MARKING AT EXAMINATIONS.
Sir, —The usual method of examiner*, that of fixing a maximum and deducting . marks for mistakes, is often a. fallacious way of comparing the work of candidates, aha should give place to a more intelligent method. For instance, an examiner reports: "The average marks for the French compositions was zero." That could only happen if some candidates earned less than those who made _ no. attempt whatever. Another, examiner gloats, "Every pitfall had. its victims." A clear illustration of my point is the slip made by "Dcux-Pattes." No doubt ho has followed his own advice to "read, read, read, from dawn to dark," but so muddled is French "as sho is spoke" that, after all his reading, he cannot writ* one phras* of five words without falling in. ' ' If " dawn " is feminine, "dark" ought / also to be so, but it isn't. For there is ( neither rhyme nor reason about French genders, and about many of its:' "idioticisms." The only weighty matter _ in French is intelligent thought-grasping. Not many of the candidates had ingenuity enough to translate "Deux-Pattes" as "godfather." A Feathekless Biped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18897, 20 December 1924, Page 9
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