Korovkin type approximation theorems are useful tools to check whether a given sequence (Ln) n³1 of positive linear operators on C[0,1] of all continuous functions on the real interval [0,1] is an approximation process. That is, these theorems exhibit a variety of test functions which assure that the approximation property holds on the whole space if it holds for them. Such a property was discovered by Korovkin in 1953 for the functions 1, x and x2 in the space C[0,1] as well as for the functions 1, cos and sin in the space of all continuous 2p-periodic functions on the real line. In this paper, we use the notion of statistical lacunary summability to improve the result of [Ann. Univ. Ferrara, 57 (2) (2011) 373-381] by using the test functions 1, e-x, e-2x n place of 1, x and x2. We apply the classical Baskakov operator to construct an example in support of our main result.