Percentage vs Percentile: Understanding the Difference

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May 22, 2023

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Let’s say there are 50 questions on the math test, and the mark for each question is 1. And let’s consider that there are 10 students in the class. Each student’s mark is given.

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Well. In this part, we might need to look at the simple formula of the percentile.

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So, we have learned that there is a difference between percentage and percentile. However, the question remains: when and where should we use percentiles?

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We will explore this further in a future article.

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