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Graduate Record Examination Scores And Grade-Point Averages Of Graduate Students At The College Of The Pacific, Delbert Wesley King

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

There has been much concern as to the validity of the Graduate Record Examination in determining the ability of a student to do effective graduate work. Some hold that the Profile score is a necessary index of a person’s ability to do graduate work, while others believe there is no close relationship between the two There is also a feeling that students who have been out of school for many years are at a disadvantage when taking the Graduate Record Examination Profile Tests, and that some departments prepare their students better for the tests.

The lack of agreement as stated …