INEFFICIENT TYPISTS
HOMELAND EXAMINATIONS. Five girls out of every six failed at the last examination for typists in the English civil service. This is revealed in the report of the Civil Service Commissioners, recently issued. The girls were all between 18 and 28 years of age, and of the 920 who sat for the examination only 150 passed. One candidate earned only eight marks out of a possible 1000. The shorthand results showed that 166 girls—more than one-sixth of the entrants —received no marks at all out of the possible 200; many others received only five, ten, and twenty marks. Four hundred marks were al- ’ lowed for typing, but seven girls received no marks, while others obtained only two, four, six, eight, or ten. The shorthand tests were only at the speed of sixty and eighty words a minute, and the typewriting test at thirty words a minute.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 March 1930, Page 8
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