who got 900’s and got 99 percentile on every single one of the sections? I mean they aren’t going to just flip a coin right?
What I mean is maybe we will never see the raw scores ourselves, but they can see them for the purposes of tiebreaking.
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<p style=”text-align: left;”>They do essentially flip a coin in that case. Per CPSgo, in a case of a tie after the tiebreakers, it’s a lottery based on chance.</p>
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Wow, considering the wide range of scores that are “99 percentile” this doesn’t seem fair. If only CPS could provide a high quality education for all our children, not just a lucky few… At our neighborhood school (where my kids are enrolled), only 14% of children meet proficiency standards for math. 😔
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