The correlation between subject choice and UKCAT/BMAT performance

Thread Starter The correlation between subject choice and UKCAT/BMAT performance Follow 9 hours ago 9h ago Quote: Originally Posted by nexttime TSR tends to actively discourage further maths as some med schools don't accept it/4 A-levels is too many. Doesn't seem to be a problem for those that do take it though. Very interesting, but my gut feeling is that those doing FM are self selecting high achievers too, as would invariably be a 4th A level. And cannot remove the confounding variable of schools that do not allow students to sit 4 A levels, which is more likely to be the lower performing schools, hence skewing results as even though the UCAT is better at flattening out WA differences than A levels, results are still affected by gender, age, social class, ethnicity and education. And surely those that do not offer A levels at all would need to be taken out of the equation as they are ...
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