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Table 2 Like-for-like comparison across schools.

From: Variation in performance on common content items at UK medical schools

2016–17							2017-18
School	Mean score	SD score	Tertile	95 % pass score	Stringent % failing	Lenient % failing	School	Mean score	SD score	Tertile	95 % pass score	Stringent % failing	Lenient % failing
x08	0.87	0.07	3	30	2.58 %	0 %	x11	0.82	0.08	3	32	0.85 %	0 %
x19	0.85	0.07	3	30	2.98 %	0.30 %	x12	0.76	0.09	3	30	4.76 %	0 %
x25	0.84	0.08	3	29	6.25 %	0.57 %	x10	0.76	0.09	3	29	5.33 %	0 %
x12	0.82	0.09	3	27	14.17 %	1.67 %	x05	0.75	0.1	3	28	9.91 %	0.90 %
x05	0.81	0.09	2	28	12.77 %	1.42 %	x02	0.75	0.09	2	29	6.82 %	0 %
x15	0.81	0.09	2	26	15.30 %	0.55 %	x29	0.75	0.09	2	28	8.60 %	0.54 %
x21	0.8	0.08	2	27	15.56 %	2.67 %	x28	0.72	0.1	2	27	15.09 %	0.35 %
x16	0.8	0.09	2	26	18.58 %	2.77 %	x13	0.72	0.1	2	27	17.13 %	1.85 %
x04	0.78	0.09	1	25	25.91 %	4.45 %	x01	0.72	0.1	2	26	15.32 %	0.40 %
x07	0.77	0.09	1	25	26.87 %	2.99 %	x20	0.72	0.09	1	28	13.04 %	1.74 %
x18	0.76	0.07	1	26	22.22 %	1.85 %	x22	0.68	0.11	1	25	27.04 %	2.55 %
x17	0.76	0.09	1	24	32.44 %	5.35 %	x24	0.67	0.11	1	23	24.50 %	7.50 %
x10	0.74	0.11	1	22	39.52 %	10.78 %	x08	0.67	0.09	1	25	30.00 %	2.86 %
							x03	0.67	0.11	1	23	31.98 %	5.58 %

Note: school codes were different each year. The “stringent” standard set the pass score as close as possible to yield a 5 % fail rate for the highest scoring medical schools. The “lenient” standard set the pass score as close as possible to yield a 5 % fail rate for the lowest scoring medical schools. For the columns “stringent” and “lenient” the values refer to the percentage of candidates at the medical school who have failed the assessment under the stringent/lenient criteria. Tertile 1 contains the lowest scoring schools

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