ISAT Scoring Guide

I want to know the scoring system of International Student Admissions Test (ISAT) exam so can you please tell me?

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The International Student Admissions Test (ISAT) is a three-hour multiple mandatory test for entry into specified courses in some Australian educational institutions to international students.

The test is produced by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

ISAT is specifically designed to rank a highly competitive and intelligent population of candidates

Scores

The scoring process is complex and requires substantial development and analysis by ACER's psychometricians.

Candidates cannot calculate their own scores.

The ISAT scaled scores are developed as a complex interaction between candidate abilities and test item difficulties

ISAT scores for Critical Reasoning (CR), Quantitative Reasoning (QR) and Overall are on scales with ranges of 100-200.

The use of scaled scores enables scores from the test in different years to be directly compared

Percentiles

To give meaning to the scaled scores, percentile ranks are also provided.

Percentiles (%ILE) show the percentage of candidates whose scores are lower than the one reported.

Example-

A student with an Overall score of 183 has a percentile rank of 81, meaning that their score is higher than that achieved by 81% of others taking the test.

The candidate is thus within the top 20% of the test-taking population.

Critical Reasoning Quantitative Reasoning Overall
SCORE %ILE SCORE %ILE SCORE %ILE
181 79 184 82 183 81