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Persons responsible for evaluating academic progress may wish to obtain numbers that measure performance on portions of a test as well as overall performance. For the purpose of calculating such values, certain formulas are useful. These formulas apply to tests that are partitioned into sections that each offer a portion of credit. That is, by earning all the credit available for each section of the test, one earns the total amount of credit that the test offers.

For example, suppose that an instructor divides a test into five sections and allows a student to earn from zero to twenty units of credit (points) by responding correctly to the challenges in each section. Then the total amount of credit available is 5x20 points or 100 points. Of course the instructor might assign varying amounts of credit to the sections.

The instructor might organize the results of a student's test with a table of data.