FIRST-GRADE DRAWING EXAMINATIONS.
In the repent first-grade drawing examinations in the 'Wellington district, 6381 papers were worked. The papers passed numbered 3856, and the papers which failed 2525. There were 4532 candidates presented, of whom .3082 passed. The examiners, Mr A. D. Riley, director of the Technical School, and Miss M. E. Eiohardson, state, with reference to the freehand drawing, that the proportion of the figure was very fair, but the details of the centre were generally faulty, and greater attention is still urged to the method of blocking in the figure, and also to the position of the scholars in drawing freehand examples, a stooping or writing position bein'* fatal to good work. The results of the geometry drawing are described as exceedingly satisfactoiy, but in scale work the results are not so satisfactory as that of last year, the instruction being confined too much to chart and copy work instead of from actual measurement of objects. In model drawing it is evident that the method of drawing the board first and using the ground plan of the objects as a base to work upon is not sufficiently used.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3261, 19 October 1897, Page 3
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190FIRST-GRADE DRAWING EXAMINATIONS. New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3261, 19 October 1897, Page 3
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