Combined Verbal and Quantitative GRE scores were obtained from the records of 24 former students of a master's degree program (from a total of 128 students) who had successfully completed a doctorate in psychology or who had withdrawn from a psychology doctoral program. Success rate by classification with the GRE was calculated using both a cut-off of 1000 and a cut-off of 1100. The results indicated a high false negative rate, that is, students whose GRE scores would not predict success but who obtained a Ph.D.
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