Originally Posted by Bostonian
On the various sections, my son scored
9/10 math
6/10 English
5/10 reading
13/15 Science


I had my son take the EXPLORE through Belin Blank, and his scores were

24 Math
17 English
18 Reading
23 Science
21 Composite

The rank ordering is similar to that of the %correct on the sample questions. It's silly to do a regression with 4 observations, but I'll go ahead:

Explore_subtest_scaled_score = 0.17 * %correct_sample_questions + 8.42 + error

with both regression coefficients having t-stats exceeding 2. With this regression the predicted Explore scores would have been

23.6 Math
18.5 English
16.9 Reading
23.0 Science .
20.5 Composite


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