UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 11

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS

'."* (To the EdHor.) ;; ;;. Sir,—As tlie University examinations Sviir soon be here, I -would like ' .to take' j this opportunity.; Pf- "voicing, a protest 'against the manner' in', -which paper; (especially 'that7 'supplied" for bookkeeping -examinations) is.-handed... out to—candidates. My experience has shown, that candidates arc allowed only one sheet at: a time, and dare not ask for more until' the previous one has been filled. Why; this parsimony?' Surely a candidate isnot suspected of filling a sheet and thenpassing it surreptitiously to his next-door neighbour! Ho has not the time to do. this. Surely he is not suspected pf" taking a few sheets home for the purpose. oE do'iu."- next year's homework? No. Paper is too cheap to risk this. Then a"am v candidate doe^not want to have •his attention.' distracted- .-by. the snapping I ol'' iinger's' and ' tlie pleadings.. J :*f those avb.uitd-.-lHm^iori.mpre',;:i)apef; especially, when4ci'is trying.tg-tliink of the formula, for finding -the am'puUtfcre6,mK!d annually to-: redeem. an.-.'issuedof;,- debentures. If the instructions issued'-fto supervisors are soi stringent:'iil':Stji.;tee;e!u<jle,;>.th^ : , from handing out more;: tWMf'one vshe'el;-; at a. time, thcn'it iß'nighaime m•'sti'uction'a ' were -.(revised;' giving ;;tp?i*upervisors a free-: iand'-; jn'i'the >in,liU«f2 I trust that .thie'state <if- affairs. -jViJI-vbe remedied 'at the forthcoming ■ examination's.