The Impact of Relationship between Socioeconomic Status of the Nation-Wide Exam Applicants and Educational Performance In 2010

Higher education is one of the paths of changing social class, finding job, marriage and other social life improvement in Iran. To enter to Iranian universities and colleges, all candidates must sit in the nation-wide exam. The aim of this paper is to investigate candidate’s ranks and their socio- economic status. The methodology and aim of this research is Explanation and secondary analysis respectively. The statistical population eligible to choose major, in the year 2010, has been 1099193 applicants which organized by National Organization for Educational Testing (NOET). The sampling method is cluster sampling with the sample size of 500 applicants in three clusters high, medium and low ranks. For analyzing data, descriptive and inference statistics (T - tast, F - test, x2) were used by SPSS software. The results show: 1) Socio- economic status has positive effects on educational performance. 2) The applicants who belong to high socio-economic status had better ranks. 3) The applicants who live in developed areas, small family number, high income and high parent’s education had better ranks in nation-wide exam.