Students are notified of their scores in February and earn a “raw score” based on the number of questions they get right. There are no penalties for wrong answers, so students receive one raw point per correct answer - note that only 47 questions in each section are scored, with the other ten serving as experimental questions.
You will not be able to distinguish between these. This raw score is converted into a “scaled score” for each section of the test and a “composite score” for the entire test. The highest possible composite score is 700.
The cut-off scores for each school vary yearly, determined by the number of open places in each school and how the candidates score. Students are notified of their scores in February. Although the NYC Department of Education does not release official cutoff scores, the estimated cut-off / high scores during 2022 were:
i. Stuyvesant - 563 / 680
ii. Queens Science @ York College - 523 / 562
iii. Bronx Science - 524 / 638
iv. Staten Island Tech - 527 / 658
v. HSMSE @ CCNY - 532 / 628
vi. HSAS @ Lehman - 516 / 642
vii. Brooklyn Technical - 506 /635
viii. Brooklyn Latin - 497 / 568
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