Chemistry A-Level
Accuracy
What Accuracy means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Accuracy
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Reference: OCR
Describes how close a measurement is to the true value.
Topics that use Accuracy
- Evaluation (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Anomaly
- Apparatus uncertainty
- Concordant
- Direction of error
- Justifying exclusion
- Limitation
- Percentage error
- Precision
Using Accuracy in the exam
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