EXAMINATION RESULTS.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT'S BIG
> TASK
ELEVEN THOUSAND CANDIDATES
[From Our Correspondent.]. WELLINGTON, January. 27. No fewer than 11.000 candidates entered for the examinations conducted by the Education Department for junior and senior national scholarships, free places, Public Service senior and, junior and teachers' T) and O certificates. To conduct these examinations with scrupulous care and exactitude means an enormous amount of administrative work by the Education Department, and a correspondent of the " Lyttelton Times" was. enlightened by the Minister of Education (the Hon J. A. Hanan) regarding the main features of this work. " Examiners have first to bo appointed to set about 150 papers in the various , subjects," said the Minister. " When these papers are received in manuscript, they "have to be edited, printed' and prepared for distribution. Examination centre? have to be fixed, supervisors appointed and buildings arranged for. The examination stationery, in itself a large item, has to be .prepared and distributed. Then the applications for examination have to be cheeked, and there is always "a largo amount of correspond'onoe over this phase of the work. Actually, 50 per cent of tho applications in some/ of the examinations are informal, and in the process of correction half a dozen letters have to be exchanged. Finally, the applications in order, admission cards arc sent to each candidate, and time-tables prepared, with due regard' to the point that no two subjects taken by the candidate are set down to he completed at the same time., " At last, we reach the stage of receiving the completed papers." continued the Minister, "and then the examiners set to work on the mark lists. These lists come back to the Department, and arc incorporated into the general .lists from which tho filial results can be ascertained. All this work lias to be carefully cheeked, and when it is remembered that each of the 11.000 candidates probably takes on an average six subjects, and that over 60,000 papers have thus to he examined and the marks entered, the general public will realise the snornious amount of work involved, and the reason why results are not placed' before the expectant, candidates until some time has claused. " I
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17077, 28 January 1916, Page 10
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362EXAMINATION RESULTS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17077, 28 January 1916, Page 10
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