Comparative Assessment of Academic Performance among Kims Medical Students before and during Lockdown:a Cross Sectional Study

Abstract

Background: With the advent of Covid[5], it became very difficult to cater to the 1.7 billion[6] students whose education
was on a technical hold. With the online classes around it became difficult for the students to imbibe certain basic concepts
of knowlede and they had to instead mug-up a lot of portions. All these also led to a deviation from the normal teacherstudent
relationship. As a consequence it affected the grades a student obtained during the time of lockdown.Hence this
study with the ojectives to assess the psychological impact of lockdown on students,comparative assement of students
before and during lockdown and the pattern of reading from home and college is of significance.
Methodology: A cross sectional study was done for a period of one month on medical students for “Comparative
Assessment of medical students before and during lockdown.”The students were selected by convenience sampling. A
pretested semi structured questionnaire was sent through whatsapp and the data collected.It was entered in Microsoft
Excel sheet,analysed using SPSS version 25 and findings were represented in the form of figures and tables.
Conclusion: Even though the number of students gaining first class and second class marks have increased during the
period of lockdown,the number of students securing distinction has considerably fallen.Many felt that their reading is far
better when at hostel and in the presence of companions in the college campus and with the teacher-student relationship
around with in room classes.As a matter of fact majority of them wanted to come back to campus as soon as possible and
resume normal in-room classes.