User blog comment:WarrenWitch/Yang nails it, Pyrrha gets her man, Weiss chooses the lesser of two evils...and Ruby hits a crow/@comment-11942246-20130816050909/@comment-11188061-20130816171925

This is the last time I'm going to post here. I'm going to state the reasons why Professor Ozpin had set the students to fight monsters (still assumption, but I'm very sure that I'm right - they literally are fighting Beowolves already) immediately for their initiation test, basically the first day into school.

First, by doing this, they would be able to immediately separate the competent warriors from the incompetent ones. Those who are unable to handle the Beowolves would be failed and sent back immediately, thus ensuring that they would not waste their life unnecessarily and die in a real better. Those who could fight and succeed in the test would prove their worth, and since they were battling monsters for real it would count as a rewarding and educational experience (whether or not they've ever fought Beowolves in Signal Academy) regardless. These are people who has the highest chances of survival and would most likely survive against most monster attacks.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If four years of training, regardless of whether they have real monster battle experience or not, could not prepare them enough to handle the rather simple test set up by Beacon, then it would be best to fail and send them back now rather than waiting for later. This ensures the maximum efficiency of resource usage (since they won't be wasting resource on students that'll fail later anyway), while also ensuring that the maximum of people will survive. It was a brilliant strategy setup by Beacon Academy, and I praise them for it.

Lastly, while it is very important to safekeep people's lives, being overprotective would only cause laziness, over-reliance, and worse, failure. Beacon's direction is right in my opinion, as the above is especially true in the monster-slaying industry. In a world where you either kill or be killed, you can't afford to be overprotective over the students. They either become warriors, or they will not.