SCHOLARSHIPS' EXAMINATIONS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1911, Page 3

SCHOLARSHIPS' EXAMINATIONS

REVISION OF CANDIDATES 1 MARKS. [BY. TELBGEAPH — PRESS ASSOCIATION.! CHRIST.CHURCH, 27th January. The University Senate discussed at .some length the effect of the • " revision" of candidates' marks in the .scholarship examinations by a recess • of the senate after the i marks are received from the examiners • and before the results are made public. The Chancellor and other members of the Senate declared tfyey ceuld not altogether understand the principles upon which the revision proceeded, and explanations* by one of the members of the committee failed to shed much light on -the general gloom. Cases were cited where the operation of the system seemed to lead to most grotesque results, and one member declared that fche difficulty was due to the fallacy of attempting to make subject to mathematical method subjects which could not be properly governed by such methods. One interesting case, was cited by Professor MacMillan Brown. Two pupils of a certain school presented themselves for the examination. On« was remarkably well up in chemistry, and the* other so backward' that he abandoned the subject in favour of mechanics, the study of which he took up at the last moment. Yet through the manipulation, of marks by the com- • mifcfcee, according to their system' tho candidate gob twice as many marks in mechanics, which he had taken merely as a substitute subject, as the one who had boon studying chgniiatry, for'