What is the difference between percentage and percentile in JEE Mains?

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Sunil Soni
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In mathematics, a percentage is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. In JEE, it is number scored by you on the scale of 100. A percentile is a measure used in statistics indicating the value below, which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall. For example,

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