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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    Table VII (a) shows that the average number of Higher Grade passes obtained at the Leaving Certificate examination at first sitting was highest among those who afterwards graduated with Honours, and that there is no difference between the averages of the other two groups. The distributions given in Table VII (), and shown graphically in fig. 1, indicate clearly the superiority of the Honours group in this respect and the similarity between the other two groups. Table VII (y) shows that the mean number of failures in degree examinations increases as the number of Leaving Certificate Higher Grade passes decreases. If the number of such passes is very large, the number of failures is likely to be small, whereas with no Higher Grade passes or one Higher Grade pass a large number of failures is common. The number of failures among those with 2 or 3 Higher Grade passes varies considerably. If Table VII (8) be compared with Table VII (y) it will be seen that of the 205 failures recorded against students who had gained 3 Higher Grade passes in the Leaving Certificate examination, no fewer than 103 are due to 14 individuals: the average for the remainder is very little over one failure per student.