Predictive factors of success at the French National Ranking Examination (NRE): a retrospective study of the student performance from a French medical school

Table 3 Description of the quantitative variables of the population (n = 242) and univariate analysis of the predictive factors associated with a better ranking of the Reims students at the 2015 NRE

Variables	n	Mean rank (± SD)	r^d	p
Mean age (year)	242	25.2 (± 1.5)	0.41	< 0.0001
Mean rank in first year¹	207	122 (± 73)	0.29	< 0.0001
Mean results at the CSCT² (in points)	230	573 (± 67)	−0.80	< 0.0001
Mean rank (SD) at the CSCT²	230	116 (± 67)	0.80	< 0.0001
White NRE (sixth year)^a
Median number of white NRE completed^a	156	3 (range: 0–6)	− 0.44	< 0.0001
Mean results at Hippocrate white NRE January 2015^3,b	97	449 (± 101)	−0.73	< 0.0001
Mean rank at Hippocrate white NRE January 2015^3,b	97	2699 (± 1023)	0.79	< 0.0001
Mean results at Hippocrate white NRE March 2015^3,c	63	557 (± 123)	−0.79	< 0.0001
Mean results at Hippocrate white NRE March 2015^3,c	63	1812 (± 1053)	0.75	< 0.0001

¹One student entered the second cycle of medical studies with a counter-equivalence and did not attend the first year ranking exam. SD: standard-deviation. ²CSCT: French certificate of clinical synthesis and therapeutics. ³Hippocrate-ECN conference, Faculté Dauphine, Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, Paris. ^aUnknown: n = 80 (33%); ^bUnknown: n = 50 (21%); ^cUnknown: n = 59 (25%). ^da negative correlation coefficient r was associated with a better ranking
boldface entries are statistically significant with a p < 0.05

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