This study investigates speech acts and the pragmatic situations and measures in the English test of the foreign language examination, which is a part of the university placement test in Turkey. The study shows that pragmatic test items emerged as early as 1978, with the use of discourse completion test (OCT) items and dialogue completion test (DIA) items. These items included 20 types of speech acts, which occurred more in DCTs than in DIAs although the number of DIAs is more than DCTs. The DCT situations have developed over the years resulting in more information in DCT prompts. Items including pragmatic situations and speech acts peaked in the 1990's to account for 16% of the test, which later decreased to 10% in 2003. Although the effort of including pragmatic situations in this test could be considered worthwhile in terms of employing pragmatics in educational testing, certain factors such as poor distractors prevent most of these items from being pragmatic items.