In spite of the lengthy details into which we enter, it is evident that all this work of examination can be done pretty rapidly. The arithmetic alone is a little long, because it is necessary to allow time to put the child at his ease. We may put the total examination at fifteen minutes. Often it will be possible to abridge the time. The inspector is now in a position to estimate the retardation of the pupil and his knowledge percentage. He has several means at his disposal--the evidence of the teachers, the notes concerning the pupil, the examination of his copybook, observation of the attitude of the child, his physiognomy, etc., and, above all, the exact and personal test which he has made. Is this enough? When the inspector has established the retardation and determined its causes, may he, should he, give his opinion immediately? In most cases, without doubt, a further inquiry is not necessary. But in other cases the need of further inquiry is felt. Instruction is not everything, and there are some children who have difficulty in assimilating school knowledge owing to want of aptitude, to inattention, to laziness, who are yet quite intelligent. It is the intelligence of these children that one would like to determine, and for this it is necessary to make use of some tests of intelligence. We propose, therefore, for the inspectors a last examination, a psychological one. Let no one accuse us of complicating the examinations. We do not impose them, we do not even advise them in all cases. But these tests are none the less very valuable tools to which one is very happy to have recourse when one feels embarrassed. PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION. This consists in putting the following questions,[10] which have been grouped in such a manner that the four first can be answered by normal children at seven years of age, the five following by normal children at nine years of age, and the four last by normal children at eleven years of age. Tests of Intelligence. _Seven Years._ 1. If you were late for school, what would you do? 2. If you lost a train, what would you do? 3. If one is lazy and does not want to work, what happens? 4. If you were tired and had not enough money to take an omnibus, what would you do? _Nine Years._ 5. If one needed sixpence, how could one get it? 6. Why should we not spend all our money, but put a little past? 7. If you break an object that does not belong to you, what should you do? 8. If a companion should strike you without meaning it, what should you do? 9. If you require some good advice, what should you do? _Eleven Years._ 10. Before taking part in anything important, what should you do? 11. Why do we forgive a bad deed done in anger more readily than a bad deed done without anger? 12. If anyone asks your opinion about a person whom you know very little, what would you do?