“…Considerable interest has been focused on possible relationships between n Ach and academic achievement or intellectual ability. Mayo & Manning (94) found that n-Ach scores on Hurley's (75) IPIT were highly correlated with achievement themes elicited by their own cartoon measure of n Ach. They reported, however, only low and nonsignificant correlations between the criterion course grade in an aviation structural mechanics course and the combined n-Ach measures among naval recruits when scores on the Naval General Classification Test were partialed out.…”