Can you please specify me the meaning of "Being in the top 20 percentile"??
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Being in top 20 percentile means that 80 percent of the total students should be behind you. Percentile tells you that how much ahead are you of the crowd. For example, if a student scores 90 percentile then this indicates that he is ahead of 90 percent people and behind 10 percent .
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