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Your decile score

How your rank among other learners is worked out and shown, to the nearest 10%.

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Your decile shows where your accuracy places you among other SimpleMed+ learners, to the nearest 10%. You get one decile for all your answers and one for each subject.

How it is shown

  • The 1st decile is the top 10%.
  • The 1st to 5th deciles show as the top 10% to 50%, and the 6th to 10th as the bottom 50% to 10%, so the 10th decile is the bottom 10%.

When you get one

  • You need 20 answers overall, or 10 answers in a subject for that subject's decile.
  • A decile needs at least 30 ranked learners overall, or 20 in a subject; until then you will see that there are not enough learners yet.

Which answers count

  • Practice questions and answered or timed-out exam questions count.
  • Free practice sets, and answers removed by deleting sessions or a progress reset, do not. So your decile can use fewer answers than your Questions answered total.

How the rank is worked out

  1. Your rank is one plus the number of learners with strictly higher accuracy, so ties share the better rank.
  2. Your decile is your rank divided by the number of learners, multiplied by 10 and rounded up.
  3. Rankings include you and update every 10 minutes; the dashboard can take up to another 5 minutes to catch up.