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MR. CUNNINGHAM'S inquiry (August 5) is aimed, apparently, at obtaining a kind of index mark for each candidate in an examination containing several papers. In getting a boy's percentage mark in any one paper there is no trouble; but the question is, By what law are percentages in different papers to be combined in order to get an index mark? Percentages may be combined in an infinite number of ways; which is the way Mr. Cunningham desires?
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DICKSON, J. Percentages in School Marks. Nature 81, 367 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081367b0
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