Abstract

DELGADO BRAVO, Pedro Luis; GARCIA FERNANDEZ, Francisco Lázaro  and  LARA CARDENTEY, Luciana. The academic index and its impact on the results of entrance exams to higher education. Rev. Mendive [online]. 2018, vol.16, n.1, pp. 110-121. ISSN 1815-7696.

In the article is analyzed the relationship among the academic index as value of the quality in the abilities and knowledge acquired by the students in the pre-university teaching and the average in the entrance test to the superior education. The fundamental objective was directed to determine the influence that exercises the academic index in the results of the students in the entrance exams and in the final average in the career grant for the continuation of university studies in Pinar del Río province, among the years 2016 and 2017. The study had a descriptive character, being used statistical methods that allowed to determine the contradiction among the results obtained by the students in the entrance test and its academic index and the questioning of this last one as a real and reliable value of the academic quality of the students that they opt for the continuity of university studies.

Keywords : Academic index; entrance test; pre-university teaching; I average of the entrance test.

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