Skip to main content
. 2020 Jan 3;20:4. doi: 10.1186/s12909-019-1918-y

Table 2.

Educational Attainment and UCAT scores on entry to medical school

Variable Derivation Gateway SEMED Total
Mean Std. Dev N Mean Std. Dev N Mean Std. Dev N F P – Bonferroni
A level Total Points Total Score of all A-Levels taken, excluding General Studies. 24.32 4.319 490 29.63 4.618 2975 28.877 4.9376 3465 568.36 0.00
Z score in year of qualification for the 3 best A-levels Z-score of the total score of the 3 best A levels within a HESA qualification year −0.898 0.885 490 0.231 0.7970 2970 0.0708 0.901 3460 821.5 0.00
UCAT TOTAL score 2384.8 230.25 540 2633.9 217.2 3675 2601.9 234.2 4215 611.0 0.00
UCAT TOTAL Z-score Z-score using mean and SD from the admission year for all candidates − 0.212 0.837 540 0.6916 0.785 3665 0.5756 0.848 4205 612.3 0.00