KATRICULATION EXAMINATION.
RAISED STANDARD AND THE RESULT. [Spf.cial to the Star.] WELLINGTON, March 20. A stiffening of the requirement in the last, matriculation examination has not, accordin' 7 to (he Registrar of ihe New Zealand University (Mr Hector), lessoned the percentage of passes. Ho combats the suggestion (hat a larger of candidates failed at the recent examination than in previous years, and gives the following figures: —In 1908 47 per cent, passed, in 1909 39 per cent, passed, in 1910 o7 per cent, passed, in 1911 40 per cent, passed, and in 1912 42 per cent. passed, tut if partial passes are added the percentage for 1912 is 53, and this is in spito of a distinct raising of the standard. The examination. he adds, should he criticised only as what it is intended for—an entrance examination to the University, not as a school leaving or general proficiency examination. The secondary schools, from which almost exclusively the University students are drawn have welcomed the raising of the standard of the matriculation examination. The head master of the largest secondary school in New Zealand has stated emphatically that nobody from his school who has failed in 1912 deserved to pass.
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Evening Star, Issue 15138, 20 March 1913, Page 8
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199KATRICULATION EXAMINATION. Evening Star, Issue 15138, 20 March 1913, Page 8
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