title: Academic performance of various categories of students admitted to Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi.
abstract: A retrospective study of 4 consecutive academic batches of students was conducted to analyse the performance level of students in 3 university examinations of MBBS. The students were divided into 3 categories based on the criteria of entrance into the medical college. The category I included students who entered through a tough pre-medical test, category II comprised those nominated by government and defence personnel and category III included the Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribe students. The results of the category I was remarkably better than that of II while that of category III was dismal. The last two categories had a large number of students leaving the college without completing their course resulting in 5.4% wastage of precious medical seats and psychological distress. Necessary remedial measures must be planned at the earliest.
authors.affiliation: Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Choudhry
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Garg
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Gaur
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Anand
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012570:School Admission Criteria / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012923:Social Class; D013332:Student Dropouts / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*