The purposes of this study were to investigate the predictive validity of the GRE Advanced Psychology Test and to assess the effects of program area on the relationship between test scores and students' grades. Test scores were significantly correlated with grades for the entire sample of 293 (r = .41, p < .01) but did not predict grades similarly for all program areas. The correlations obtained for each program area were .10 (n = 95) for clinical psychology, .56 (n = 71, p < .01) for counseling psychology, .39 (n = 58, p < .01) for school psychology, and .48 (n = 69, p < .01) for general/experimental psychology.
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