What is Percentile in BSSC Exam? How to Calculate Percentile
Marks? Bihar SSC Graduate Level P.T. exam result has been declared on the basis
of percentile. This is the first time, when Bihar Staff Selection Commission implemented
percentile method to announce BSSC Graduate level exam result. Here is
everything you should know about how is percentile marks calculated?
What is Percentile in BSSC Exam? The only question
candidates want to know about BSSC Results of Graduate level exam. Bihar SSC
has recently announced Percentile Cutoff in BSSC Exam. Many candidates are against Percentile in BSSC Exam.
What is Percentile in BSSC Exam?
What is the meaning of Percentile in BSSC is the question
which many of aspirants have been asking around. Let us try to find out the
meaning of Percentile in BSSC Exam and how is it calculated for BSSC Graduate Level Marks.
Percentile has been used in Bihar SSC exam. Thus, the higher
percentile, the better marks but, it is different from percentage marks.
Percentile gives an idea of Relative performance with others and not how high
you scored out of the total marks.
Percentile: Percentile
is percentage of candidates (appearing the exam) who have scored less than you in
exam. If 100 aspirants write an exam, and you get 98 percentile, then you have
scored more marks than 98 other candidate.
How to Calculate Percentile Marks?
Your percentile Score = { (No. of candidates who got less
marks than you or equal to you) / (No. of candidates appearing in the exam) } x
100
Example: In an exam, 10 people give the test and 9 people
get either less than what you got or equal to what you got, your percentile
score is:
{9/10} x 100 = 90 percentile.
Look at another example, among 2500 candidates if you rank 3rd,
your percentile would be calculated thus:
1No. of candidates have outperformed = 2500 - 3 = 2497
2Total Number of candidates taking the test = 2500
1Percentile = (2497/2500) * 100 = 99.88
Take another example, consider an examination taken by 5000
candidates and you got 5th rank and 10 More people got 5th rank. In this case,
Percentile will be calculated like this.
15000 – 5 = 4996
2Again, 4996 – 10 = 4886
3Now Percentile = (4886/5000) * 100 = 97.72
This is the most generally used method of calculating
percentiles. I guess same method BSSC has used for calculating percentiles.