INTELLIGENCE TESTS
SYSTEM TO BE EXTENDED. Intelligence tests used by the R.A.A.F. have been so successful that the system is to be extended. This is expected to widen the field from which personnel is being recruited. The tests are not concerned with education or schooling, but are aimed at determining the "native ability" of the trainee or his capacity to absorb instruction of different kinds. An Air Department spokesman said that use of the tests at initial training schools had resulted in the retention of many recruits who had failed in their first examination. Many recruits who might otherwise have been discharged had succeeded at their second attempt. The tests would be extended immediately to R.A.A.F. recruiting centres, where every air crew applicant would have to be examined before being placed on the reserve.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1941, Page 6
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134INTELLIGENCE TESTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1941, Page 6
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