Changing Student Perception of an Online Integrated Structured Clinical Examination During the COVID-19 Pandemic [Letter]

Changing Student Perception of an Online Integrated Structured Clinical Examination During the COVID-19 Pandemic [Response to Letter]

“…Hazell highlights that mock examinations themselves reduces exam stress among students beyond exam format (in-person or online). 2 In our majority online examination-naïve participants, it is possible that the experience which combines a mock examination and virtual platform use will improve overall exam anxiety. However, the change scores in Questions 5 and 6 in Table 2 specifically address the online nature of assessments and we had asked two versions of these questions – “If you do not do well” in Question 5 and “If you do well to” in Question 6 to parse the relevance of the examination outcome of students sitting these high stakes examinations if they were indeed conducted online.…”