Rice Purity Test score 97: Pure Soul

Is 97 a good score?

There is no good or bad Rice Purity Test score. 97 means 3 of the 100 items were checked and 97 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 97 can have checked completely different items.

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.

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What checking 3 boxes actually covers

Scoring 97 means 3 of the 100 questions were answered yes. The list escalates as it goes, so those checks usually sit inside romance & dating and stop there.

Where 3 checks reach on the classic list

1.Held hands romantically?
2.Been on a date?
3.Been in a relationship?

4.Danced without leaving room for Jesus? — the first item a 97 leaves unchecked.

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

A 97 sits 47 points above the halfway mark of the scale, so more of the questionnaire is still unchecked than checked.

Which parts of the list 3 checks can come from

All 3 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 checked96Pure Soul One box fewer checked98Pure Soul

97 against the full scale

9 bands cover 0 to 100. The Pure Soul row is the one holding 97.

Every Rice Purity Test score band, from 100 down to 0, with what each range describes.
Score	Band	What the number describes	Detail page
100	Untouched	Nothing on the list applied. That is the ceiling of the test.The top of the scale means every statement was left unchecked. The list opens with the mildest situations it has — holding hands, a first kiss — so holding the ceiling means none of those applied either.	Score 100 — Untouched example page
95–99 — the band your score falls in	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	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
55–69	Average Explorer	The middle of the scale: a third to just under half the list applied.Scores here usually span dating, drinking and part of the sexual block while leaving the drug and arrest questions empty. Both halves of the list are in play, neither of them finished.	Score 62 — Average Explorer example page
40–54	Experienced	About half the list applied.Reaching this range takes more than one block: the sexual questions are largely checked and the substance questions have started. The far end of the list — arrests, hard drugs — is still mostly empty.	Score 47 — Experienced example 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	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 97 mean?

97 falls in the Pure Soul band. Scoring 97 means 3 of the 100 questions were answered yes. The list escalates as it goes, so those checks usually sit inside romance & dating and stop there.

How many questions does a score of 97 mean you checked?

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

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