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What is a raw score, and what does it mean?

A raw score represents the number of points a student received for correctly answering questions on a test or for a content area. Because tests may assign different points to questions and have a different total number of questions, the raw score is only useful in relation to that test or content area. For example, consider a student who receives a raw score of 59 on Math and a raw score of 43 on Reading. To put these scores in perspective, there were 75 total items on the Math test and 50 total items on the Reading test. In simple terms, this can mean the respective percent correct would be 79% for the Math test and 86% for the Reading test.

Typically, a raw score has meaning only when compared with corresponding scores of a group of students (e.g., a class, school, or age group) or when applied against an accepted criterion or cutoff score.