[The prediction of academic success/failure in a school for professional nurses]

Before being admitted to nursing schools students are very often exposed to selection tests. Use and predictivity of tests is widely debated in the literature with an overall agreement on their usefulness. Some data on the predictivity of the tests are presented, based on the final results of first year nursing students. The selection consisted of five written and one oral test (educational and previous professional qualifications were also considered). Students who performed well on oral and general information written tests reported good results on first year final examinations.