“BEYOND SYLLABUS”
Matriculation Paper in French Dominion Special Service Dunedin, December 18. Indignation at the severity of the French papers set for the University Entrance Examinations just concluded is not confined to Christchurch alone. “We were very indignant when we saw the papers, which set a test equal to the first stage of a degree examination,” said the headmaster of a Dunedin secondary school. “The average scholar would have found extreme difficulty in answering the paper, but some of the more clever pupils might have been able to answer it. The French test was definitely beyond the entrance standard; for example, there were questions set in grammar which could not possibly be described as ‘simple questions,’ the term used in the syllabus. The test was beyond the syllabus and beyond the standard of the papers set for matriculation for some time past.”
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 74, 20 December 1933, Page 17
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