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15-20% == 80-85% What is a B average? "B" = 80-89% So, their standardized scores more or less lines up with their grades.
by yardie 3y ago
15-20% == 80-85%
What is a B average?
"B" = 80-89%
So, their standardized scores more or less lines up with their grades.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> 15-20% == 80-85% That's not how percentiles work. (The upthread 15-20 was %ile not %.) I mean, I can imagine a test where the 15th-20th %ile range happened to be a score of 80-85%, but that would be coincidence or design of the specific test, not a natural equivalence.
- Izkata 3y agoI figure this was the same mistake as the first other response, I made the same one initially when reading that comment and thought they were saying "B" was lower than it should have been, not higher than it should have been. How "percentile" actually works isn't something I've given any thought in like a decade or more, my first read was "top 15-20%" before going back and remembering it's actually more like "bottom 15-20%" (or more precisely something like "better than 15-20% of other takers").