Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228176 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP19/28
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD Centre for Economic Research, Dublin
Abstract: 
We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are particularly predictive of achieving a first-class honours degree and of high achievement in STEM courses.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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