S ummary . 139 university students and 118 students at a college of education were given the Eysenck Personality Inventory and a questionnaire relating to academic motivation and study methods. A correlational analysis of these scores in relation to academic performance at the end of the first year showed the superiority of introverts and students with good study methods. Introverts also tended to have better study methods, but this only partially explained their high academic performance. There was no relationship between neuroticism and attainment. A supplementary approach used an item‐analysis to identify the characteristics of successful students. From this analysis, items which identified good students were also positively related to stability and introversion.
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Entwistle et al. (1970) studied this question.