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Dates Set For
Selective Service
Qualification Tests
Major General Lewis B. Her. .shey*. director of -Selective Service today announced May 15 as the deadline for the submission of
applications for the Selective Service College Qualification Test. Alt postcard applications for the test must be postmarked not later than midnight May 15.
The three testing dates are May 26, June 16, and June 30. All of these dates are Saturdays. A fourth examination will be held Thursday, July 12 for those students whose religious beliefs are such that they could not in conscience take the examination on a Saturday.
The deadline has been established to allow the administrators of the test, the educational testing service, Princeton, New Jersey, time to process the applications and assign each applicant a testing center from the approximately 1,200 centers and a date on which he is to report to take the test, General Hershey pointed out.
Young men who are contemplating taking the Selective Service college qualification test— b scores of which will 'be used by local boards in considering student deferments—may obtain application blanks from the nearest local board: They do not have to return home to the local board which has jurisdiction over them.
To be eligible to take the Selective Service College Qualification test, an applicant:
1. Must be a registrant who intends to request occupational deferment as a student;
2. Must be under 26 years old at the time of taking the test; 3. Must haye already begun and plans to continue his college or university studies (the applicant need not be in a four year college but his entire course must be satisfactory for transfer of credits to a degree granting institution).
The test must be given by the Educational Testing Service at no cost to the registrant. The regis. trant will be required to pay only for his own transportation costs to and from the testing center.
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