1. A Cloze-Elide automatic test system, comprising a test sheet of predetermined dimensions and having a plurality of defined marking areas thereon arranged in rows, each said marking area having respective predetermined position on said sheet, a text of printed words of a first optical reflectivity arranged in said rows, each said printed word defining a word position corresponding to one or more of said marking areas, indicia of a second optical reflectivity overmarking selected ones of said words, and optical scanning means having different optical sensitivities to said words and said overmarking indicia, for scanning said sheet to determine the positions of said overmarked words.
1. A Cloze-Elide automatic test system, comprising a test sheet of predetermined dimensions and having a plurality of defined marking areas thereon arranged in rows, each said marking area having respective predetermined position on said sheet, a text of printed words of a first optical reflectivity arranged in said rows, each said printed word defining a word position corresponding to one or more of said marking areas, indicia of a second optical reflectivity overmarking selected ones of said words, and optical scanning means having different optical sensitivities to said words and said overmarking indicia, for scanning said sheet to determine the positions of said overmarked words. 2. The system as described in claim 1, wherein said printed text contains randomly inserted distractor words, said system further comprising position storage means for storing data representative of positions of said inserted distractor words, means for generating overmark data representative of the determined positions of said overmarked words, means for comparing said distractor word data with said overmark data, and means for indicating said comparison in numerical terms.