Hershey Announces 63% Passed Tests

Sixty-three percent of the students who took the Selective Service College Qualification Tests last spring and summer scored 70 or better. Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Director of Selective Service, revealed yesterday, 339,000 men took the tests.

Over 200,000 men thus satisfied one of the suggested criteria for deferment. In addition to a score of 70 on the exam. satisfactory rank in the college class is recommended as a criterion to be used by draft boards in deferments. Satisfactory standing is upperhalf of the freshman class, upper two-thirds of the sophomore class, and upper three-fourths of the junior class. Seniors admitted to graduate study must stand in the upper half of their class, or get 75 on the exam.

Hershey also reminded students that the deadline for submitting applications for the exam on December 13 is midnight of Monday, November 5. The second in the new series of Selective Service exams will be held on April 24, 1952, and the deadline for submitting applications for that test is midnight, March 10, 1952.