This study attempts to determine relationships among the understanding of English syntactic patterns, reading achievement and grade point average among students at Bronx Community College (New York). The students used in the study were 124 entering freshmen who scored below 60 on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test, and who were enrolled in the reading…

Factors which relate to academic success for university freshmen were investigated. Objectives were to: determine which of six independent variables were most highly related to and predictive of a 2.0 (C) cumulative grade point average (GPA), the dependent variable, for two consecutive quarters; determine which combination of factors could most…