Draft Test

Across the nation, some 175,000 college students took time out from their preparations for final exams to take another kind of test. In more than 1,000 classrooms they shuffled nervously to their seats, placed their thumbprints on their answer sheets (to prove that they were not being represented by ringers), and settled down to answer 150 multiple-choice questions* in three hours. Their scores, along with their college grades, will help to determine how they can best be used in their country's service.

In June and July, about 300,000 more students will take the test. Then it will be up to local draft boards to decide which ones are to continue their education. But from Major General Lewis B. Hershey, selective service director, came one note of caution: no longer could students expect that 70% of the nation's million-odd draft eligibles now in college will be deferred. The new estimate: about 50%.

*Sample questions:

Precision of wording is necessary in good writing; by choosing words that exactly convey the desired meaning one can avoid: a) duplicity, b) incongruity, c) complexity, d) ambiguity, e) implications.

Fifty votes are cast in an election for class president, in which five candidates are running. V is elected with 27 votes and Z is last with 3 votes. If no two candidates received the same number of votes, what is the minimum number of votes that W, who came in second, could have received? a) 5, b) 6, c) 7, d) 8, e) 9.

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