My favourite Killjoy members. Column A – From most favourite. Column B Saving the best for last.
Sometimes you have a need to reverse a list quickly in Google Sheets.
That’s pretty easy to do if the list is sorted alphabetically. Just go on into the <Data> menu and choose from one of the sort functions. But what if the data you want to flip is not in alphabetical or numeric order?
Google Sheets – MIN, FILTER, INDEX, MATCH, SUM, COUNTIF
In the region of the world that I work in, it is a pretty common occurrence for university courses to run weekly assessment. At the end of the course, all the weekly assessment is then added together minus the lowest piece of assessment.
For lecturers with small course sizes, this is a pretty simple task that you could simply eyeball if you have a small enough group, but what if your course runs into the thousands with half a dozen tests to choose from. Eyeballing is just not going to do it.
Recently I was asked to do the same thing for the program that I manage. Over an 8 week term, we run 7 assessment at the end of each week for our students. My job was to find the lowest grade out of the 7 assessment and drop it, taking note of the assessment unit that I dropped for each student.
I use Google Sheets for this purpose for its ease of use and sharability.
This is an example dataset of the 7 assessment (in this case, weekly tests) in Google Sheets. We need to remove the lowest grade from each student. As you can see not all students have their lowest grade in the same Unit test.
