That is not my understanding. Maybe I've had it wrong all this time, or usage differs. In the U.S. schoolchildren get results showing what percentile they scored at. Oh, you're referring to the norm-referenced/standard score- the "percentile" reflects the position a child would hold in a group of 100 other kids. So 49th percentile means the child is as good or better than 49 of the other kids on that measure, 95th percentile means they're as good as or better than 95 of the other kids on that measure. Sorry, I misunderstood your previous post to be saying that 95th percentile meant you'd done badly.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
