UNIVERSITY SENATE.
TWO-HOUR AIATRICULATION PAPERS. AUCKLAND, January 24. The University Senate to-day discussed a motion —‘‘That the Entrance Examinations Committee whether two hours instead of three (as at present) should r* the time allowed for matriculation examination papers.” Professor Hight said that the present three-hour papers threw too much work on candidates and examiners. It was easy to select candidates on a shorter paper. . The number of candidates had become so large and the difficulty and expense of securing halls so great that some new method to lessen the work involved was essential. Mr Tibbs considered that the proposal would be hard on candidates who had no practice of examinations. Professor Hunter considered the present matriculation papers too rigid, altogether too long, and crammed with unnecessary detail. A lot of the questions now set were absurd, and their complexity was no test of tile child mind. Sir Robert Stout considered that if they lowered the time they would have to reduce the work, which would be injurious to the child by removing a choice of questions. The motion was carried.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3542, 31 January 1922, Page 24
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