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EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE ETS PRINCETON, N. J.
College Board Guidance Services
May 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: GUIDANCE DIRECTORS
SUBJECT: 1965 PRELIMINARY SCHOLASTIC
APTITUDE TEST PROGRAM
The Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College
Entrance Examination Board will be administered on Tuesday,
October 19 and Saturday, October 23 of this year. The PSAT
is offered as an aid in the guidance of high school juniors
toward college. Its comparability to the Scholastic Aptitude
Test, which is required for admissions purposes by many colleges,
and its ready availability to schools particularly recommend it
for guidance use. The fee is $.75 for each student tested.
A Registration Form and the 1965 PSAT Announcement leaflet
have been sent to all secondary school principals. A copy of
the Announcement is enclosed for your information.
Richard W. Watkins
Program Director
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EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE ETS PRINCETON, N. J. 08540
April 1965
College Board Admissions Tests
Memorandum for: GUIDANCE DIRECTORS
Subject: Distribution Plans for the 1965-66 College Board Admissions Tests Publications
To insure early and adequate delivery of the 1965-66 publications for the College Board Admissions Tests, we plan to ship to you, by September 1, the following publications and materials:
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1965-66 Bulletin of Information for College Board Admissions Tests
A Description of the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test
A Description of the College Board Achievement Tests
College Board Score Reports: A Guide for Counselors and Admissions Officers
Your College Board Scores: Scholastic Aptitude Test, Achievement Tests
Registration Forms in envelopes
School Code Posters
Pad of Request Forms for Additional Score Reports
The quantity of materials you will receive in this shipment is based on the number of students from your school who took the tests during 1964-65. A substantial percentage is added, based on the expected increase in total test-takers from all schools. Since it is impossible to calculate an individual percentage increase for each school, a school that has an unusually large increase in the number of test-takers will need to order additional materials in the fall. The combination Shipment Notice/Order Form, enclosed in the shipment, will show the quantity of each publication sent to your school, and should be used to order additional materials as specified in the last paragraph of this memorandum.
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Schools that did not have any students take the tests in 1964-65 will receive one copy of each publication, three School Code Posters, and a pad of Request Forms for Additional Score Reports.
The following notes about the publications and materials to be shipped to you by September 1 may be helpful:
1. Each school will receive envelopes containing Registration Forms in a quantity equal to the number of Bulletins shipped, plus an appropriate additional supply. You will note that the Registration Form has been re-designed and should be considerably easier for students to complete than the 1964-65 version.
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2. Each school will receive three copies of a School Code Poster
with the school's College Board code number printed on it. This code
number will be the means for reporting the students' scores to their
schools. It is important, therefore, that the posters be prominently
displayed so that students can copy the correct code number onto their
Registration Forms. Additional blank posters, on which the school may
enter its College Board code number, may be ordered as described below.
3. To facilitate prompt issuance of score reports requested after
a student has submitted his Registration Form, each school will receive
a pad of Request Forms for Additional Score Reports. (Two of these forms
appear as pages in each Bulletin.) Any time a student asks the College
Board to send scores to colleges and scholarship programs not listed on
his Registration Form, the request should be made on this form.
Each shipment of Admissions Tests materials sent to schools will be
addressed to the Guidance Director. Since these late summer shipments
may arrive before your school opens for the fall term, we suggest that
you ask the school custodian to anticipate the arrival of the packages
and that you inquire about them when you return to school.
Later in September, schools that had candidates for College Board tests
in the past will receive information about the 1966 Supplementary Achieve-
ment Tests and a copy of the booklet, A Description of the College Board
Supplementary Achievement Tests.
The College Board wishes to provide enough copies of the booklets describing
the Scholastic Aptitude Test and the Achievement Tests, not only for the
students who will need them, but also for teachers whose students may be
taking Achievement Tests in their subject. Each year the Board hears of
many teachers who have not been aware of the booklets, and who, upon learning
about them, express an interest in reading them. It will be appreciated if
you will arrange to distribute the booklets to teachers as well as students.
If you require additional supplies of the descriptive booklets or any other
items, indicate the quantities in the "Additional Materials Required" column
of the Shipment Notice/Order Form. Return the first copy of this form after
September 1 to the College Entrance Examination Board, Box 592, Princeton,
New Jersey 08540, retaining the second copy for your files. Please allow
three weeks for delivery.
