Objective To study the relationship between the results of freshmen's psychological assessment and their active counseling(hereinafter referred to as "active counseling") within one year, and being listed as the focus of attention due to abnormal psychological performance(hereinafter referred to as "focus"), and to test the empirical validity of freshmen's psychological assessment, so as to provide reference for further improving freshmen's psychological assessment. Methods Taking 8031 valid evaluation results of a university from 2015 to 2016 using symptom checklist 90(SCL-90) and 11877 valid evaluation results of Chinese college students' mental health screening scale from 2017 to 2019 as the research object, this paper examines the evaluation results of "active counseling" and "focus on" students one by one, obtains the proportion of different evaluation results, and obtains the empirical validity of the scale. Wilcoxon signed rank sum test was used to test the correlation between "active consultation" and "focus" and the grade of evaluation results year by year, and the empirical validity of the scale was 2. Results The positive rate of SCL-90 was 38.29%, 73.91% of the students who were "focused on" and 54.24% of the students who were "actively consulted". In the annual and summary data, there is no significant correlation between the evaluation grade and "active consultation" and "key attention" in 2015, and the rest has significant correlation. The detection rate of serious psychological crisis in Chinese college students' mental health screening scale was 10.57%, 80.12% of "focus" and 47.56% of "active consultation" were predicted, and the evaluation grades in the annual and summary data were significantly correlated with "active consultation" and "focus"。 Conclusion Both Chinese college students' mental health screening scale and SCL-90 have good empirical validity in the evaluation of freshmen, and the empirical validity of Chinese college students' mental health screening scale is better than SCL-90. By focusing on the choice of the scale and improving the way of measurement, we can improve the empirical validity of Freshmen's psychological assessment.