SOLUTION: When the result of your national achievement test (NAT) was released, your teacher announced that your score is on the 95th percentile among all the students in your school who too

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Question 1202107: When the result of your national achievement test (NAT) was released, your teacher announced that your score is on the 95th percentile among all the students in your school who took the examination. WITH SOLUTION
1. Explain the 95th percentile in this situation.
2. Did you perform well in the given examination? Why or why not?

Answer by Theo(13342)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
that means that your score was better than 95% of the students who took the same test.
you did good.
you're in the top 5%.

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