Concern was expressed for the possible effects of testing Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I students with norm-referenced tests that may be so difficult that many students will have scores in the chance range. The likelihood of such students obtaining equal scaled scores if they were tested with easier out-of-level tests was discussed. In this study, two groups of sixth grade students were each tested with two levels of the California Achievement Test. One group took Level 16, on-level, and Level 15, an out-of-level test, while the other group took Level 16 and Level 14. The results are presented in tables. The author concludes that out-of-level testing of low achievers is, at best, a limited solution or stopgap measure to the pressing instrumentation problems in Title I evaluation. (CTM)