DRAFT EXAM SOON
Get an 'A' or win beret
If I bought some shoes one year, three times as many the next year and five pairs the third year, how many pairs did I buy the second year if I bought 21 pairs altogether.
By Joan McCabe
Would you believe 12? If not, you had better brush up on your high school mathematics before you take the Selective Service Draft Deferment Test.
THE TEST WILL be given for the first of three times Saturday, May 14. Interested KU men must obtain an application through the registrar's office, 120 Strong Hall, and mail the application for a test information bulletin Saturday. Any request postmarked later than Saturday may not be honored.
As the date of the first exam on campus draws near student speculation and the stock of student study guides in area bookstores increase. Most of the bookstores in Lawrence offer books to aid students in their study for the exam at a variety of prices.
Most of the publications present sample questions with the same format as those questions which will be presented in the four and one-half hour test.
The questions are all multiple choice and the scoring will be based upon the number of questions which a student is able to answer correctly.
THE MATERIAL from which the questions are drawn is based on the average student's high school preparation for college rather than actual college subject matter.
The exam will not be the sole determinant of a student's eligibility for deferment and the scores will be made available only to the Selective Service Board.
The test is similar to the Iowa Test of Educational Development and the National Merit Scholarship Test. If you have taken either of these the draft deferment test will look familiar to you.
IT IS NOT a mandatory examination but has been recommended for all students as a means to rank all students throughout the country according to a single standard rather than by class standing alone.
The Selective Service College Qualification Test is designed to examine your ability to read with understanding and to solve new problems by using your general knowledge.
It is suggested in several of the study guides that the student find the natural divisions of the test and set an arbitrary limit for each of the sections based on the relative difficulty of the questions.
In answering the questions in each of the sections, it is recommended that you go through the entire section quickly, answering only those questions of which you are certain.
SHOULD YOU come to a question which gives you trouble, skip it for the moment and go on. Mark the choices you feel are the most likely possibilities before you continue. Go back to those questions which you found difficult after you have completed the rest of the section.
Try not to leave any blanks. You will not be penalized for incorrect answers—Guess—and let the law of averages work for you, if you do not know the answer.
Remember, in multiple choice questions there is a reason for every choice which is given.
Some of the choices could be logical answers and are designed to distract you. There are also several alternative answers but only one which would be the correct answer under all circumstances.
SOME OF THE questions, according to the official description of the test by the Selective Service Department, are based upon reading passages, charts, tables or graphs. To answer these questions you will need not only to understand the reading passage, etc., but also to apply general principles in the field of knowledge involved.
In other questions you will have to solve problems based on the meanings of words and their relationships to other words.
There are also mathematical problems designed to test your
ability to comprehend and use numerical relationships.
TO AVOID the possibility of any unauthorized persons taking the test, each applicant will be fingerprinted when he reports for the exam.
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Two pencils, number two lead, an official document, preferably the Selective Service Registration Certificate, and a ticket of admission with the test center address card are required for entrance to the examination room.
Daily Kansan Thursday, April 21, 1966
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Applications may be obtained in the Dean of Men's office. All applications should be returned to the Dean of Men's office by April 27.