Rice Purity Test score 21: Veteran

Is 21 a good score?

There is no good or bad Rice Purity Test score. 21 means 79 of the 100 items were checked and 21 were left unchecked: the test opens at 100 and removes a point for each item you have done, so the number counts situations you have been in, not merit. Two people on 21 can have checked completely different items.

Most of the list applied; what is left is the specific and the rare.

At this end the unchecked statements are the particular ones: a particular substance, a particular arrest, a particular situation that simply has not come up.

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What checking 79 boxes actually covers

Scoring 21 means 79 of the 100 questions were answered yes. The list escalates as it goes, so a 21 usually covers all of romance & dating, parties & nightlife, online & modern life, alcohol & drugs, rule-breaking & mischief and law & consequences, with sexual experience partly checked.

Where 79 checks reach on the classic list

77.Had sexual intercourse in a bed not belonging to you or your partner?
78.Had sexual intercourse while you or your partner's parents were in the same home?
79.Had sexual intercourse with non-participating third party in the same room?

80.Joined the mile high club? — the first item a 21 leaves unchecked.

Question order is fixed, so this is where the count lands, not a guess about you.

A 21 sits 29 points below the halfway mark of the scale, so more of the questionnaire is checked than not.

What a 21 rules out

21 is an odd number, and four of the seven lists on this site hold 50 questions worth two points each — they can only land on even totals. So a 21 cannot have come from the Teen Purity Test, Couples Purity Test, College Purity Test, LGBTQ Purity Test. It is reachable on Rice Purity Test (79 ticks), Innocence Test (79 ticks) and AO3 Purity Test (79 ticks).

At 79 checks there is no block of the questionnaire left untouched: the count has reached every section, from the opening romance questions to the last items on the sheet. That is what separates the bottom of the scale from the rest of it — not intensity, but coverage.

On the band chart, 21 sits 11 points into Veteran (10–24). 12 more checks move it down to 9 and into Off the Charts. One fewer would have been 22, and 25 is where Wild Card begins.

Which parts of the list 79 checks can come from

Only 40 of the 100 statements sit outside the sexual block, so 79 checks means at least 39 of them are sexual items — that part is arithmetic, not inference. Each block below links to its opening question, and every statement has its own page.

All 100 questions in order · What each range forces

One point either way

One box more checked20Veteran One box fewer checked22Veteran

Is 21 a bad Rice Purity Test score?

No, and not because 21 is a comfortable number — because “bad” is not something this scale measures. It counts how many of 100 statements you have done, one point each, with the heaviest item on the sheet worth exactly what holding hands is worth. 21 means 79 statements applied to you and 21 did not. That is the entire claim it makes.

What it cannot tell you is which 79. Two people on 21 can have ticked entirely different statements — the score is a count, so it holds the number and drops the rest. If you are comparing yourself to someone, the comparison is only meaningful against a score from the same 100-statement list, and even then it compares two counts, not two lives.

How far 21 sits from the edges of Veteran

Above the floor11Veteran starts at 10

Below the ceiling3Veteran ends at 24

Ticks to leave it12and Off the Charts begins

Only one of those three numbers can ever change. The list is past tense, so a checked statement stays checked and a retake can move the score down and never up — Wild Card, which starts at 25, is behind you for good. Ticking 12 more of the 100 statements would put you at 9, the top of Off the Charts.

21 against the full scale

9 bands cover 0 to 100. These are the Veteran row that holds 21 and what sits either side of it — the full chart is on the score page.

The score band this number falls into, with the band above and below it.
Score	Band	What the number describes	Detail page
25–39	Wild Card	Three fifths to three quarters of the list applied.Getting this far needs checks in every block — romance, sex, substances, and some of the risk and law-breaking questions. No single section of the list can carry a score this low on its own.	Score 32 — Wild Card example page
10–24 — the band your score falls in	Veteran	Most of the list applied; what is left is the specific and the rare.At this end the unchecked statements are the particular ones: a particular substance, a particular arrest, a particular situation that simply has not come up.	Score 17 — Veteran example page
0–9	Off the Charts	Nearly everything on the list applied — the floor of the test.A single-digit score means answering yes to almost every statement the list contains, including the arrest, hard-drug and high-risk items.	Score 5 — Off the Charts example page

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What does a Rice Purity Test score of 21 mean?

21 falls in the Veteran band. Scoring 21 means 79 of the 100 questions were answered yes. The list escalates as it goes, so a 21 usually covers all of romance & dating, parties & nightlife, online & modern life, alcohol & drugs, rule-breaking & mischief and law & consequences, with sexual experience partly checked.

Is 21 a bad Rice Purity Test score?

No — "bad" is not a property the scale has. 21 means 79 of the 100 statements applied to you and 21 did not, at one point each, with no statement weighted above another. It is a count of experiences on one particular list, not a rating of them, and it cannot say which 79 you ticked.

How many more questions would move a 21 out of the Veteran band?

12. Veteran runs from 10 to 24, so ticking 12 more of the 100 statements takes the score to 9, the top of Off the Charts. It cannot move the other way: the statements are past tense, so a checked one stays checked.

How many questions does a score of 21 mean you checked?

79. Each of the 100 statements is worth one point, so the score is 100 minus the number of boxes ticked.

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