INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Preparation for the national entrance examination is a major concern for hospital medical students. Many teaching materials are available to prepare for the urology module: faculty photocopies and general urology texts. The objective of this study was to determine the selection criteria used by medical students to choose their urology teaching materials, in preparati...

BACKGROUND Entrance examination (admission test) is the most important and widely accepted method of student selection for admission into medical schools in Nepal. For many schools it is the only criterion of student selection. OBJECTIVES To examine relationships of scores obtained in schooling (grade 10 and 12), medical entrance and MBBS professional examinations in a cohort to identify pred...

CONTEXT The relationship between the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Achievement Test (COMAT) series of subject examinations and the Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination-USA Level 2-Cognitive Evaluation (COMLEX-USA Level 2-CE) has not been thoroughly examined. OBJECTIVE To investigate the factors associated with performance on COMAT subject examinations and how COMAT scor...

critical language assessment (cla) argues that language testing is a form of social practice and an agent of cultural, social, educational as well as ideological agendas. as such this article scrutinized the power that different groups of people including, teachers, students and their parents own at the levels of developing, administrating and interpreting iranian university entrance examinatio...