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CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
entrance deficiencies must be made up before registration for the
second year.
The Admissions Committee recommends that the applicant's high
school course include at least two years of a foreign language, preferably
Latin, a year of basic elementary shop work, and as much
extra instruction in English grammar and composition as is available
in the high school curriculum.
Each applicant is expected to show that he has satisfactorily completed
the above-stated required preparation, by presenting a complete
scholastic record from an approved school'.
ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS
In addition to the above credentials, all applicants for admission to
the freshman class are required to take entrance examinations. These
examinations do not take the place of the high school credentials, but
serve to supplement them. The subjects covered are chemistry, physics,
mathematics, and English. The examinations are general in character;
they are intended to show the applicant's ability to think and
express himself clearly, and his fitness for scientific and engineering
training, rather than to test memorized information. Specimens or
samples of the examination questions for admission to the freshman
class of the Institute are not available for distribution.
Prospective freshmen are expected to take the entrance examinations
in chemistry and English near the end of their junior year in
high school, or one year prior to the date of expected admission to the
Institute. The remaining examinations, in mathematics and physics,
are ordinarily taken during March of the spring prior to
expected admission. Those students who have failed, for sufficient
reason, to take the chemistry and English examinations during the
junior year may be permitted to take all four examinations during the
spring prior to admission.
1 Incomplete scholastic records may be supplemented by examinatiOn! in particular JubjectJ
taken at the Institute. The scope of subject matter for these examinations i. the lime as that
covered by Itandard high school.. Applicants uking examinations in United State. Hinory and
Government must present their notebooks at the time of the examination. The schedule for 1941
i. as follows: Tuesday, September 23, 9:00 a.m., mathematics; Wednesday, September 24,
':09 •• m., hiltory and foreign lanluagea.