Test scoring and recording apparatus

Claim 1

IN A MACHINE FOR GRADING AND MARKING STUDENT''S TEST CARDS ACCORDING TO THEIR COMPARISON WITH INDICIA APPEARING ON A SIMILAR ANSWER CARD AND RELATING TO MULTIPLE CHOICE RESPONSES TO A SERIES OF QUESTIONS, THE TEST AND ANSWER CARDS HAVING CORRESPONDINGLY ARRANGED COLUMNS OF MULTIPLE CHOICE POSITIONS, THE MULTIPLE CHOICE POSITIONS OF THE ANSWER CARD HAVING INDICIA APPLIED IN ACCORDANCE WITH CORRECT RESPONSES TO SAID QUESTIONS, AND THE POSITIONS OF THE TEST CARDS HAVING INDICIA VARIOUSLY APPLIED SO AS TO BE INDICATIVE OF CORRECT AND INCORRECT ANSWERS TO SAID QUESTIONS, MEANS ESTABLISHING A FIRST SENSING STATION FOR THE TEST CARDS, MEANS ESTABLISHING A FIRST SENSING STATION FOR THE ANSWER CARD, MEANS FOR IMPELLING THE TEST CARDS SUCCESSIVELY THROUGH THE FIRST SENSING STATION IN ENDWISE FASHION, MEANS FOR REPEATEDLY IMPELLING THE ANSWER CARD THROUGH THE SECOND SENSING STATION IN TIMED RELATION TO THE MOVEMENT OF THE TEST CARDS THROUGH THE FIRST SENSING STATION, MEANS AT SAID FIRST AND SECOND SENSING STATIONS FOR COMPARATIVELY SENSING THE INDICIA ON THE TEST CARDS AND ANSWER CARD RESPECTIVELY, A SERIES OF ENERGIZABLE MARKING DEVICES AT SAID FIRST SENSING STATION AND OPERABLE WHEN ENERGIZED TO MARK RESPECTIVELY THE MULTIPLE CHOICE POSITIONS ON SUCCESSIVE TEST CARDS PASSING THROUGH SAID FIRST STATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SENSED INDICIA ON THE ANSWER CARD, MEANS NORMALLY RESPONSIVE TO THE SENSING OF AN INDICIA ON THE ANSWER CARD FOR ENERGIZING A CORRESPONDING MARKING DEVICE, AND MEANS RESPONSIVE TO THE SIMULTANEOUS SENSING OF CORRESPONDING INDICIA ON A TEST CARD AND THE ANSWER CARD FOR DISABLING THE ENERGIZING MEANS FOR THE CORRESPONDING MARKING DEVICE.