Studying the Relationship between Students' Performance in Scientific Examination and Their Academic Achievement in Third Year of High School

Every year, large amount of money is spent on production and application of academic advancement and entrance exams to special schools. They have both negative and positive impacts. The purpose of the current research is to study relationship between students' performance in scientific exam and their academic achievement in third year of high school in Shiraz, Iran. The statistical population for this study includes the entire students, both male and female, who have been graduated from high school in 2010-2011 academic years in Mathematics and Physics (MP), Experimental Science (SE) and Human Science (HS) from district two of Shiraz Education Organization. The number of students in our sample was 2151 including 1145 students in the field of MP, 779 in SE, and 218 in HS. Of the whole population, 1533 were females and the remaining (618) were male.