siNCE 1930 some use has been made of the objective-type tests for placement purposes in the beginning courses in chemistry at Brown University. Three courses are offered to the average entering student who is not generally qualified for advanced Chemistry 1, Elementary Chemistry, a year standing: course primarily for those who do not present chemistry Chemistry 3A, General College Chemistry, for admission, a year course for those who present chemistry for admission;and Chemistry, a semester sion, and Chemistry 5, Inorganic course open only to those registered for the degree Sc.B. discussed in in chemistry The placement program this paper is applied specifically only to the group who would normally register in Chemistry 3. The procedure has been found very useful, however, in determining for prospective Se.B. candidates the advisability of their pursuing the special chemistry curriculum. chemistry for ad- Up to 1930, students who presented mission(except Sc.B. candidates and who wished to continue work in the subject were registered automati- cally in General College Chemistry. Students who did not present chemistry for admission, even though they might have had good preparation in it, were auto- registered in Element Chemist The matically whole procedure prior to 1930 was rather rigid, and too large a percentage of the students had serious difficulty in the General College Chemistry course. Since it did not seem advisable to lessen the rigorous nature of the course itself, as most of the students were able to profit from it, the practice was instituted of transferring the less well-qualified students from the General College Chemistry Course to the Elementary Chemistry Course. Some means of identifying the poorly prepared student Of the Department of Education in Brown University. was sought, and, beginning in the fall of 1930, the Iowa Chemistry Training Test was given early each year to all those who had studied chemistry previously, whether they presented chemistry for admission or not. On the basis of their poor showing on this single test, some students were advised to transfer to the Elementary Chemistry Course. The procedure was haphazard, and to improve the technic, the predictive value of scores on this test was made a subject of study for several years. Other in dices that might have a bearing upon placement in chemistry were included. As a consequence of these studies, more formal placement adequate data, have been devised. procedures, based u In the fall of 1935, the General College Chemistry course was modified rather considerably so as to minimize the amount of material presented which duplicated that usually included in the secondary school course. Cartledge's Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry,''t and the accompanying laboratory manual,t were adopted as textbooks. An extensive bibliography for outside reading was prepared, and a problem syllabus was written to augment the text in places where the instructor felt that the students could profitably follow a more arithmetical approach. It was soon apparent that while the newly organized course was more stimulating and profitable for the well qualified and superior students, those of low aptitude obtained less from it than from the former more conventional descriptive course. The need for a reasonably good method of measuring the aptitude of the entering students who have studied chemistry previously, to be applied before actual registration, became even more p ressing