Margaret A. Thorne
Program Director
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SHAMASH SECONDARY SCHOOL
New Alwiyah - Baghdad
Tel. No. 91693
Shamash Preparatory School
Baghdad
New Alwiyah
Telephone 91693
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No.: 19 February, 1965
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To:
College Entrance Examination Board,
Box 592, Princeton, 08540,
New Jersey,
U.S.A.
and one College
Dear Sirs,
I have received the enclosed invoice in
duplicate about <del>two weeks ago</del>. The sum of <del>164.50</del> 187.50
dollars covering examination fees, <del>and</del> extra score
reports, has been remitted by <del>about one month</del>
<del>ago by</del> the Credit Bank of Iraq through their New
York correspondent, the First National City Bank
of New York, New York, for payment to you through
their Princeton correspondent. Kindly acknowledge
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As I informed you previously, the only
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Department in Baghdad and are settled in this way.
Yours faithfully,
A.S. Obadiah,
Principal.
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vice. Of course, we DID solicit permission to quote.
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Sacramento, California
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- May 20, 1961 List of Selected Publications, U.S. Office
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Ela-Vernon Consolidated High School, Lake Zurich, Ill.
"EXTREMELY HELPFUL"
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Anaconda High School, Anaconda, Mont.
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Mapleton High School, Mapleton, Oregon
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West Hempstead Schools, West Hempstead, N. Y.
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ERC EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CORPORATION
TEN CRAIGIE STREET . CAMBRIDGE 38 . MASSACHUSETTS
Appleton, Wisconsin
Telephone: Area Code 414 RE 3-5577
Director of Admissions: Edward J. Roberts
Private college, established 1847.
70% of students from out of state.
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Lawrence
College
600 Men
500 Women
ADMISSIONS
Requirements
No specific unit requirements, but 16 units recom-
mended, including the following:
English | 4 | Science | 2
Mathematics | 2 | Social Science | 2
Foreign Language | 2 | Electives | 2
SAT required.
Three Achievement Tests required: English and
two others.
Interview not required.
Application fee $10, not refundable.
Basis for Candidate Selection
Academic: Secondary school record
SAT and ACH scores
School's recommendation
Rank in upper half of class
Other: Character and personality strongly
emphasized.
Extracurricular participation important.
Admission Procedure
Normal sequence;
Take SAT in December or January of 12th year.
Take ACH by March of 12th year.
No deadline for filing admission application, but
advised by March 1.
Notification of action of Admissions Committee
beginning March 1 until class is filled.
College does not subscribe to Candidates Reply
Date Agreement.
Candidate must accept offer of admission within
two weeks of notification of acceptance and pay
deposit of $100, not refundable if candidate
subsequently withdraws.
College does not have Early Decision Program.
College does not have Early Entrance Program.
College participates in CEEB Advanced Placement
Program; degree credit may be granted on basis
of AP test.
Transfer students admitted in September; oc-
casionally in January and March.
Experience
530 men and 528 women applied for admission to
class entering fall 1962.
Of these applicants, 74% of men and 59% of women
were offered admission.
Of those offered admission, 48% of men and 52% of
women matriculated.
Size of freshman class (fall 1962): 191 men; 162
women.
19% of enrolled class came from independent
schools; 81% from public schools.
Secondary school class rank: 25% of men entering
fall 1962 ranked in top tenth of their secondary
school class. Summary:
Top tenth | Men
25% | Women
69%
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Top quarter | 62 | 93
Second quarter | 18 | 7
*Third quarter | 15 | 0
**Bottom quarter | 3 | 0
No rank | 2 | 0
| 100% | 100%
*Of these, 76% were from private schools.
**Of these, 83% were from private schools.
CEEB SAT scores: 23% of men entering fall 1962
scored between 500 and 549 on Verbal SAT.
Summary:
| Men
Verbal | Men
Math | Women
Verbal | Women
Math
750 and above | 1% | 1% | 1% | 1%
700-749 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 5
650-699 | 10 | 21 | 11 | 10
600-649 | 19 | 23 | 27 | 17
550-599 | 21 | 23 | 27 | 25
500-549 | 23 | 13 | 20 | 17
450-499 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 14
400-449 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 9
350-399 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2
300-349 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0
No score | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0
| 100% | 100% | 100% | 100%
Admissions Staff
Edward J. Roberts, Director
Patricia O'Connor, Associate Director
Rogelio S. Llerandi, Admissions Counselor
Reed Taylor, Admissions Counselor
Mrs. Lucille Biechler, Assistant to Director
FINANCIAL
Expenses
Inclusive fee (1962-63): $2,100 per year including
instructional costs; room and board; approved
extra-classroom activities; lab, social, and
health fees
This should be approximate total cost per year (not
including travel, books, supplies, and personal
expenses).
