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Leaving Cert Points Question?

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  • 10-01-2007 8:19pm
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    Chong
    Registered Users Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭


    Ok my younger brother is filling out his CAO form and he is looking at points from last year. He would like to know what the difference between points and "Median" points mean??

    Lets say there is a course ok and its states the following:

    Points : 260

    Median ; 295


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    abelard
    Registered Users Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭abelard


    Points are teh least amount of points that were necessary for the course. When deciding who to offer a place to, the person who applied who got the highest points is chosen first, then the next highest and so on, until the last space is filled. This number is thus the amount of points that the last person (or number of people) who was selected had.

    Median (I think) is then half way between that person's points, and the points of the first person chosen, ie half way betwwen the lowest and highest points.


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    Chong
    Registered Users Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭Chong


    Cheers thanks for clearing that up mate.

    Thanks again

    Will


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    PrincessFiona
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    i.e. Median= Average


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    Time Magazine
    Registered Users Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    Median is a slightly different 'average' to the mean; it's the point where there are as many people who got lower points than you than higher.


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    poobum
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    median is if you wrote all the numbers down of those who got the points, in ascending order and took the figure exactly in the middle, say for example of the numbers 3, 29, 15, 17, 2,
    write in ascending order- 2, 3, 15, 17, 29, the middle term(median) is 15 where as the average(mean) would be 13.2
    that make sense?


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