"GROTESQUE RESULTS."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 5

"GROTESQUE RESULTS."

■ DISCUSSION ON EXAMINATIONS. • (By Telegraph-Press Association.) ' • Chrlstchurcli,. January 27. ..The University Seriate, discussed at some length tho : effect, of ■ the "fevi- 1 sion". of candidates'; marks in the scholarship, examinations by a recess committee of the Senate after the marks are. received from l the examiners and before tho results are made public. The Chancellor and other members of the Senate declared they could not altogether understand tho principles upon which.., the revision proceeded,, and explanations by one of the members of the committee failed to. shed much light on tho.general gloom.. Cases worecitod whero.vthe operation of tho: system seemed: to'lead to most grotesque results, , and one member declared that .the difficulty was due to the fallacy of attempting to .make subject to mathematical .method subjects which, could notprdperly bo .govorned,\..by j.,.such. methods. . One interesting case was l'eiU ed by Professor. MacMillau Brown...Two. pupils of a certain,,school.presented themselves for the examination. One was remarkably well up in chemistry, and the other .so backward that.'lie abandoned the subject, in .favour of mechanics, . the, study of which he took aip at.the last moment. .Yet through the ■manipulation, of marks by the committee;. according their-system the candidate got twice, as many marks in mechanics.,-which' be had taken merely .as-a'substitute subject, as the one who had been, studying ch'emfsiry for several years: \ ;