PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 285, 2 December 1931, Page 6

PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION.

Having read in your columns tliafc _ "new system operates fairly/' I . i; i v to point out tlie injustice, if not the.ill o ' of some of the questions in the above exa tion. The syllabus of instruction . lssuea all schools says (page 25): "Decimals • ' to three places." The first sum of one .- tests, involved four if not more places as two separate operations. On the - . page of the syllabus the scope of equa. , ve given together with examples, which !^.g er . only one unknown on one side a ver y wns ent thing from the equations _ withun .■ on both sides, which appeared ill this ex , ju. tion. On page 16 appears:."Forma or taW lated analysis of sentences snail ... required," yet the very fir#' c l u ®® tl ° l, clai j Se6 ,. of - the papers says: ' Analyse „ Tvi .narkgiving the function of each clause. ing recognition of clause counted on f \ - kind one mark, and function two niaii .• . the faeo.of this, can it be maintained, system operates fairly? Are parents n remain in apathetic indifference. w Education Department deliberately _se , deprive a percentage of children or hance ing certificate (and incidentally of of a job) by these. de j i^^ I AT LEAST- ;