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A STUDY ON IDENTIFING FACTORS AFFECTING ON STUDENT’S GPA : A CASE STUDY IN THE
FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WAYAMBA UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA
regression model as well. Though, the first-year and senior university students:
preliminary analysis says the relationship do education students and lecturers
between the lectures and students is not perceive things differently? South African
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Also in the preliminary analysis, newcastle, Faculty of Education.
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combination of the student has only a critical incident technique to determine
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