MATRICULATION EXAMINATIONS.
VARIOUS ANOMALIES,
WHICH NEED RECTIFYING
WELLINGTON, This Day,
The Council of Education made recommendation to the University Senate (for varfious improvements in matriculation examinations, including one that examination papers should be revised to make sure that impossible problems were not set and that printing errors were corrected.
It was stated that grave mistakes had been made at times. One arithmetic paper had contained two problems that could not be solved, the Latin paper was misprinted, and the geography examination was so framed that only candidates with a good knowledge of iSouth America could pass, though they might have had a sound knowledge of Europe and other countries. —Press Assn,
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Northern Advocate, 19 June 1920, Page 5
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