The objective of the present study was to estimate the psychometric properties of the adapted Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire on academic performance (PTQ-RA) in the Colombian population, for this convenience sample of 300 university students of different careers, universities and strata of legal age from Bogotá with an average age of 21,67, of which 65.9% (196) were women, while 34.7% (104) were men, most of the students belonged to the tenth semester and were studying for an undergraduate degree in psychology. A degree of agreement between judges was found according to Kendall´s W of 0,75 with p<0.005. An EFA was carried out with RStudio program, finding that 9 of the factors indicate that a single factor would explain 47% of the variance, CFA is also carried out, the general fit of the unifactorial model was good X2 (27) = 184.256, p<0.001, there is an internal consistency with ordinal Alpha greater than or equal to 0.87 in all items. Finally, the test showed low significant correlations with GPT, GTQ questionnaires and DASS21 subscale.