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 educationwas on a technical hold. With the online classes around it became difficult for the students to imbibe certain basic conceptsof knowlede and they had to instead mug-up a lot of portions. All these also led to a deviation from the normal teacherstudentrelationship. As a consequence it affected the grades a student obtained during the time of lockdown.Hence thisstudy with the ojectives to assess the psychological impact of lockdown on students,comparative assement of studentsbefore 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 “ComparativeAssessment of medical students before and during lockdown.”The students were selected by convenience sampling. Apretested semi structured questionnaire was sent through whatsapp and the data collected.It was entered in MicrosoftExcel 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 theperiod of lockdown,the number of students securing distinction has considerably fallen.Many felt that their reading is farbetter when at hostel and in the presence of companions in the college campus and with the teacher-student relationshiparound with in room classes.As a matter of fact majority of them wanted to come back to campus as soon as possible andresume normal in-room classes.