The aim of this investigation was to develop a justifiable and efficient procedure for locating the top two percent of the eighth grade students in an inner-city junior high school. The WISC performance IQ was chosen as the criterion measure. Four screening measures were used to select students for the WISC: an achievement test (the California Achievement Test 1970 reading and mathematics), a conventional IQ test (the California Test of Mental Maturity short form 1963), a "culture fair" test (Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices) and teacher nominations. Students scoring in the top two percent of the sample on one or more of these measures took the Advanced Progressive Matrices and the WISC. The top nine students on the WISC performance scale were designated mentally gifted. Since four of the nine gifted students were not nominated by any teacher, the use of teacher nominations is not recommended except as a supplement to objective tests. A procedure involving the use of the SPM followed by the APM is recommended for selecting students for the WISC. This procedure would have identified eight of the nine gifted students in this study, and would have required the administration of only 14 WISCs. (Author)