WORLD'S BIGGEST EXAM
20,000 EX-SERVICEMEN SIT
Electric Telegraph—Press Association LONDON, July 6. The world’s biggest examination has commenced at Olympia and thir-ty-three other centres in Britain, twenty thousand ex-servicemen are presenting themselves in order to qualify for permanent posts in the Civil Service. They are mostly thirty-five to forty years of age.
The papers include English, precis writing, arithmetic and general knowledge. There is no trick question, a typical one being “briefly outline the events leading to the war in 1914.” “What is meant by Imperial Preference. Show by examples how it could bo worked.” The results will ha announced in the autumn, owing to the multitude of papers, which were collected in a large clothes basket.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9978, 8 July 1925, Page 5
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117WORLD'S BIGGEST EXAM Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9978, 8 July 1925, Page 5
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