UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 4 November 1930, Page 10

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND.

| ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS. The annual examinations of the University of New Zealand began yesterday in the various centres throughout the country. The examinations are held not only in the University towns but in very many smaller places where sufficient candidates are offering to make it worth while forming a centre. Many of the students of Canterbury College went home at the conclusion of the term on October 10th. and are sitting the University examinations at the nearest local centre. Some subjects, such as engineering, which require special conditions, must be taken at the University centre. There are over 1200 entries from Canterbury College, of which the various stage® of the Science «nd Arts Degrees account for about 570. Three hundred and twenty students are sitting for the first stages of these two degrees, and the Faculty of Commerce has the next largest entry with 271 candidates, while there are 108 sitting for the various sections of the Bachelor of Engineering course. 'Die majority of the students have spent the last three weeks, since the College lectures terminated, strenuously "getting-up" their subjects for ( examination. Though some may be up 1 t-o date, and have nothing to "do but revise, the majority seem to do the greater part of their work at the end of the year. Some confess that they have often got hold of facts at the last minute that have been all-import-ant in their examination. The tests began yesterday, under the control in Christchurch of Mr C. D. Hardie. the Chief Supervisor, in the Canterbury College Hall and lecture rooms, and in the Y.M.C.A. Those papers—in general the pass-grade subieets—which are marked in New Zealand, will be marked immediately, and the results are generally available toward the end of December and during the first weeks of January. Advanced and Honours results will not be known till toward the end of February as the papers for these stages are marked l i England.