Part 3, SUMMARYThe relationship between external examination results at school and performance at university has prompted a good deal of comment and a certain amount of research. This study examines this relationship in detail for a particular subject, economics, which has seen the most rapid expansion in the numbers of A-level candidates since the institution of the a.c.E. in 1951, by tracing the performance of students passing through a single British university over a IS-year period. In view of the frequent observation that, in general, school study of economics scarcely helps university performance in the same subject, the authors incorporated into their multiple correlation analysis, in addition to the commonly employed types of data on the students, certain specially collected details relating to their school background. The results throw light on a number of associations between particular characteristics of students and their performance in economics at university. 1968]

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