چکیده (انگلیسی):

Students who have excelled academically in the pastare regarded as having a greater chance of
performing successfully in subsequent examinations. However, this argument is being questioned
with regard to enrollees onto the Bachelor of Laws at the School of Law of Makerere University in
Uganda. This study sought to obtain an understandin g of this issue using administrative data of
568 Bachelor’s of Law graduates of Makerere Univers ity during the period 2010-2012. A
combined weighted score for the enrollees granted o n admission to the program and their
Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) on graduation were adopted as measures of their prior
academic qualifications and academic achievement, r espectively. An assessment of the enrollees’
academic achievement is made using summary statistics. The bearing of prior academic
qualifications on the academic achievement was investigated using a robust regression,
controlling for student’s characteristics, gender, nationality, and year of enrollment. A median
CGPA of 3.16 in the results points to a “lower seco nd” class degree obtained by a considerable
number of graduates in the program. In the multivar iate assessment, high scores on entry to the
program were significantly associated with high aca demic achievement (p < 0.01). These findings
confirm enrollees’ prior academic qualifications as : 1) a predictor of academic achievement on
the program and 2) thus, an indisputable measure for assessing the competence of candidates
suitable for admission to the program