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ni-mum

Ex-Spendaholic wrote: »

Can someone please tell me what percentiles are all about? Is this different than the quintiles?

It's a more precise indication of how your score compares to other. If your score is above 113, ie the top quintile, then your percentile rank will be between 80% and 99%.

Ex-Spendaholic

Would that make 104 around the 70% mark?

JosieJoBelfast

Ex-Spendaholic wrote: »

Can someone please tell me what percentiles are all about? Is this different than the quintiles?

I think it is that percentiles are a comparison score. The number of a percentile represents how well or how poorly someone did as compared to other students. It does not represent the number of questions you answered correctly. If you score in the 70th percentile, you scored better than 70 out of 100 people who took the test. If you score in the 50th, read this as better than 50 people who took the test.

Victoria are taking the AQE scores and making them into percentiles. Someone said they got a 89% which I assuming gives them a percentile of 89 which means they did better than 89 out of a 100 that did the test.

Remember something like this from gcse maths but don't take this as gospel...please correct me if I am wrong.....

PS all - at a meeting tonight and the top score was definitely 128, a girl in victoria prep scored it and was confirmed by a principal of a grammar school.

ni-mum

Ex-Spendaholic wrote: »

Would that make 104 around the 70% mark?

104 is in the third quintile so between 40% and 60%. If your percentile rank is 55% it means your score is better than 55% of those who took the test or in other words in the top 45%. It's not the actual percentage mark.

vido

ni-mum wrote: »

Has anyone heard if Grosvenor are likely to accept the 3rd quintile?

I had my meeting with son's headmaster today and he told me Grosvenor are expecting to be even more over subscribed than usual due to the 'new build.' Mightn't do any harm to drop them an email and ask what mark they would expect - they have been very accommodating during the entire process.

ni-mum

JosieJoBelfast wrote: »

PS all - at a meeting tonight and the top score was definitely 128, a girl in victoria prep scored it and was confirmed by a principal of a grammar school.

Which grammar school principal confirmed that? I heard (from my neighbour whose son goes to Inchmarlo) that Victoria's top mark was 123??

neveranymoney

Our head teacher had told us in June that a child would need to be getting an actual percentage of 75 plus to get a grammar school place, how would I work this out? (And I went to grammar school) Also, what will happen in May if your child has not been accepted to any of their school choices??

Ex-Spendaholic

This percentile thing is adding even more confusion to my already confused brain. :rotfl:

I know a child who got 127. He thoroughly deserved it. His mother is hoping that he has enough for his first choice. :eek: Just goes to show that no-one in this process is confident.

ni-mum

Ex-Spendaholic wrote: »

This percentile thing is adding even more confusion to my already confused brain. :rotfl:

I know a child who got 127. He thoroughly deserved it. His mother is hoping that he has enough for his first choice. :eek: Just goes to show that no-one in this process is confident.

If you have a daughter and live in Belfast I would ring Victoria and ask for the percentile rank even if you don't intend going there. I'm slowly working out what my son's is as I hear what girls I know have got.

127 is without a doubt enough for first choice.

Ex-Spendaholic

neveranymoney wrote: »

Also, what will happen in May if your child has not been accepted to any of their school choices??

It seems you can list as many grammars as you want on the form and you must also list a secondary (regardless of what mark you have). Therefore I'd be putting all the grammars within travelling distance on the form. Presumably what will happen is that if you aren't successful in getting a place in one of your grammar choices then they will pass the form to your secondary choice. I assume if you aren't getting in there, they will just allocate you somewhere.