Other: Books and supplies: $60
Fraternity: $75 per year plus $25
initiation fee
Financial Aid
College participates in College Scholarship Service.
Scholarships:
112 freshmen had scholarship assistance (1962-63).
Deadline for filing scholarship application is
March 15; however, earlier in 12th year
advisable.
Financial aid applicants notified only after
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admission and then as soon as possible after
Aid Committee action.
Financial aid awarded on basis of need.
ACADEMIC
Accredited by North Central Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools; professionally by American
Chemical Society, National Association of Schools
of Music.
Faculty
Instructional Staff (1962-63): 113
Degrees held by faculty:
Doctors 54 Bachelors 13
Masters 46
Student-faculty ratio: 11 to 1
Curriculum
Degrees offered: A. B., B. Mus.
Majors offered:
Anthropology-Sociology Government
Art History
Biology Mathematics
Chemistry Music
Classics Philosophy
Economics Psychology
English Religion
French Russian
Geology Spanish
German Theatre-Drama
Required Freshman Studies course (Freshman
English) in which representative works in philosophy,
natural science, social science, art, and religion
are read and discussed. Sophomore Divisional
seminars in humanities, natural science, and social
science, for limited number of sophomores. Junior
departmental reading program. Asian Studies
Program. Tutorial or independent study. Honors
program. Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Comprehensive
examinations. Cooperative program in engineering
with three years at Lawrence and two at any approved
school of engineering; grants B. A. and B. S. degrees.
Program for secondary school teaching.
Library of 85, 662 volumes.
Academic Experience
3% of freshmen drop out for academic reasons.
35% of students go immediately on to graduate study;
after student has been out five years, this figure
increases to 60%.
Guidance Facilities
New students assigned to faculty advisers with whom
they may confer at any time. Advice may be sought
directly from one of the Deans. Dormitory coun-
selors. College psychologist.
Physical Education
Required during freshman and sophomore years.
Air Force ROTC available, but not required.
Convocation Requirements
Attendance required at convocation of students and
faculty held in chapel every other Thursday.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Athletics
Intercollegiate competition in football, basketball,
baseball, track and field sports, tennis, golf,
cross-country, swimming, wrestling, handball,
squash.
Intramural, interfraternity, and intersorority com-
petition for men and women.
Social Organizations
Six national fraternities with chapter houses.
Six national sororities with social rooms.
Between 55% and 60% of students join fraternities
or sororities.
Other Student Activities
Students entrusted with as large a share of control
over own affairs and behavior as they show them-
selves willing to accept and able to exercise prop-
erly. Weekly newspaper, literary magazine, publi-
cation reviewing college life with pictures. Women's
glee club, men's chorus, Choral Society, Lawrence
Singers, symphony orchestra, concert band.
Debating. Lawrence College Theatre. College FM
radio station.
REGULATIONS
Housing
All students live in dormitories or fraternity houses,
unless residents of Appleton.
97% of students live on campus.
Automobiles
Students not living with their families may not have
automobiles, unless they have special permission.
Other
Possession or use of alcoholic beverages not per-
mitted in any college building on campus.
GENERAL
Environment
Campus of 48 acres on banks of Fox River, short
distance from business section of Appleton (popula-
tion: 48, 411 - 1960 census), located 100 miles
north of Milwaukee and 180 miles north of Chicago.
Industrial city in center of agricultural region.
Air, bus, and rail service.
Administration
President: Douglas M. Knight, Ph. D., LL. D.
Registrar: Dorothy H. Draheim
Administrative Staff: 29
Calendar
Three-course, three-term system with classes be-
ginning September 23, 1963, and January 2 and
March 23, 1964.
Freshman orientation begins September 18, 1963.
ERC EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH CORPORATION
TEN CRAIGIE STREET . CAMBRIDGE 38 . MASSACHUSETTS
November 23, 1964
It will pay you to examine the material enclosed with this letter.
And we will pay you to examine the complete ERC College Admissions Data
Service. Yes, we will pay you.
But first, glance at the enclosed two-page sheet of unsolicited testimonials.
We could send you many dozens, but these are typical.
