Comparative Analysis of The Performance of Students in Mock Examination to The Final Examination in Directorate of Non-Nuc Funded Programs, University of Jos, Nigeria

Abstract

The study compared the performances of students in mock examination against the final examination and tried to establish if there is a relationship between student’s performances in both mock and the final IJMBE, in Directorate of Non-NUC Funded Programs, University of Jos, Nigeria. Using systematic random sampling technique and a sample size of 100, students were selected at random across four subject areas which include; Government, Chemistry, Christian Religious Studies (.C.R.S) and Economics. It was established that there was a difference in the performance of the students in the final IJMBE compared with their performance in the mock examination in terms of percentage pass. C.R.S recorded 68.00% pass in mock and 84.21% in the final exam, Government recorded 84.21% as against 82.00% in mock, Economics 61.11% as against 56.25% in mock, and Chemistry, 33.33% as against 18.52% in mock. It was also established through the Pearson Product Moment Correlation and t-test statistics that a relationship exists between student’s performance in mock examination and final IJMBE. Most of the students who passed the mock examination also passed the final IJMBE, while very few of them who failed the mock also passed the final IJMBE. Those who failed both the mock and final IJMBE were very few too. It however recommended that the practice of conducting the mock examination should be upheld and the questions for the mock examination be adequately moderated to ensure that they are up to the standard of final IJMB examination.