Club 2002 Kids

[PiggyLalala]

Just4Fun:

dyh:

Top 15: Higher Distinction
Top 16 to 50: Distinction
Top 51 to 120: Credit

Hi Dyh,
Just wonder how do u get this info ? Can't see this in the website.

I am still puzzle with interpreting the result ..
Say if a student's result is 90% , does it mean that he is the top 90% as compared with his peers taking the same result?
Say, out of 3000 children, he shd be at 300th position right?
IF this is correct, then he shd not be awarded a Credit cert, right ?

But there is a child with < 85% but still can get Credit. Why so hu


Anyway can help to explain? :?

Yup.. can anyone explain why huh?

[dagong99]

PiggyLalala:

Are we looking at the same list. I can see cat high in both category, st hilda n acs in one of the category. ...

There are 2 lists, one under Junior and the other under Open. About 30 Toppers each list.

[dagong99]

PiggyLalala:

Just4Fun:

[quote=\"dyh\"]
Top 15: Higher Distinction
Top 16 to 50: Distinction
Top 51 to 120: Credit

Hi Dyh,
Just wonder how do u get this info ? Can't see this in the website.

I am still puzzle with interpreting the result ..
Say if a student's result is 90% , does it mean that he is the top 90% as compared with his peers taking the same result?
Say, out of 3000 children, he shd be at 300th position right?
IF this is correct, then he shd not be awarded a Credit cert, right ?

But there is a child with < 85% but still can get Credit. Why so hu


Anyway can help to explain? :?

Yup.. can anyone explain why huh?[/quote]< 96 percentile can also get Certificate of Distinction .... i.e. 16th - 50th position ....

[dyh]

PiggyLalala:

Just4Fun:

[quote=\"dyh\"]
Top 15: Higher Distinction
Top 16 to 50: Distinction
Top 51 to 120: Credit

Hi Dyh,
Just wonder how do u get this info ? Can't see this in the website.

I am still puzzle with interpreting the result ..
Say if a student's result is 90% , does it mean that he is the top 90% as compared with his peers taking the same result?
Say, out of 3000 children, he shd be at 300th position right?
IF this is correct, then he shd not be awarded a Credit cert, right ?

But there is a child with < 85% but still can get Credit. Why so hu


Anyway can help to explain? :?

Yup.. can anyone explain why huh?[/quote]the only explanation i can think of is that many kids have the same score. After all, there are only 20 questions and all multi choice. so it is very possible to have a few hundred kids getting the credit award because they are all ranked 120th.

[PiggyLalala]

dagong99:

PiggyLalala:

[quote=\"Just4Fun\"]

I am still puzzle with interpreting the result ..
Say if a student's result is 90% , does it mean that he is the top 90% as compared with his peers taking the same result?
Say, out of 3000 children, he shd be at 300th position right?
IF this is correct, then he shd not be awarded a Credit cert, right ?

But there is a child with < 85% but still can get Credit. Why so hu


Anyway can help to explain? :?

Yup.. can anyone explain why huh?

< 96 percentile can also get Certificate of Distinction .... i.e. 16th - 50th position ....[/quote]Just4Fun... I think i may know why. The sample size is not that big. It may be just around 500, not 3000 for your observation to be valid. Possible? I am not very sure though haha...

[PiggyLalala]

dagong99:

PiggyLalala:

Are we looking at the same list. I can see cat high in both category, st hilda n acs in one of the category. ...

There are 2 lists, one under Junior and the other under Open. About 30 Toppers each list.

Thanks dagong99. I know there are 2 lists. I am responding to the earlier posts mentioning that cat high is found in open category and st hilda, acs are not found anywhere.

[dagong99]

PiggyLalala:

dagong99:

[quote=\"PiggyLalala

Yup.. can anyone explain why huh?

< 96 percentile can also get Certificate of Distinction .... i.e. 16th - 50th position ....

Just4Fun... I think i know why. The sample size is not that big. It should be around 500, not 3000 for your observation to be valid.[/quote]

Yup, i also think so and probably the spread between the scores maybe wide too, say maybe about 45 in the 90 percentile, next 60 in 80 percentile, so that it's possible for < 96% to get Distinction & < 85% to get Credit

[dyh]

dagong99:

PiggyLalala:

[quote=\"dagong99\"][quote=\"PiggyLalala

Yup.. can anyone explain why huh?

< 96 percentile can also get Certificate of Distinction .... i.e. 16th - 50th position ....

Just4Fun... I think i know why. The sample size is not that big. It should be around 500, not 3000 for your observation to be valid.[/quote]Yup, i also think so and probably the spread between the scores maybe wide too, say maybe about 45 in the 90 percentile, next 60 in 80 percentile, so that it's possible for < 96% to get Distinction & < 85% to get Credit [/quote]
this still does not explain why some who got 98+% are not in the top 30+ list? I still think the sample size is around 3000. More likely to be due to too many identical scores.

[PiggyLalala]

dyh:

PiggyLalala:

Just4Fun... I think i know why. The sample size is not that big. It should be around 500, not 3000 for your observation to be valid.

this still does not explain why some who got 98+% are not in the top 30+ list? I still think the sample size is around 3000. More likely to be due to too many identical scores.

Hi dyh, yup if there are pupils who got 98 percentile and not in the top 30, then the sample size is unlikely to be around 500.

However yr explanation of identical score would also depend on how they rank the pupils. For example, the top 4 scores are 95%, 94%, 94% and 93%.
The pupil who scored 95% would be ranked 1st, the 2 with 94 would be ranked 2nd, then what about the student with 93%, would the child be ranked 3rd or 4th? If 4th, then the top 150 scorers can only be matched with ard 150- 200 pupils. Am i right to say that? In that case, it would not explain the percentile. Hope I am talking sense.

[PiggyLalala]

Hi dyh,

Thank you so much. I think you have solved the mystery. There are many identical scores and based on the scenario i have posted earlier, the 4th student with 93% is likely to be ranked 3rd not 4th. Am I right? So although there are top 50 positions, there are more than 50 students filling the positions, affecting the percentile accordingly.
Thank you so much for yr explanation. I have been trying to figure out why.

Haha, with all the posts trying to figure out on the percentile, I have hit 1000 posts... haha :rahrah: And now I am a KiasuGrandmaster... LOL.. :rotflmao: