# Scoring question

**URL:** <https://forum.numer.ai/t/scoring-question/6362>\
**Category:** Tournament\
**Created:** [May 13, 2023, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/scoring-question/6362 "2023-05-13T17:27:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![marianotir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@marianotir](https://forum.numer.ai/u/marianotir)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2023, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/scoring-question/6362/1 "2023-05-13T17:27:31Z")

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If models are trained to predict the 20D target. Why are models evaluated over the 3D target and 4D target and so on?

> **[Scoring | Numerai Docs](https://docs.numer.ai/numerai-tournament/scoring)**

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**Author:** ![mic](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/mic/32/2949_2.png) [@mic](https://forum.numer.ai/u/mic)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/scoring-question/6362/2 "2023-05-14T11:31:29Z")

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They are just progress scores so you can see how you’re going. The performance at 20 days is the important one.