This assumption was made for several reasons:- firstly, the dates of sitting of the examinations were unavailable; secondly, the first sitting was assumed to reflect a candidate's academic potential more accurately than subsequent sittings; and thirdly, medical and dental schools often only accept grades at first sitting as meeting entry requirements.
Because these are therefore relative improvements, it is difficult to assess finer details of the basis for improvement from repeated sitting of the examination.
Years later, I find myself sitting in an examination room contemplating a pair of dignity shorts.
Pinocchio sitting on an examination table pleads with his doctor to use him as a guinea pig for "any drug that's the opposite of Viagra".
One surprise came to me in the form of an 18-year-old boy, a drug dealer named John, whom I discovered sitting in my examination room intently rolling a joint.
So now I'm sitting in an examination chair in Dr. Shulman's/Dr.
Overall 44.8% (medical school range 34 to 56%) of the trainees sitting the examination were female (see Additional file 1).
The number of individual students sitting each examination was included within the item analysis data; this varied with each sitting, ranging from 277 to 347 students, with a total of 60,850 student-question interactions.
13 We grouped age at each admission to reflect age of onset of puberty (10 14 years), age of sitting secondary school examinations (15 17 years) and the legal age for buying alcohol (18 19 years).
Currently, only holders of recognized TCM degree(s) are eligible for sitting the examination.
Similarly, sitting an examination, be it written or clinical, provides feedback of a different, but equally powerful, type.
