Exact score explanation

What a Rice Purity Test score of 98 means

98 = 100 − 2 checked

The short answer

A Rice Purity Test score of 98 means exactly 2 of the 100 items on the checklist were checked, leaving 98 unchecked. That works out to 2% of the checklist checked and 98% unchecked, because the checklist happens to hold exactly 100 items.

The result sits in the 0–2 checked band (almost nothing checked), which covers scores 98–100. The band is a navigation aid for this scale — it is not a percentile, a population comparison, or a statement about the person who took the test.

Score 98 at a glance

Score	98 out of 100
Items checked	2 items
Items left unchecked	98
Share of checklist checked	2%
Descriptive band	0–2 checked · Almost nothing checked
Scores sharing this band	98–100 (3 scores)
Formula	100 − 2 = 98

Score position

This scale shows the score itself, not a population distribution or percentile.

0 score · 100 checked100 score · 0 checked

Score

Items checked

0–2 checked

Descriptive band

Exact calculation: 100 − 2 = 98

Where 98 sits between the bands

Between 0 and 2 of the 100 items were checked, so the score stays within two points of the maximum. At this end of the scale a single extra check moves the score by a full point and can cross into the next band, which is why totals here are unusually sensitive to how you read an ambiguous item.

1 more checked item would lower the score to 97 and move it into the 3–6 checked band.
This is the highest band on the scale, so no score sits above it.

Why 98 cannot identify your answers

Choosing which 2 of 100 items to check can be done in 4,950 different ways, and every one of them totals 98. The score is a cardinality — a count — so it discards which items were selected the moment it is calculated.

For the same reason the total cannot show the context behind an answer, distinguish "no" from "preferred not to answer", or say anything definitive about a person's character, health, or safety.

How 2 checked items maps onto the checklist

The 100 items are grouped into five categories: Sexual (56), Social & Dating (15), Substances (14), Legal (11) and Academic (4). Those fixed sizes make some arithmetic statements about a total provable.

Minimum categories involved: One. 2 checked items fit inside the largest single category (Sexual, 56 items), so a score of 98 could in principle come from one category alone.

One possible distribution: 2 of the Academic items. That is an illustration of the arithmetic only — many other distributions give the identical total of 98, and this site never sees which items anyone checked.

Questions about a score of 98

What does a Rice Purity Test score of 98 mean?

A score of 98 means 2 of the 100 checklist items were checked and 98 were left unchecked. The score is the subtraction 98 = 100 − 2 checked, and nothing more is inferred from it.

How many questions did I answer yes to if I scored 98?

2 questions. Every checked item removes exactly one point from the starting total of 100, so the number of checked items is always 100 minus the score.

Is 98 a good Rice Purity Test score?

There is no good or bad score. 98 is a count of unchecked items on one particular 100-item checklist. This site does not publish a population average or percentile because it holds no documented representative dataset to support one.

Which questions produce a Rice Purity Test score of 98?

The score cannot identify them. There are 4,950 different ways to check 2 of the 100 items, and every one of them totals 98, so the number alone never reveals which items were selected.

What a Rice Purity Test score of 98 means

The short answer

Score 98 at a glance

Score position

Where 98 sits between the bands

Why 98 cannot identify your answers

How 2 checked items maps onto the checklist

Questions about a score of 98

How the score is calculated

Methodology and sources

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