>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.
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>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.

No, not so bad at all ;-) We are on the same page now.