In addition to the Orientation Week tests, the University Auditorium is the
 scene of many of the exams taken during the first two years of college.


 PLACEMENT AND ABILITY TESTS

 All freshmen entering the University are required to take a battery of five
placement tests covering general ability, English, social studies, natural scien-
ces, and mathematics. This battery is similar to the one offered each spring in
the Florida high schools. Freshmen who have taken the entire battery within
the last two years will be exempt from repeating it at the University, and
scores made in high school will be used in college.
 Information for Those Who Will Take Tests .
 The placement test battery (for those not exempt as stated above) will be
given the first day of Orientation. All materials will be supplied at the test-
ing room. Those freshmen who have to take the tests will automatically be
placed in groups scheduled for this project. The Group Counselors will see
that the members are told when and where to report for testing. About five
hours are needed for the administration of these tests. One or two tests will
be given in the morning and three or four in the afternoon.
 The tests are so general in nature and cover such wide subject areas that
special study or review is not usually very helpful. A thorough high school
background is the best preparation. The importance of doing one's best on
these tests cannot be over-emphasized. The test results will be entered on the
permanent record cards and will accompany the records wherever they go.
Actually, the results will be put to an immediate use because the registration
counselors consider them when talking with the student about his college
courses. Problems of electives, number of courses, outside work, and possible
fields of major interest will be discussed in relationship to placement test
standings. Employers in business and industry are giving an increasing empha-
sis to placement test scores as measures of potential success.
 Testing Information for All Students . .
 All persons in the Orientation Program will. take a college-level ability test.
The results of this test will be used primarily to assist in planning the educa-
tional and professional program beyond the freshman year, where measures at
a higher level than those given by the placement tests are needed. As in the
case of the placement tests, students will automatically be grouped so that this
test will be taken in the Orientation Program. Groups will be informed by
their Group Counselors when and where to report for testing. All materials
will be supplied. Total time for the project will be about ninety minutes.