UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE
THIRD-YEAR CANDIDATES FAILURES INEVITABLE HIGH SCHOOL RECTOR'S VIEWS [I»T TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION"] BUXEDIN. Friday The rector of the Otago Boys' High School, in a report to tho board of governors, wrote: —"The absurd total of 90 candidates has entered for the University entrance examination. Of these .18 are in their third year, whereas tho examination is supposed to he designed for a four-year course. On tho average passes per roll number for the last 25 years moro. than half of these 90 candidates are destined to fail. The anxiety of parents -to got their boys into employment before their chances are adversely affected by ago seems to havo accentuated tho absurdity this vear."
The chairman, Mr. W. I?. Brugh, said that if two tables showing the passes of pupils in the previous examinations and recommendations by the rector wero kept it would show the futility of sending certain boys forward to sit for the examination, if all schools were to do that it would be a benefit. This course was decided npon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23175, 22 October 1938, Page 15
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