The success ranking tells you what place you hold among test takers in the same score type. The score can change from year to year; the ranking gives a more consistent comparison.
The difference between score and ranking
The same net can give different scores in different years, because the difficulty of the exam and the average of the candidates change every year. The ranking answers the question "how many people are ahead of me" and makes comparison across years easier.
How is the ranking estimated?
After the exam ÖSYM publishes distribution tables showing the number of candidates by score. The ranking is estimated by looking at which place your score corresponds to in this table. At very high scores even small differences can change the rank by hundreds.
When choosing
- Look at a program's base success rankings in past years.
- Look at the last few years, not a single year.
- Keeping your own ranking a bit better than the program's base ranking gives a safe choice.
- For the official ranking, trust only the ÖSYM result document.