THE REPRODUCIBILITY OF THE ATTERBERG LIMIT SOIL TESTS IN HIGHWAY ENGINEERING IS QUESTIONED. A STATISTICALLY CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT WAS PERFORMED TO INVESTIGATE HOW WELL AN OPERATOR CAN REPRODUCE THE ATTERBERG LIMITS AND THE EFFECTS OF AN OPERATORS EXPERIENCE ON THE TEST RESULTS. TWO OPERATORS, ONE WITH CONSIDERABLE EXPERIENCE AND THE OTHER WITH PRACTICALLY NO EXPERIENCE, PERFORMED A SERIES OF LIQUID AND PLASTIC LIMIT TESTS ON THREE DIFFERENT SOILS. THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TEST RESULTS REVEALED THE FOLLOWING' 1/ THERE ARE VARIATIONS OF SMALL MAGNITUDE IN THE ATTERBERG LIMIT VALUES, 2/ THE EXPERIENCE OF AN OPERATOR DOES AFFECT THE VARIATIONS OF THE ATTERBERG LIMIT VALUES, 3/ THE PLASTICITY INDEX VALUES ARE MOST VARIABLE, AND THE LIQUID LIMIT VALUES ARE LEAST VARIABLE WITH THE PLASTIC LIMIT VALUES OCCUPYING AN INTERMEDIATE POSITION. THE SPECIFIC NUMERICAL VALUES ON WHICH THESE GENERAL CONCLUSIONS ARE BASED ARE DISCUSSED. A METHOD BASED ON QUALITY CONTROL TECHNIQUES IS PROPOSED FOR TECHNICIAN TRAINING IN PERFORMING ATTERBERG LIMIT TESTS.