Summary.Quantitative assessments of the school, employment and further education records of over 400 secondary modern school boys and girls were intercorrelated and subjected to factor analysis. Significant relationships were found between school performance, employment and further education variables and the faotor analysis emphasized the importance of ‘personality’ variables in connection with girls' employment. An attempt was made to assess the value of the various record card items for the prediction of vocational suitability by studying their correlation with the important variable,employment score. It was concluded that subject assessments were the most useful and in this connection the ‘academic’ subjects seemed preferable to the ‘practical’ ones. Assessments involving groups of subjects were, perhaps, better still and there was evidence to suggest that an overall assessment of performance in a school year (particularly the third or fourth year) might well be the best indic