The UKCAT-12 study: educational attainment, aptitude test performance, demographic and socio-economic contextual factors as predictors of first year outcome in a cross-sectional collaborative study of 12 UK medical schools.

Prior educational attainment and its relation to medical school performance Overall there was a highly significant correlation between prior educational attainment (zEducationalAttainment) and OverallMark (r = .362, n = 3432, P <.001), which was significantly stronger (z = 3.76, P <.001) for SQA qualifications (r = .464, n = 715, P <.001, 95% CI .406 to .522) than for GCE qualifications (r = .331, n = 2,717, P <.001, 95% CI .298 to .364), the relationships being shown in Figure 2 .

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Effects upon overall score were estimated with a regression model in which there were significant effects of three best A-level grades (beta = .205, P <.001) and secondary school-level average points (beta = −.085, P = .005), and an almost significant effect of selective secondary schooling (beta = −.056, P = .059), the fitted regression lines being shown in Figure 3 a.

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