Second, look at the 8-1/2 x 11 specimen sheet from the College Admissions
Data Handbook. This sheet is from last year's Handbook.
Notice, in the upper left-hand corner, the name, address,
and telephone number of the Director of Admissions. It
was from him that we got the admissions data on his col-
lege so the data would be accurate and up to date: in
many cases more up to date than the college catalogue
itself.
Notice the kind of information about the college: the kind
you and your students and their parents want: the kind not
appearing in publications or college catalogues. Can I
have a car on campus? Is smoking allowed? Is ROTC required?
How about married students? Notice how clearly the informa-
tion is presented: not heavily encoded, nor heavily abbre-
viated; your students can read it, then talk to you about
the colleges.
Many colleges have us print up quantities of their Handbook
sheets for their use in answering inquiries about their
colleges! How's that for an endorsement?
Now look at the specimen sheet from the Guidance Counselor's Desk Calendar.
This sheet is from last year's Calendar. Notice the generous space for
appointments, notes, and memos. Notice the reminders at the bottom of the
pages: important dates and events for counselors to know about, listed
where they cannot be overlooked. This Calendar contains more than 300 pages,
printed on special paper, and wire bound so that it opens clear up and lies
flat on your desk when open. You cannot buy a calendar like this anywhere
for less than $5.50.
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One more thing: the complete ERC College Admissions Data Service includes
eight monthly mailings, October through May, each of 24 sheets (48 pages)
adding to and updating the information in the Handbook. So besides the
352 sheets (704 pages) in the Handbook, you get 192 new sheets (384 pages)
giving data on additional colleges and updating the information in the
Handbook. So besides being kept up to date, the Handbook grows throughout
the year!
We said we will pay you to look at these materials. We will. Note the
offer on the enclosed postcard. Send no money - just sign the card and
put it in the mail. We will send you the Handbook, in a custom-built
three-ring binder, and the Guidance Counselor's Calendar. Examine these
materials. Use them for ten days. See how they help you with one of your
most important and time-consuming responsibilities. If you do not think
this Service is worth the nonprofit price of $50.00 for the school year,
keep the Calendar, return the other materials to us, and we will cancel
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When you subscribe, we will send you the monthly mailings, beginning with
the new sheets for this October. And if you want an extra Calendar in-
cluded with your subscription, we will send one to you for an additional
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Sincerely,
⟦Phillip J. Rulon⟧
Phillip J. Rulon
Director of Research
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⟦JACK N. ARBOLINO⟧
Director of the
Advanced Placement Program
October 1964
Dear Sir:
Enclosed you will find a School Participation Form and a copy of the 1964-65
Guide to the Advanced Placement Program. The form is self-explanatory; the
Guide contains a concise description of the College Board's program for helping
high schools offer college-level courses to their best students. You will note that
for the first time this year the Guide includes a listing of the 1965 Advanced
Placement Conference sites and Chairmen.
I should like to call your attention to page 24 of the Guide, which carries a
summary of the procedure for administering the examinations. If your school is
planning to prepare any students for the examinations next May, we would appre-
ciate your filling out the form now and sending it to the Princeton address.
I should also like to call your attention to the fact that a newly revised edi-
tion of the Advanced Placement Program: Course Descriptions is out this year.
Page 21 of the Guide explains how to obtain copies of it.
If the Advanced Placement Program has not yet been made available to your
students and you would like to know more about it, please feel free to call on us
for further information.
Sincerely yours,
⟦Jack N. Arbolino⟧
Jack N. Arbolino
Advanced Placement Examinations
School Participation Form
1964-65
Shamash Secondary School
New Alwiyah, Baghdad 990210
Baghdad, Iraq
Schools planning to administer Advanced Placement
Examinations to their students in May 1965 are asked
to designate an Advanced Placement Examinations
Coordinator on this form. Schools that do not plan to
administer the examinations should not return the form.
The Coordinator will be responsible for making all
necessary arrangements for giving the examinations.
Upon return of this form, the Coordinator will be sent
two copies of Information for Coordinators. This leaflet
is intended to assist the Coordinator by providing him
with the examination schedule and detailed informa-
tion about the registration of candidates, ordering
copies of Bulletin for Students, the collection of fees,
and other arrangements for the examinations. No ad-
ditional order need be placed by the school to receive
Information for Coordinators.
Please complete this form and return not later
than December 4, 1964, to:
College Board Advanced Placement Examinations
Box 592
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
The Coordinator for this school's Advanced Placement Examinations is (please type or print):
Mr.
