Rice Purity Test score 88: Mostly Innocent

Is 88 a good score?

There is no good or bad Rice Purity Test score. 88 means 12 of the 100 items were checked and 88 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 88 can have checked completely different items.

Enough checked to cover dating and kissing, and little past it.

Under a sixth of the list applied. That is room for the romance block without reaching the questions about sex, drinking or anything with legal consequences.

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What checking 12 boxes actually covers

Scoring 88 means 12 of the 100 questions were answered yes. The list escalates as it goes, so those checks usually sit inside romance & dating and sexual experience and stop there.

Where 12 checks reach on the classic list

10.Kissed horizontally?
11.Given or received a hickey?
12.Kissed or been kissed on the breast?

13.Kissed someone below the belt? — the first item a 88 leaves unchecked.

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

A 88 sits 38 points above the halfway mark of the scale, so more of the questionnaire is still unchecked than checked.

What a 88 rules out

88 is reachable on all seven lists here, but it costs a different amount of life on each: 12 ticks on a hundred-item list like the Rice Purity Test, and 6 on a fifty-item one like the College Purity Test, where every tick costs two points. Same number, half the statements.

Because the order of the questions is fixed, 12 checks leaves 5 blocks of the questionnaire untouched from the first item to the last: parties & nightlife (5 questions, first at 15), online & modern life (3 questions, first at 32), alcohol & drugs (7 questions, first at 44), rule-breaking & mischief (4 questions, first at 47) and law & consequences (8 questions, first at 59). A 88 says nothing about any of them, which is worth remembering before reading the number as a description of somebody.

On the band chart, 88 sits 3 points into Mostly Innocent (85–94). 4 more checks move it down to 84 and into Curious. One fewer would have been 89, and 95 is where Pure Soul begins.

Which parts of the list 12 checks can come from

All 12 checks could sit outside the sexual block, since 40 of the 100 statements do. Whether they actually do is the part a score cannot tell you. 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 checked87Mostly Innocent One box fewer checked89Mostly Innocent

Is 88 a bad Rice Purity Test score?

No, and not because 88 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. 88 means 12 statements applied to you and 88 did not. That is the entire claim it makes.

What it cannot tell you is which 12. Two people on 88 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 88 sits from the edges of Mostly Innocent

Above the floor3Mostly Innocent starts at 85

Below the ceiling6Mostly Innocent ends at 94

Ticks to leave it4and Curious 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 — Pure Soul, which starts at 95, is behind you for good. Ticking 4 more of the 100 statements would put you at 84, the top of Curious.

88 against the full scale

9 bands cover 0 to 100. These are the Mostly Innocent row that holds 88 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
95–99	Pure Soul	A handful of the mildest statements applied, and nothing beyond them.A score this close to the ceiling comes from the opening romance statements. The drinking, sexual and law-breaking questions are still untouched.	Score 97 — Pure Soul example page
85–94 — the band your score falls in	Mostly Innocent	Enough checked to cover dating and kissing, and little past it.Under a sixth of the list applied. That is room for the romance block without reaching the questions about sex, drinking or anything with legal consequences.	Score 90 — Mostly Innocent example page
70–84	Curious	Dating is behind you and the bolder questions have started to land.Roughly a sixth to a third of the list applied — enough to clear the romance block and reach the first questions about drinking or sex, with the drug and law-breaking end untouched.	Score 77 — Curious example page

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What does a Rice Purity Test score of 88 mean?

88 falls in the Mostly Innocent band. Scoring 88 means 12 of the 100 questions were answered yes. The list escalates as it goes, so those checks usually sit inside romance & dating and sexual experience and stop there.

Is 88 a bad Rice Purity Test score?

No — "bad" is not a property the scale has. 88 means 12 of the 100 statements applied to you and 88 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 12 you ticked.

How many more questions would move a 88 out of the Mostly Innocent band?

4. Mostly Innocent runs from 85 to 94, so ticking 4 more of the 100 statements takes the score to 84, the top of Curious. It cannot move the other way: the statements are past tense, so a checked one stays checked.

How many questions does a score of 88 mean you checked?

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

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