Education is considered as the most important step towards achieving any
goal in many technological eras. It is also directly linked with an individual’s wellbeing and personality (Tabroni et al., 2022).
Medical professionals around the world are tasked with the responsibility of
graduating well-educated and competent graduate medical student. This desired
outcome can be achieved by ensuring satisfactory academic performance and
academic success (Stadler et al., 2021).
Many medical students face different academic difficulties in which they are
unable to meet the academic standards set for preclinical or clinical stages of the
course. So, it is important to explore how medical students make sense of their
academic difficulties, because their beliefs about the causes of their difficulties
influence how they treat with support processes and remediation programs
(Kirtchuk et al., 2022).
Academic factors affect academic performance include Classroom
attendance, prior academic achievement (i.e., GPA or grade-point average) and the
concepts of self-regulated learning (SRL) (Kirtchuk et al., 2022).
Classroom attendance have a great impact on academic performance. It is an
important issue for both students and their lecturers. So, the association between
students’ class attendance and academic performance had been the subject of
several studies in a wide variety of courses (Elbilgahy et al., 2021).
For students, class attendance is an important factor in developing
competence, which create a positive relationship with higher academic
performance of the student. So, many studies identify that classroom attendance is