2023/11/07 by Tolessa, Biratu
#Academic preparedness #CGPA #UEE
paper · doi:10.20372/star.v8i2.04
The purpose of this study was to see if there is a statistically significant relationship between Ethiopian university entrance examination results (UEE) and cumulative grade point average (CGPA) at graduation for three-year programs. A correlation study design was employed, and a simple random sampling technique was used to select 23 programmes, which consisted of 570 male and 345 female students out of the 43 three-year programmes with a total of 628 male and 448 female students. The results of the study indicated that even though there was a positive relationship between UEE and CGPA, it was found that the relationship between the two variables was non-linear, and thus UEE alone was statistically insignificant to predict CGPA. It was also identified that UEE, together with the gender and field of study (programme) variables, has a statistically significant relationship with CGPA. Thus, it has been concluded that using UEE as the only variable for predicting students’ success in CGPA is misleading; as such achievements could be affected by a number of other variables.