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A student's national percentile rank score of 56% on a standardized test indicates that

  1. the student earned a 56 on the test

  2. 56% of the students who took the test scored a 21 or below

  3. 56% of the students who took the test scored a 56

  4. the student got 56% of the questions correct

The correct answer is: 56% of the students who took the test scored a 21 or below

A student's national percentile rank score of 56% on a standardized test indicates that 56% of the students who took the test scored a 21 or below. This means that the student performed better than 56% of the students who took the test. Option A is incorrect because the percentile rank score is a measure of how a student compares to others, not their actual score on the test. Option C is incorrect because it implies that 56% of the students who took the test received the same score as the student. Option D is incorrect because the percentile rank score is not based on the number of questions a student answers correctly, but rather how they perform compared to other students.