Year: 2020 | Month: August | Volume 11 | Issue 2

Consistency in Academic Performance of Students across Semesters with Reference to their CGPA

Rajan Welukar Shefali Pandya K.S. Bhanu
DOI:10.30954/2230-7311.2.2020.11

Abstract:

The entire world is going through a completely new and strange situation due to COVID-19 pandemic which has thrown the system of higher education out of gear. Final year/semester students are anxious about whether examinations will be conducted or not. There are contradictory opinions about this from various sections and stakeholders. Hence, purely due to academic curiosity, the present study was undertaken to ascertain whether there is any consistency of average performance of students over different semesters with their final CGPA. For this purpose, 253 engineering students were selected randomly. The study adopted the ex-post-facto method. The data were analysed using the t-test. It was found that (a) When students are coming to the university from a junior college in their first year of engineering, they are new to the system and its requirements and need time to adjust to a new system. Hence, the inclusion of first year performance does not show any consistency with the final CGPA (b) There is a consistency in average performance of the entire sample of students considered from Semester 2 to 7 and 3 to 7 with their final CGPA since the average performance of semesters 2 to 7 or semesters 3 to 7 does not show significant difference with the final CGPA. Therefore, if final year examination is not conducted, then the university can declare results on the basis of consistency in the average performance of either semesters 2 to 7 or 3 to 7 (c) The average of semesters 1 to 7, 4 to 7, 5 to 7 and 6 to 7, does not show consistency with the final CGPA of the total sample of students and (d) It implies that consistency matters in average performance of students over semesters 2 to 7 or 3 to 7 vis-à-vis final CGPA.

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