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Science 23 February 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5815, pp. 1080 - 1081
DOI: 10.1126/science.1136618
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Education Forum

ASSESSMENT:
Standardized Tests Predict Graduate Students' Success

Nathan R. Kuncel1 and Sarah A. Hezlett2

Standardized admissions tests are valid predictors of many aspects of student success across academic and applied fields.

1Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

2Personnel Decisions Research Institutes, 650 Third Avenue South, Suite 1350, Minneapolis, MN 55402, USA.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: kunce001{at}umn.edu

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