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What percentile am I in?

Good evening,
I just opened my GCSE results to find that I achieved 10 straight 9 grades and an A in Further Maths.

Maths - 9 (95%)
English Literature - (93% with 100% in coursework and 79/90 in exam)
English Language - 9 (100% in coursework)
Biology - 9 (90% in paper 2)
Chemistry - 9
Physics - 9
Latin - 9 (93%)
History - 9 (90%)
Geography - 9 (88%)
French - 9 (90%)

What percentile of results would you estimate mine are within? Thank you.

Reply 1

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by Physicist123
Good evening,
I just opened my GCSE results to find that I achieved 10 straight 9 grades and an A in Further Maths.
Maths - 9 (95%)
English Literature - (93% with 100% in coursework and 79/90 in exam)
English Language - 9 (100% in coursework)
Biology - 9 (90% in paper 2)
Chemistry - 9
Physics - 9
Latin - 9 (93%)
History - 9 (90%)
Geography - 9 (88%)
French - 9 (90%)
What percentile of results would you estimate mine are within? Thank you.

Top 500 students in the UK is my estimate. Congrats!

Reply 3

Original post
by Physicist123
Good evening,
I just opened my GCSE results to find that I achieved 10 straight 9 grades and an A in Further Maths.
Maths - 9 (95%)
English Literature - (93% with 100% in coursework and 79/90 in exam)
English Language - 9 (100% in coursework)
Biology - 9 (90% in paper 2)
Chemistry - 9
Physics - 9
Latin - 9 (93%)
History - 9 (90%)
Geography - 9 (88%)
French - 9 (90%)
What percentile of results would you estimate mine are within? Thank you.

Why on earth does it matter? How do these compare to your school cohort? That the important question.

Reply 4

99th percentile

Reply 5

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by Muttley79
Why on earth does it matter? How do these compare to your school cohort? That the important question.


It doesn’t but people still want to know for whatever reason - especially if their grades are exceptional

Reply 6

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by sdfj
It doesn’t but people still want to know for whatever reason - especially if their grades are exceptional

No, sensible students move on to bigger and better. In some schools these won't be exceptional
(edited 1 year ago)

Reply 7

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by Muttley79
No, sensible students move on to bigger and better. In some schools these won't be exceptional


Well considering that 1270 students got straight 9s, those grades would be pretty stunning in basically every school, bar a handful like St Paul’s, Westminster or NLCS. But yeah I agree - percentiles are pretty irrelevant at this stage.

Reply 8

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by sdfj
Well considering that 1270 students got straight 9s, those grades would be pretty stunning in basically every school, bar a handful like St Paul’s, Westminster or NLCS. But yeah I agree - percentiles are pretty irrelevant at this stage.

So that's why I asked about the cohort - some Grammars also get students with straight 9s; it's not just fee-paying schools.

Reply 9

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by Muttley79
So that's why I asked about the cohort - some Grammars also get students with straight 9s; it's not just fee-paying schools.


Yeah of course they would, but straight nines isn’t achieved by 30% of pupils in even the best of grammar schools, unlike in some of the schools I mentioned.

Reply 10

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by sdfj
Yeah of course they would, but straight nines isn’t achieved by 30% of pupils in even the best of grammar schools, unlike in some of the schools I mentioned.

And ... so it's not exceptional if you go to one of them is it? Fee-paying schools are far more selective than Grammars so they should get good results

Reply 11

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by Muttley79
And ... so it's not exceptional if you go to one of them is it? Fee-paying schools are far more selective than Grammars so they should get good results


Yeah if you go to a top independent school, then those grades aren’t ‘exceptional’, but more just ‘strong’

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