MATRICULATION CHEMISTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 293, 11 December 1929, Page 6

MATRICULATION CHEMISTRY.

The matriculation candidate who wrote in your issue of Friday said that the chemistry was beyond the reach of the average eaudidate. He says that a candidate who worked studiously throughout the year and knew all about the preparation of gases, oxidation and reduction, acids, bases and salts, and the gas law?, could not have obtained fifteen per cent of the possible. I beg to remind: this person that the syllabus -was not .intended for only one year and to deny his statement. Such a person as he mentions could have scored at_ least eighty per cent on questions 1, 4 and 5, ana almost as much on question 7, i- e -> about fortyfive per cent of the possible. The paper was easy for anyone who knew the syllabus, though difficult for anyone else. For this reason 1 consider the paper was well set. ANOTHER CANDIDATE. I wish to endorse "Candidate's" remarks rfi the above subject. During the past year tee science masters have laid much stress upon the subjects which he mentioned, together wito sulphur, phosphorus and chlorine. Hence aU students prepared these subjects well. But in the examination paper the questions wen based on other work, which was regarded as being of loss importance. I think this m ! lL^ r calls for concerted action on the part of the parents. OPTIMIbT.