40 percentile means how much at 16 lakhs people
Hello aspirant
The most commonly searched term by Engineering aspirants has been Jee main marks vs percentile. This is because of the fact that although NTA has specified the normalization process, it has not been shed any light in the specific data that have been used to calculate the Jee main marks vs percentile. Since rank can be derived in the basis of the percentile, students are searching for percentile they will obtain for the marks they expect in jee main.
If you want to calculate all of india rank among 16 lakh candidates, you can calculate it with the following formula
(100- your percentile) × number of candidates appeared )÷ 100
(100-40) × 16,00,000 ÷ 100
= 960,000
In this way you can calculate rank with percentile.
In order to get admission in IIT and nit good score an be around 90 percentile. At the same time , the candidate must feature among the top 15000 - 20,000 ranks range to get admission.
Hi,
40 percentile means that you scored better than 40 percent of all the test takers. It also means that 60 percent scored the same or better than you.
For more detailed for jee mains marks vs percentile Go through this link:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-marks-vs-percentile/amp
I hope it helps you.
Happy learning!