Guinea-pig Freshmen will take a six-hour aptitude test next week which the Department of Tests hopes will eventually become a standard examination for determining academic ability.

Specially prepared for the University by the College Entrance Examination Board, the tests are designed to examine the ability of a student to perform well in a given academic field. Freshmen will take the examinations in three parts at various times throughout the week, with each session lasting two hours.

"Not Loaded"

Though the tests are twice as long as any finals ever are, they will definitely not be so painful, since no one can fail. "There are no loaded questions in them," said Henry S. Dyer '27, director of the Department of Tests, under whose specifications the examinations were prepared.

Divided into fifteen short sections, the tests will consist of mostly multiple choice questions. Unlike the Kuder test, given to Freshmen last term, the new examination will test ability and not interest. Eventually, the tests will become permanent, in order to aid Freshmen in making the proper choice of fields of concentration, Dyer said.

Results of the examination will be available in the latter part of June. Since the College will not be in session at that time, they will be mailed out to those who take the test.