Smartphone app can predict students' grade point average


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 28 May 2015

STUDENTS, LISTEN UP: Your smartphone (app) can predict how well you do in your exams.

Developed by researchers at Dartmouth College and the University of Texas at Austin, the app in question, smartGPA is accurate to within 0.17 of a point. 

The app's data – gathered via monitoring all smartphone use from physical activity to time spent sleeping – is analysed via machine learning algorithms and, once periodic self reporting from users is factored in, is unnervingly accurate in predicting grades. 

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