Table 4.
Summary statistics of GPA and final exam performance
| GPAa | Final exam question category | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam format and gender | Mean ± SEM | FE total (%) | CR total (%) | MC total (%) | MC lower (%) | MC higher (%) |
| MC (242) | 3.30 ± 0.025 | 63.82 ± 0.68 | 61.97 ± 0.85 | 64.23 ± 0.71 | 66.46 ± 0.74 | 59.54 ± 0.82 |
| MC+SA (164) | 3.20 ± 0.035 | 67.34 ± 0.13 | 67.27 ± 1.00 | 67.35 ± 0.87 | 68.76 ± 0.89 | 64.40 ± 1.05 |
| Male (141) | 3.25 ± 0.039 | 67.10 ± 0.39 | 63.95 ± 1.13 | 67.80 ± 0.93 | 69.19 ± 0.95 | 64.88 ± 1.14 |
| Female (182) | 3.29 ± 0.029 | 64.18 ± 0.78 | 64.34 ± 0.97 | 64.14 ± 0.82 | 66.05 ± 0.86 | 60.14 ± 0.93 |
aGPA (mean ± SEM) is based on smaller sample sizes (MC: 231; MC + SA: 155; male: 129; female: 176) of students who reported their start-of-semester GPA. Final exam performance (mean ± SEM) is reported as percent of total for the different performance categories: FE total (total final exam score), CR total (3 CR questions), MC total (all 90 MC questions), MC lower (61 lower-level MC questions), MC higher (29 higher-level MC questions).