% correct to get a 55th percentile?

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<p>This is confusing but basically my AP bio class had a take home practice test we had for 4 months. Me and one girl had the same answers so my teacher assumed we cheated and cut our grade in half giving us a 47.4 each. The only option is to now retake it in 90 min. which is ******** but I can’t do anything about it.</p>

<p>Anyway, to get the grade I want for the marking period I need a 55 or higher on it but it’s curved like a normal AP test was so I’m guessing the 95 I would have gotten means I would have been in the 95th percentile for that year (not surprising since we had 4 months lol). Is there a way to figure out roughly how many I need to get right out of the 120 to be 55th percentile?</p>

<p>Obviously I would try to get as many as possible but I’d just like to know</p>

<p>Thanks,
David</p>

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<p>5 18.3%
4 15.7%
3 16.1%
2 15.3%
1 34.6%</p>

<p>This means 50.1% of the people who write the exam get a 3 or higher and around 50% get 3 or lower.</p>

<p>The curve to get a 3 is approximately 40%. Meaning you’re looking at about 48+/120.</p>

<p>Understand?</p>

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<p>I get what your saying for the first part. So basically your saying people generally need to get 40% right to get a 3? But would that 3 only give me a 50% as my final grade/percentile? because I need a 55</p>

<p>Turns out I’m taking it tomorrow after school because she didn’t even show up friday lol so that sucks.</p>