Russian USE and olympiads as instruments for university admission selection

Anatoly Peresetsky and Misak Davtian
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Misak Davtian: ICEF HSE, Moscow

Applied Econometrics, 2011, vol. 23, issue 3, 41-56

Abstract: The paper considers efficiency of the Russian Unified State Exam (USE, or EGE, Russian version of SAT), and results of «olympiads» — national students’ contests in economics, mathematics as predictors of ICEF HSE students’ academic achievements. Most courses in ICEF are taught in English, but USE in English is not a significant predictor. USE in mathematics and Russian are significant predictors, but only USE in Russian is significant for the probability of drop-out. Olympiads’ winners demonstrate substantially better performance than other students.

Keywords: college admissions; Russian Unified State Exam; predicting GPA; ICEF HSE; LSE; GPA; predictive power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A22 C25 C53 I20 I21 I23 P36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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