perfect score
noun
chiefly US
: the number of points that someone can get for answering all the questions correctly on a test, exam, etc.
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Next up was the Autodesk/Kickstarter test, a benchmark print with a scoring rubric in which a perfect score is 30 points.
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PC Magazine, 22 Nov. 2025
But Chiles suggests that, by her standards, a perfect score is a 40, not a 10.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 20 Nov. 2025
Zero demerits is considered a perfect score.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Nov. 2025
Maksim Chmerkovskiy, whose brother Val Chmerkovskiy and partner Alix Earle received their first perfect score of the season in this episode, sat in the audience as well.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
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PC Magazine, 22 Nov. 2025
But Chiles suggests that, by her standards, a perfect score is a 40, not a 10.
—Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 20 Nov. 2025
Zero demerits is considered a perfect score.
—Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Nov. 2025
Maksim Chmerkovskiy, whose brother Val Chmerkovskiy and partner Alix Earle received their first perfect score of the season in this episode, sat in the audience as well.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
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“Perfect score.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfect%20score. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.
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