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Dear Excel users

I have a list of test results, i want to set grades by percentile rankings. i worked out from my set of test results where the boundaries will be using the percentile.exc formula.  Then i have to use a vlookup on this table against the test results to define the right grades for the test results

so a test result of 34 is in the 6th percentile so should be given a grade 3 , now i could do this manually, but more reliably  by (vlookup, true) BUT I am sure it is possible to do this in one step, so that a formula is applied to the test result column that basically says, if the test result is in the lowest 5th percentile, give grade 2 , 6 to 27 percentile, give grade 3 ,, etc etc

Just one simple formula would be great as I have to do this 45 different sets of test data in one sitting

but I can't work out the formula,, any suggestions please? I've seen it is possible, but I should have written it down months ago

percentile marks for grade boundary Grade
<6 0 2
6 34 3
28 50 4
50 64 5
73 72 6
95 92 7
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I think you could use something like:

 

=LOOKUP(B2,PERCENTILE.INC($B$2:$B$10,{0,0.06,0.28,0.5,0.73,0.95}),{2,3,4,5,6,7})

 

where B2:B10 has your data set in.

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thank you very much i will try that, 

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That works ,, brilliant, thanks so much.

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