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In preparing university courses it may be necessary to accept a common initial achievement by students well below that which is suggested by the A-level papers they have taken. This is in many cases already university practice. A possible method for testing knowledge at this lower level is described here with some results.
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Enquiry into the Flow of Candidates in Science and Technology into Higher Education (HMSO, 1968).
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O'CONNELL, S., WILSON, A. & ELTON, L. Preknowledge Survey for University Science Entrants. Nature 222, 526–528 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222526a0
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