As part of the current trend toward adopting modern, objective-standardized test methods in evaluating the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) in the schools of the Socialist Republic of Romania, this review of pedagogical literature makes available to the English-reading audience information that has appeared in Romanian materials. The traditional testing system used in Romania is described and evaluated, with special attention to EFL testing at all educational levels, as reported in major journals and a few unpublished documents. At the request of Romanian educational officials, an experiment was carried out using an American-made objective-standardized EFL test upon a population of 201 Romanian students of English. Subjects represented three levels: 12th graders, university freshmen, and university juniors. The conditions of the experiment as well as the basic statistical information the tests yielded are described. Finally, general guidelines for a grounded theory of objective testing of EFL in Romania are suggested. (Author/CFM)