Exam. Papers Attacked: Atrocious English
WELLINGTON. Dec. 14.
“I consider the English papers set for the school certificate and university entrance examinations are examples of atrocious English,” said Mr. K. W. R. Glasgow, headmaster of Scots’ College, at the break-up ceremony last night. “The boys have to wade through a mass of material that lias no relation to modern life at all . It is all mixed up,” he said. “There is too much variation in standards from year to year and between subject and subject.” His greatest protest was that solid and detailed knowledge, particularly in history and geography, was discounted by too many vague questions whose meaning was obscure and which gave what he considered to be an advantage to the glib student over the solid and conscientious one.
Mr. Glasgow said he was in disagreement with the proposal to make English a compulsory subject in the university entrance examination in 1950. “While I believe that every boy should take English at school, I don’t think he should have to take it for his entrance examination,” he said.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22820, 15 December 1948, Page 10
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