90th percentile is simple another way of saying that 9% scored above and 90% scored below (the other 1% being the number 90).
For example, if you take a type of standardized test in high school, if you do well, you are at the 90th percentile, meaning 90% of students scored lower than you and 9% scored better. You can not be in the 100% percentile, because you cannot score better than yourself.
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It means that the value of the observation is in the highest ten percent. Whether that is good or bad depends on the context.
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First, an IQ test of only ten questions is not going to be very accurate. One out of ten would be the 90th percentile. Which would be somewhere around 125.
That would be ninetieth.
A score of 121 puts you in about the 90th percentile of all other eleven year olds, which means that you scored higher than 90 percent of all other kids your age if you were tested professionally by someone who is qualified as in a psychologist or psychometrist.