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ID134894
Title ProperDo college entrance examination scores predict undergraduate GPAs
Other Title Informationa tale of two universities
LanguageENG
AuthorChi, Wei ;  Bai, Chong-En ;  Qian, Xiaoye
Summary / Abstract (Note)Each year, millions of Chinese high school students sit the National College Entrance Examination (CEE). For the majority of students, the CEE score is the single determinant in whether they gain admission into a college and to what college they enter. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether and how well the CEE score predicts college academic success. We also consider high school achievement and admission route in predicting college grades. We obtain administrative data on CEE and undergraduate GPAs from two Chinese universities with very different rankings. We find that, for both universities the CEE total score predicts undergraduate GPAs for all four years in college. Even the size of the estimates for CEE is similar for the two universities. High school achievement and admission routes are also significant predictors of college grades. However, we do not find consistent results as to which CEE subject test scores predict students' academic performance in college.
`In' analytical NoteChina Economic Review Vol.30, No. ; Sep.2014: p.632-647
Journal SourceChina Economic Review 2014-09 30
Standard NumberChina