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within 70 seconds, give 1 point for time, etc. If the solution in (a) is accomplished in more than 7 moves, score for 

 moves; if within 7 or not within 4 moves give 1 point for moves, etc. 



Test K. Letter line. — Score each part, (a) or (b), as follows: For correct solution give 6 points; if the solution is 

 correct except for the reversal of two letters which are adjacent in the key, give 3 points. For a solution involving a 

 greater error, give points. If correct solution is given within the time limit, give credit for time as per table. 



Test L. Disarranged sentences. — If the subject gives a sentence considerably within the time limit, but with an 

 error, say, "Are you Bure you have the right word?" (or, "Are you sure you used all the words?" or, "Use just 

 the words given here"). "Look again and see." Then if subject gives a correct solution within the time limit, 

 score the item, 4-s(plus after suggestion), and take time to the giving of the correct solution. Score each part of test L 

 as follows: For failure to give a correct solution within the time limit give a score of points for that part. If a cor- 

 rect solution is given within the time limit, give credit for time as per table and for the solution as follows: Spontane- 

 ous correct solution, 5 points. Correct solution after suggestion, 2 points. 



Tesrt N. Controlled association (rimes). — Give credit for each part as follows: If no rimes are given, allow no 

 credit for the part. If one or more rimes are given, allow credit as per table — thus: One rime, 4 points; two rimes, 

 5 points; three or four rimes, 6 points; five or more rimes, 7 points. For each word given which does not rime, cut 

 off one point, provided no negative scores are given any part. If five rimes are given with no errors within the 

 time limit, give credit for time as per table. 



Test P. Ingenuity ( Terman.) — Amend the directions for test P so as to impose a time limit of 2 minutes on each 

 of the three parts, (a), (b), and (c), instead of allowing 5 minutes on (b) and (c). Give no credit for any part of the 

 test that is failed. For each part correctly solved give credit for time of solution as per table. 



Test T. Sentence construction. — Score each part as follows: If the three ideas are not combined so as to express a 

 a single thought, give no credit for the part. If the three ideas are connected in a single thought, but so as to make a 

 very poor sentence (poor in thought or ungrammatical), give 2 points. If the sentence is of medium quality (slight 

 errors in grammar allowed) give 3 points. If very good (strictly grammatical and showing superior thought) give 4 

 points. If any credit is given an item for quality, credit that item also for time as per table. 



Section 4. — Examiner's guide, second revision. 

 EXAMINER'S GUIDE 



FOR 



PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINING 

 IN THE ARMY. 



[Prepared especially for military use by the Subcommittee on Methods of Examining Recruits of the Psychology Committee of the 

 National Research Council. Revised by direction of the Surgeon General of the Army and printed by the Medical Department, U. S. A., 

 September 1917. Second revision, July, 1918.) 



I. Introductory Statement. 



1. PURPOSES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION. 



(a) To classify soldiers according to their mental ability, thus supplementing personnel records of occupational 

 qualifications and assisting with assignment in the Army. 



(6) To supply a mental rating for each soldier which shall assist personnel officers in building organizations of 

 equal or of appropriate mental strength. 



(c) To assist regimental, company and medical officers by careful examination and report on men who are not 

 responding satisfactorily to training, or are otherwise troublesome. 



(d) To assist officers of development battalion with classification, grading, training, and ultimate assignment of 

 men. 



(e) To assist in discovering men of superior mental ability who should be selected for officers' training camps, for 

 promotion or for assignment to special tasks. 



(/) To assist in discovering and properly placing men of marked special skill, as for example, observers or scouts 

 for intelligence service. 



(g) To assist in discovering men who are mentally inferior and who in accordance with degree of defectiveness 

 should be recommended for discharge, development battalions, labor organizations or regular military training. 



2. GENERAL PLAN OP EXAMINATION. 



(1) Segregation of men obviously illiterate. 



(2) Group examination alpha (for literates): 



Time, 40 to 50 minutes. 



Number, 100 to 200 men in a group. 



(3) Group examination beta (for illiterates and men failing in examination alpha): 



Tame, 50 to 60 minutes. 

 Number, up to 60 men in a group. 



(4) Individual examinations (for men failing in beta, or referred): 



Point-scale examination. 



Stanford-Binet examination. > Time, 15 to 60 minutes. 



Performance-scale examination. J 



Mechanical skill examination (supplementary). Time, 15 to 30 minutes. 



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