Table 4 Number (n) and percentage (%) of students with at least one failure of a CU exam during the 1st year of medical school, both for students who came from secondary schools that highly inflated their internal grades in the year of students’ admission to medical school and those that did not
Year of admission to | Schools that highly inflate internal grades (A) | Other schools (B) | % Difference (A – B) | Cramer’s v | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Medical school | N | n (%) | N | n (%) | |||
2009 | 105 | 55 (52) | 116 | 58 (50) | 2 | 0.02 | 0.724 |
2010 | 102 | 46 (45) | 119 | 40 (34) | 11 | 0.12 | 0.081 |
2011 | 90 | 32 (36) | 118 | 26 (22) | 14 | 0.15 | 0.031 |
2012 | 106 | 18 (17) | 108 | 18 (17) | 0 | 0.00 | 0.951 |
2013 | 104 | 46 (44) | 98 | 33 (34) | 10 | 0.11 | 0.124 |
2014 | 111 | 56 (50) | 86 | 29 (34) | 16 | 0.17 | 0.019 |