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# What is STEN scores?

STEN scores are short for “Standard Ten score”. STEN scores show results using a simple standardized scale from 1 to 10 that have a distribution like this:

![sten\_distribution](https://support.master-hr.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Support/sten_distribution.png?width=688&name=sten_distribution.png)

STEN scores always follow the normal distribution. They have a mean of 5.5 and a standard deviation of 2 and are then rounded to the nearest whole number.

STEN scores have several benefits:

- Easy to communicate as a “scale from 1 to 10”
- No negative values
- Statistically robust against measurement errors
- Standardized to make comparisons across different results very easy

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