cutoff score
noun[C]
(alsocut-off score)ukustheminimumnumberofpointsthat someone mustscoreon atestinorderto beconsideredfor ajob, etc.:
Thecutoffscorefortraineeselectionis 25.
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Fifty-one percent of the children studied scored above thecutoffscoreof thirty.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To be eligible you must pass a minimumcutoffscoreand also be within the number of seats available for each academic program.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An arbitrarycutoffscoreof 80% on the total pretest score was set to exclude subjects from the former category.
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With thiscutoffscore, the prevalence of psychological distress was 38%.
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First, the change in children's externalizing problems is described using simple correlations and status relative to acutoffscore.
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According to our study findings, thiscutoffscorewill require follow-up on approximately 50% of patients.
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To identify "depressed mood" we used acutoffscoreof 20.
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The most widely used method of determining the presence of clinical depression in cancer patients is acutoffscoreon one or another of the numerous patient-completed depression inventory scales.
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This is a major consideration when setting thiscutoffscore, as it implies the need for follow-up in approximately 71% of the patients, according to our results.
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Analyses of clinical cutoff scores showed that only the controlling group had a significantly greater likelihood of overall problem behavior than other children.
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