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Table 2 Number (n) and percentage (%) of students with at least one failure on a CU exam at medical school for each curricular year, both for students who came from public and private secondary schools

From: Do students from public schools fare better in medical school than their colleagues from private schools? If so, what can we learn from this?

Curricular year

Private secondary school (A)

Public secondary school (B)

% Difference (A – B)

Cramer’s v

p-value

 

N

n (%)

N

n (%)

   

1

767

333 (43)

933

319 (34)

9

0.09

< 0.001

2

655

196 (30)

823

166 (24)

6

0.08

0.010

3

550

141 (26)

713

127 (18)

8

0.07

0.001

4

435

43 (10)

616

51 (8)

2

0.03

0.365

5

347

10 (3)

492

9 (2)

1

0.03

0.313

6

238

1 (0)

356

0 (0)

0

0.05

0.401