Mrs.
Miss. ⟦line⟧ Title ⟦line⟧
Principal's signature ⟦line⟧
COLLEGE BOARD ⟦ceeb logo⟧ NEWS
Published by the College Entrance Examination Board, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, N. Y. 10027
Regional Offices: MIDWEST, 625 Colfax Street, Evanston, Ill. 60201; NORTHEAST, 475 Riverside Drive,
New York, N. Y. 10027; SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn. 37375; WEST, 703 Welch Road, Palo Alto, Calif. 94304
June 1964 - Number 18
THREE TEST FEES ARE REDUCED
Fees for the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the Achievement Tests, and
the Preliminary Scholastic ⟦Aptitude⟧ Test were reduced by the
Trustees of the College Board at their March meeting. The SAT fee
reduction, from $5.00 to $4.50, will take effect beginning with the
December 1964 administration. The Achievement Tests reduction,
from $7.50 to $6.75, will also take effect next December. And the
PSAT fee reduction, from $1.00 to $.75, will become effective with
the October 1964 administration of that test.
Fees were reduced for these three tests because they generate
the largest margins of income over expenses and projections indi-
cated that unless they were reduced, the College Board, a nonprofit
organization, would accumulate greater reserves than are necessary.
CSS OFFERS A NEW SERVICE
Participants in the College Scholarship Service were notified in
April of a new central processing service for college students who
wish to have their financial aid awards renewed. Colleges that wish
to use the new service, which will go into effect this fall, will dis-
tribute a special version of ⟦the⟧ now-familiar Parents' Confidential
Statement to renewal applicants. The parents of these applicants will
complete the renewal PCS and send it to the College Scholarship
Service, which will process the Statement and return it to the college
with a financial need analysis.
For the student who has filed a PCS (regular or renewal) in con-
secutive previous years, the analysis will be a cumulative report
showing comparative figures for up to four years.
Renewal Parents' Confidential Statements will be evaluated and
analyses of them will be produced in February, April, and June of
1965 for the first times. A fee of $1.50 will be charged for each
renewal PCS.
The new service, in development for two years, is being offered
in response to requests from college financial aid officers. It is
intended to make upperclass financial aid programs more effective
by providing full information in readily comparable form, while re-
ducing the drain on the aid officer's time.
COLLEGE BOARD OFFICE FOR THE SOUTHWEST
The Southwestern Regional Office of the College Board will begin
operating on September 1, 1964 in Austin, Texas. Initially it will
serve educational institutions in Texas and New Mexico.
H. Paul Kelley, presently coordinator of measurement service in
the Testing and Counseling Center at the University of Texas, will
be the director. Dr. Kelley was formerly a psychometric fellow at
Educational Testing Service.
Mrs. Elsie T. Bundy will be assistant director of the new regional
office. For the past two years Mrs. Bundy has served as the College
Board's visiting representative in Texas.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Next fall, for the first time, the College Scholarship Service will
provide a leaflet to go with each Parents' Confidential Statement.
Called Financial Aid for College, A Letter to Parents, it carries the by-
line of Sidney Margolius, well-known author and expert on family
finances. Mr. Margolius describes present-day financial aid re-
sources and procedures, with special attention to the CSS need anal-
ysis method. One section answers the questions most often asked by
parents seeking help with college expenses. The leaflets will be sent
in bulk to schools in September, one leaflet for each PCS form.
In the same circularization with A Letter to Parents will go the re-
vised edition of Financing a College Education. This new version of the
CSS's guide for counselors contains an up-dated table of amounts ex-
pected from the incomes of families with no special financial prob-
lems. The table reflects changes brought about by the recent reduc-
tion in federal income tax rates.
The 1964-66 edition of Advanced Placement Program: Course Descrip-
tions is just off the press. It provides the latest descriptions of Ad-
vanced Placement courses and examinations in American history,
biology, chemistry, English, European history, French, German,
Latin, mathematics, physics, ⟦and⟧ Spanish. Course Descriptions is re-
vised every two years and i⟦s⟧ available at $1.50 per copy.
