The phrase "fifth year student" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a student who is in their fifth year of a particular level of education, such as high school or college. Example: "As a fifth year student at university, Sam was expected to have a strong understanding of the subject matter."
The boy, named locally as fifth year student Bailey Gwynne, was taken to Royal Aberdeen Hospital with serious injuries shortly after emergency services arrived at the school on Tuesday lunchtime.
General linear model regression analysis indicated a significant difference (B = −3.203 p = 0.001, 95% confindence interval −5.093 to −1.314) in mean attitudinal scores between the two category of classes with the fourth and fifth year student indicating an average of 3.203 less attitudinal score as compared to the first, second and third year students.
Fifth year students achieved a mean score of 81%.
Response rates were as follows: 303 (54.2%) from current medical students: 50 (58.1%) first year students, 44 (65.7%) second year students, 51 (51.0%) third year students, 56 (54.9%) fourth year students, 49 (51.6%) fifth year students, and 53 (48.6%) sixth year students; and 74 (27.2%) from residents.
Subjects consisted of 559 medical school students from one urban medical school (86 first year students, 67 second year students, 100 third year students, 102 fourth year students, 95 fifth year students, and 109 sixth year students) and 272 residents who recently graduated from the same medical school (within three years) totaling 831 subjects altogether.
The percentage of females within each group was as follows: first year students (14.2%), second year students (11.4%), third year students (19.6%), fourth year students (12.5%), fifth year students (16.3%), sixth year students (11.3%) and residents (6.8%); overall percentage was 12.7%.
In all 167 completed questionnaires were collected from 90 fourth year students and 77 fifth year students.
The age range for first year students was 17 22 years and for fifth year students was 21 26 years.
Gain of fourth year students was slightly higher at 34% than that of fifth year students (31%).
Interviews were scheduled at the convenience of students and took place during students' seventh (for fourth year students) or ninth (for fifth year students) semester of study.
