For 225 undergraduates, scores on an untimed experimental short form of the Wonderlic Personnel Test were correlated .285 with grades. Three-week predictive validity against the Wonderlic test was .545 (n = 86). Three-week test-retest and alternate-form reliabilities for the short form were .658 and .722 (ns = 86, 85), respectively. The untimed short form is not judged to be superior to the original Wonderlic test in an academic setting.
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