What is a Basal Score? Your Guide to Assessment Starting Points
                                
                                
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                                In educational and psychological testing, test examiners give credit for items a student does not even attempt based on a scoring technique called the basal rule. A basal score is the starting point on a test where a test taker is assumed to have answered all preceding, easier questions correctly.