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<blockquote data-quote="Ram Sabaratnam" data-source="post: 214646" data-attributes="member: 36738"><p>Hiya @[USER=31717]👩🎓[/USER]</p><p></p><p>Just to clarify: a percentile is not the same as a percentage. A percentage is your raw score (e.g. getting 75% of questions correct), whereas a percentile tells you how well you performed <em>relative to others</em> in your norm group. So if you’re in the 75th percentile, that means you scored better than 75% of people in that group, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you got 75% of the answers right. Even with the same number of correct answers, your percentile could shift dramatically depending on the norm group.</p><p></p><p>What makes this tricky is that you don’t know what norm group you're being compared against; it could be everyone applying to that firm, or a broader population. You also don’t know how the firm is using the result. Some use it as a hard filter, others as just one factor among many. For now, I'd just focus on trying to get better and understand the type of reasoning demanded by each section. </p><p></p><p>Hope this is helpful and not rehashing anything you already know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ram Sabaratnam, post: 214646, member: 36738"] Hiya @[USER=31717]👩🎓[/USER] Just to clarify: a percentile is not the same as a percentage. A percentage is your raw score (e.g. getting 75% of questions correct), whereas a percentile tells you how well you performed [I]relative to others[/I] in your norm group. So if you’re in the 75th percentile, that means you scored better than 75% of people in that group, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you got 75% of the answers right. Even with the same number of correct answers, your percentile could shift dramatically depending on the norm group. What makes this tricky is that you don’t know what norm group you're being compared against; it could be everyone applying to that firm, or a broader population. You also don’t know how the firm is using the result. Some use it as a hard filter, others as just one factor among many. For now, I'd just focus on trying to get better and understand the type of reasoning demanded by each section. Hope this is helpful and not rehashing anything you already know. [/QUOTE]
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