ACT Math · Statistics and data analysis
A student's test score is at the 75th percentile. What does this mean?
A student's test score is at the 75th percentile. What does this mean?
Answer and explanation
Answer: G: 75% of other students scored at or below this student.
A percentile tells where a score ranks within a group. Being at the 75th percentile means that about of the scores are at or below this student's score, so choice G is correct. Choice F confuses the percentile with a percent-correct score; a student at the 75th percentile could have answered any share of the questions correctly. Choice H confuses it with a raw score of points. Choice J reverses the meaning: roughly of scores are at or above this student's score, not at or below it. Percentiles describe rank, not accuracy.
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