School counselors and college admissions officers will be able to
look over one another's shoulders, figuratively speaking, when Col-
lege Board Score Reports: A Guide for Counselors and Admissions Officers
is distributed next fall. This new publication combines information
and advice contained in A Guide for Counselors, which has been revised
annually for many years, and A Guide for Admissions Officers, which
appeared in 1962 for the first and only time as a separate publica-
tion. The combined publication will contain percentile ranks for high
school juniors who have taken the Achievement Tests; in previous
years A Guide for Counselors provided percentile ranks only for sen-
iors who had taken Achievement Tests.
11,500 TAKE SPANISH SAT IN PUERTO RICO
On February 15 the first edition of a Spanish-language Scholastic
Aptitude Test was administered throughout the island of Puerto Rico.
It marked the culmination of an intensive 14-month effort by Latin-
American educators and sta⟦ff⟧ members of the College Board and
Educational Testing Service. The story of how this first SAT in a
foreign language was developed, as well as a description of education
in present-day Puerto Rico, appears on 16 pages of College Board Re-
view No. 53, Spring 1964 issue, just published. Copies are available
at $.50 each from College Entrance Examination Board, Box 592,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540.
SUMMER INSTITUTES FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS
Training institutes to upgrade the skills of high school English
teachers are being held by 25 colleges and universities this sum⟦mer⟧.
They are an outgrowth of the 20 Summer Institutes pioneered by th⟦e⟧
College Board's Commission on English in 1962. Floyd Rinker, ex-
ecutive director of the Commission, summarizes the results of these
earlier institutes in College Board Review No. 53, Spring 1964.
The 868 English teachers who participated were exposed to the
latest thinking in linguistics, literature, and composition. Mr. Rinker
writes that, "the most severe challe⟦nge⟧ was presented by composi-
tion. Almost none of the participant⟦s h⟧ad done any writing since col-
lege and not much then. Our course forced them to write, usually an
essay a week. The prevailing reaction of the teacher-students was
shock." According to one instructor, Mr. Rinker reports, the shock
came from discovering that the rules of grammar, punctuation, and
rhetoric which they had taught their students did not help much in
actual writing. Their writing was often bad, the instructor concluded,
not because it was incorrect but because they did not know how to say
what they wanted to say.
College Entrance Examination Board
Post Office Box 592, Princeton, New Jersey 0⟦854⟧0
Return requested
the PSAT by scholarship sponsors, therefore,
should not be a factor in any school's deci-
sion to offer the test if, in the judgment of
the school, it serves no other useful educa-
tional purpose.
When is the PSAT given?
The PSAT will be given on two dates in 1964:
Tuesday, October 20 and Saturday, October
24. A school may choose either date, but all
participating students in the school must be
tested on the same date. A different form
(edition) of the PSAT will be used for each
test date and no school will be authorized to
use more than one form.
If both of the scheduled test dates conflict
with school vacations, teachers' conferences,
or religious observances, or if there are
other compelling reasons for requesting a
different test date, a school must request a
special testing date by letter, using the
appropriate address given on the inside
front cover of this leaflet. Such letters should
contain a detailed account of the circum-
stances and should specify the desired test
date. The special test date should be as
close to the dates given above as possible.
The only circumstance under which a
school may give the test on more than one
date will arise when a school wishes to test
on Saturday but has some students who
cannot take the test on that day because of
religious convictions. Such a school may
test these students on the Friday immediately
preceding the scheduled testing date. If for
some very unusual reason the special ad-
ministration for these students cannot be
held on Friday, the test may be administered
on the following Sunday. In either case, the
principal of the school should notify the
College Board, using the appropriate address
on the inside front cover, stating that this
is being done because of the religious con-
victions of the students being tested at the
special administration.
How schools register
Educational Testing Service (ETS), which
conducts the PSAT program for the College
Board, sends registration forms with this
announcement leaflet to secondary schools
in the United States in May and again in
September.* A school may register to give
the PSAT either by returning the registration
form or by writing to the appropriate address
given on the inside front cover of this leaflet.
Schools are urged to register in the spring.
In registering, a school furnishes an estimate
of the number of students for which it will
need test supplies. Such spring estimates
are not necessarily final; they may be revised
in September when registration materials
are again sent to schools in the United States.
Delivery of materials in time for the test
cannot be assured for registrations received
later than October 2.
Administering the PSAT
All (PSAT) test and informational materials are
sent to the secondary school principal, who
may either administer the test himself or
appoint a representative to do so. Testing
time is two hours. An additional 20 minutes
should be allowed for administrative details.
*The registration forms are sent to schools in foreign
countries in May only. Registrations from these schools
must be received no later than September 22.
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