How the Medicine and Science programmes can overcome the impacts of low SES secondary school educational disadvantage

Figures & data

Figure 1. Proportion of students within programme by secondary school quintile.

Table 1. Student distribution by secondary school quintile by programme.

Secondary school quintile	Medicine		Science
	N	%	N	%
1	9	1.2%	138	2.9%
2	45	6.0%	495	10.5%
3	78	10.4%	963	20.4%
4	171	22.8%	1395	29.5%
5	447	59.6%	1731	36.7%
Total	750	100.0%	4722	100.0%

Table 2. Repeated measure analysis: Impact of school quintile and year of study on academic achievement.

	Medicine					Science
Effect	Num DF	Den DF	F-value	Pr > F	Sig.	Num DF	Den DF	F-value	Pr > F	Sig.
School quintile	4	748	2.05	0.0851	n.s.	4	4713	1.35	0.2477	n.s.
Year of study	4	748	0.65	0.6247	n.s.	2	4713	3.83	0.0217	<.05
Quintile*Year	16	748	2.04	0.0094	< .05	8	4713	2.15	0.0285	< .05

Figure 2. Academic achievement by school quintile by year of study – Medicine.

Figure 3. Academic achievement by school quintile by year of study – Science.