Excel: VLOOKUP

Generate a fake grade book

Find each student’s average

Grade scale Grade Range 94-100 A 91-93.99 A- 88-91.99 B+ 85-87.99 B 82-84.99 B- 79-81.99 C+ 76-78.99 C 73-75.99 C- 70-72.99 D+ 67-69.99 D 0-66.99 F

In Excel: IMPORTANT!!! Take the lower end of each range Arrange them in ascending order Put the numbers you will look up on the left

Enter the grading scale into Excel

Use the VLOOKUP formula

=VLOOKUP(F2,I$2:J$12,2,TRUE) F2: What am I looking up (the test average for the student) I$2:J$12: Where am I looking it up (in the grading scaling area – $ fix the numbers when I copy down) 2: The column of the look-up I will use for the displayed result. It ALWAYS uses the first column for looking up. In this case the 2nd. Imagine if in the column next to F, it said “failure” and next to D “below average” etc. TRUE: I am uses ranges – so the test average does not have to match exactly one of the values in column I but rather just fall in a range

Excel dialog on VLOOKUP