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Re:95th percentile isn't that hard to reach by mint2 on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:26AM (#22267559)
I’m Recalling whether it was 96% or 94%, but I got a perfect on my math sat II. And yet the perfect score was only ~95%.

Top 1/20 Can be impressive or unimpressive depending on context.

Top 1/20 is impressive if everyone in the group is competitive. It’s not impressive if it’s 1/20 out of a bunch of randoms who’ve never tried to be good at it.

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Re:95th percentile isn't that hard to reach by jdashg on Friday February 07, 2020 @12:58PM (#22268746)
SAT II Chinese listening test has 800 at 61%ile: https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/sat/pdf/sat-subject-te...
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Re:95th percentile isn't that hard to reach by lostinroutine on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:25PM (#22269752)
In your case, I'd say ~95% in Math SAT II is still rather impressive because the group of people taking SAT II is already self-selected as few schools actually require the test.
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