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What does the two digit score mean?

It can't be a percentile as my is 99 and I know my score is not in the top 1% (i.e 2.5 units of standard deviation above the mean).
 
The 2 digit score is a double secret number designed by the Dean of Admissions at the Medical College of Faber University.
 
Nobody really pays attention to the 2-digit score. Everyone I know focuses on the 3-digit result.
 
The two digit score USED to be your percentile rank, but then out of some sensitivity movement they decided to obscure it.

I have no idea what it means now. Supposedly if you pass your score is somewhere between 75 and 99.

I do know this, that for 2002 takers the average was 216 with a standard deviation of 22, so if you got a 238 you were in the top 20% and if you got a 250 you were in the top 5%, 260 puts you in the top 2%
 
Originally posted by pathstudent

I do know this, that for 2002 takers the average was 216 with a standard deviation of 22, so if you got a 238 you were in the top 20% and if you got a 250 you were in the top 5%, 260 puts you in the top 2% [/B]

A standard deviation above the mean, the last time I checked, means you are at the 85th percentile, so doesn't it mean that a 238 means you are top 15%?

plus, this doesn't take into consideration the top or bottom heavy the curve is.
 
Originally posted by Renovar
A standard deviation above the mean, the last time I checked, means you are at the 85th percentile, so doesn't it mean that a 238 means you are top 15%?

Yes.
 
Originally posted by pathstudent
The two digit score USED to be your percentile rank, but then out of some sensitivity movement they decided to obscure it.

I have no idea what it means now. Supposedly if you pass your score is somewhere between 75 and 99.

I do know this, that for 2002 takers the average was 216 with a standard deviation of 22, so if you got a 238 you were in the top 20% and if you got a 250 you were in the top 5%, 260 puts you in the top 2%

correction: +2SD (260), you are at ~ 97.5%ile.
 
+2SD would be a score of 260 (216 + 44), so that is the top 2.5%.

It is not surprising as about 5 people in my school cracked 260 including one freak who cracked 280 (so I have been told)
 
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