Prognostic value of university entrance examinations in Scotland.

Date:
1934
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Credit: Prognostic value of university entrance examinations in Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the purpose of this table the categories numbered 4, 6, 7, 8, and g in Table II have been put together as “Others.”) It is clear from this table that, judged by the percentage that graduated within four years of first matriculation, students who entered by way of the Scottish Leaving Certificate alone are distinctly superior to those who entered by way of a combination of Leaving Certificate and Preliminary Examination, and still more distinctly superior to those who entered by the Preliminary Examination alone. The group of students entering with Leav- ing Certificate alone shows the highest percentage of Honours and the lowest percentage of incomplete degrees. Of those who entered by the Preliminary Examination alone almost half had failed to complete their degrees at Easter 1933. The group who entered with a combination of Leaving Certificate and Preliminary Examination take an intermediate position. This is to be expected, for most, though not all, of the students who take the Preliminary Examination are Scottish, and many of these take it in whole or in part because they have failed to obtain at the Leaving Certificate Examination all, or any of, the passes required by the Entrance Board, though it is taken also by a number of students who have not taken a full Secondary School Course, and are therefore ineligible for presentation at the Leaving Certificate Examination. Table IV shows the University courses taken by pupils who failed in various subjects in the Leaving Certificate but passed them in the University Preliminary (or other) Examination. There are 49 students in this table. Of these there were 30 who took in their degree course at the University the subject in which they had failed at the Leaving Certificate Examination. Of these 30 there were 24 who passed the Degree Examination either on the Cognate 4 or the Ordinary standard; so that only 20 per cent. of them failed. No students took Honours in a subject in which they had failed at the Leaving Certificate Examination. 1 See footnote to Table IV.