Nearly 40,000 To Sit School Certificate

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31211, 8 November 1966, Page 25

Nearly 40,000 To Sit School Certificate

Nearly 40,000 fifth-form pupils throughout New Zealand will sit School Certificate examinations this year from November 21 to December 2. Of these 10.428 will be in the South Island and 4107 in the Christchurch metropolitan area. There are 386 examination centres throughout the country, 103 of them in the South Island and 27 in Christchurch alone.

Candidates will sit in 37 subjects and all will sit English on the second morning, November 22. These examinations are being held a week later than usual to give schools more time to prepare.

This will move the collection and distribution of scripts for marking into early December and their return into the Christmas mail and transport rush. However the Education Department still hopes to publish the results at the usual

time near the middle of January. A more exact date is usually announced nearer the time.

The national totals sitting major subjects other than English are:— 26,450 for geography, 20,960 mathematics, 18,110 general science, 15,642 history, 12,780 biology and 12,180 French. More than 1000 adults will sit individual papers, compared with 362 last year.