Show rT Give Students U Aptitude Tests Insight to Job Qualifications O having nn no amount amount of of time time for for m the By JEAN GALLACHER Are you wasting your Do you spend fruitless hours slaving away in hot chem labs when you are a in If planning a major has you balanced between the two horns of a drop up to Dean Pierson's office and get yourself The series of tests given include an I.Q. an interest a personality test to determine if you are and aptitude tests are given in all fields of greatest After the examiner has a bird's eye view of you he can advise you with a considerable degree of Not only are you instructed what to go but you are also enlightened upon what to The I.Q. test given is the Standard Gamma which so many of us have sly-slaved over during high school and early college Because of the danger of wrong interpretation of I.Q. scores many of us have taken numerous intelligence quizzes and never been informed as to our College-level students are given credit for having intelligence enough to allow for conditions which might make scores fluctuate and not to take a less than superior I.Q. rating as a Statistics prove the average college student's intelligence quotient to be about five or 10 points higher than those given on a strictly cross sectional It is found conclusively that high are always found in the but some high are also noted in lower brackets because of lack of training or lack of Low intelligence is never found in the professions or semi-professional fields because persons can never survive the training tests consist of mechanical dexterity motor reflex mathematical music art and others too numerous to The most popular and accurate test in the field of music is the Seashore This test does not test exclusively on training in the music but includes pitch and tone Absolute pitch can also be determined Many persons have absolute pitch who are not aware of the having nn no Many persons musical background can tell if something is flat or sharp but they do not know the of off at notes to call them Personality tests to determine psychoneurotic tendencies are good only if the person honest in tested is perfectly answering the questions The test consists of true-false questions as they apply to the Questions like 1 feel pain in my head several times a I love my mother I suffer from nausea I feel insecure in my I feel that persons are looking at me in a crowd at all I have often wanted to run away from I always tell the are Certain trick questions I always tell the truth will be answered in the affirmative by those who are trying to make a good impression but can be detected by the trained If too many of these trick questions are answered the examiner knows that the test is This test is for the good of the information is kept strictly After interests have been the student is tested in those things which he shows a definite The student is then advised on those things in which he shows greatest The other tests are also taken into consideration and any other personal qualifications which he might A great deal of accurate information may be gathered about a person this The which were previously given under the psychology department for a are now under the supervision of George A. dean of students and are given to regular students free of Veterans may obtain the advantages of these tests by applying to the veterans' and procuring an Testing of this sort has been under the jurisdiction of Dean Pierson since Since its beginning it has grown and accommodates as many students as possible at present there is a lack of facilities for such making it possible to test only about five persons per Correcting and interpreting the test data takes up the greatest amount amount of of time time for for m the exam Due to its this new experiment is definitely here to stay and as soon as Bible will be enlarged to take care of the increasing number of students interested in |