Lower entry standards linked to GPhC exam failure rates

摘要

Pharmacy students that join university courses with lower A-level requirements or through 'clearing' are more likely to fail the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration assessment at their first sitting, figures compiled by the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists (GHP) show. The GHP used the Freedom of Information (Fol) Act to obtain details from pharmacy schools on the A-level performance of student entrants (mean and median score of three A-levels) and the proportion of their student intake entering through clearing. It matched these data against figures published by the GPhC on the performance of students in the final registration assessment by school.