Summary: Pass Rate of 1st year to 2nd year is approximately 30-50%. The statistics is not disclosed officially. I calculated it by myself, because it is not disclosed but I thought it is informative.

The statistics is not disclosed officially. But I think it is informative. Thus I calculated it by myself. I can only find small number of people in a meaningful group. If I can access the whole 1st year students the number is more accurate, but obviously I can not access such data. Still I feel the numbers below represent reality well.

Passing Rates of 1st year to 2nd year: (from 1st semester to 3rd semester via 2nd semester)

• Group 6(1st year students in 2013/2014): Pass rate=30%(=4/13)
• There were 13 people. (their nationalities are here).
• 4 people passed to 2nd year. (1 Israel, 1 Japanese, 1 Nigerian, 1 Spanish)
• 6 people failed, and at least 3 people quited.
• Japanese(1st year students in 2013/2014): Pass rate=50%(=3/6)
• There were 6 people.
• 3 people passed to 2nd year.
• 3 people failed.

Note: 2 out of 3 passed students join intense summer course for anatomy and histology, which was held for 2 month in July and August thus they lost their summer vacation entirely. Furthermore it cost additional 3,500USD. They took the exams course at the end of August and they passed the both exams Anatomy and histology. There were one more person who took this summer course but unfurtunately he failed even after he sacrificed his summer and that amount of money.

Passing Rates of 3rd semester to 4th semester:

• Group 6: Pass rate=100%(=4/4) total pass rate=30%(4/13)
• 4 people passed to 4th semester.(1 Israel, 1 Japanese, 1 Nigerian, 1 Spanish)
• 0 people failed.
• Japanese Pass rate=66%(=2/3) total pass rate=33%(2/6)
• There were 3 people.
• 2 people passed to 2nd year.
• 1 people(person) failed.

In my opinion this pass rate is too low. I can not believe why it is left intact. The school authority should take some measures against it. And most wrong I think is, they never disclose these statistics; I think many people may start to think something could be wrong in the school system by seeing this statistical number. (to be honest I have felt sometimes some teachers are intentional to downgrade and even fail us: an Example in Anatomy and Histology.

"Pass" means that you pass all pre-requisite subjects: Anatomy, Histology, Biology, Chemistry, Biophysics. If you fail any one of them you need to repeat a year because you can not take some subjects next year. For example, if you fail biophysics, you can not take physiology next year, and so on.