The validity of Iran’s national university entrance examination (Konkoor) for predicting medical students’ academic performance
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The validity of Iran’s national university entrance examination (Konkoor) for predicting medical students’ academic performance
BACKGROUND In Iran, admission to medical school is based solely on the results of the highly competitive, nationwide Konkoor examination. This paper examines the predictive validity of Konkoor scores, alone and in combination with high school grade point averages (hsGPAs), for the academic performance of public medical school students in Iran. METHODS This study followed the cohort of 2003 ma...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Education
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1472-6920
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-12-60