UNIVERSITY SENATE.
DISCUSSION ON PASS MARKS. <BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, May 25. The New Zealand University Senate met to-day, Professor MacMillan Brown (Chancellor) presiding. Professor T. A. Hunter moved that for all university examinations, except matriculation and entrance, the pass marks shall he 50 per cent. He said that at present there were two pass marks, 40 per cent and 50 par cent. It \v,as the practice in law, medicine, and accountancy to require 50 per cent, but in the arts course the practice varied. Professor Wall opposed making a standard. Different pass marks might he desired by the examiners. The motion was negatived by 15 to 4. The Senate agreed in. regard. to a recommendation of the "Wellington committee as to alleged irregularities in connection with examinations that the chief supervisor in each centre to be asked to submit to the local committee his list of assistant supervisors and his proposed arrangement for the approval of the local committee.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1926, Page 9
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161UNIVERSITY SENATE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1926, Page 9
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