SEVERE PAPERS
MATRICULATION COMPLAINT
. . (By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. 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 tile paper, but some of the more clever pupils- might have been able to answer it. The French test was definitely beyond tlie 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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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 5
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