Creating a PASS or Fail Condition - School Schedules

I have created a spreadsheet that calculates Learners’ marks. I’ve got all totals, averages, but my problem is creating a condition that will give me a final remark, determining a PASS or FAIL of a learner.

Creteria for promotion:

1. A learner must have obtained a minimum of 40% in English (it’s a must);
2. Must atleast have 2 more 40% in any of the subjects;
3. Lastly, a learner must atleast achieve 30% in any of the remaining subjects;

Meaning 3 of 40% (1 from english and any other 2 subjects) and 3 of 30% from any of the remaining subjects.

Please help, I am busy working on the school mark schedules

To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook, the workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook.

If needed supply a before and after sheet in the workbook so the person helping you can see what you are trying to achieve.

Doing this will ensure you get the result you need!

As outlined already a sample file will help as the setup is not very clear...

For ex. is English always in A1 etc ?
Are the values in the cells the numeric marks only (45) or are they strings (English = 45) ?

Based on:

Originally Posted by phanuelmas

3 of 40% (1 from english)
3 of 30% from the remaining subjects.

and assuming per your sample that English mark is always in A1 and that the cells contain the numeric marks only:

=IF(AND(A1>=40,SMALL(A2:A7,2)>=40,SMALL(A2:A7,5)>=30),"Pass","Fail")

above edited: missing an argument

Still not crystal clear, however, adapting the prior suggestion per the attachment

K6:
=IF(A6="","",IF(AND(B6>=40,SMALL(C6:H6,2)>=40,SMALL(C6:H6,5)>=30),"Pass","Fail"))
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