CANDIDATES FAIL
BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE
POOR RESULTS BY GIRLS
LONDON. D t o. 17. I lie Civil .Service Commission examiners report that 70S of the OHO girls u ho sat lor the recent examination failed.
Hundreds oi candidates could not read their notes of shorthand dictated :l1 G'om (ill (o ,S(I words a minute. ()ill >' 1" of tile !).’!(I obtained full marks.
One hundred and thirty did not secure anv marks in the typewriting' test ol :!() words a minute. M'nnv Ifni nod only live marks out of a possible 200. Only 41 got full marks in arithmetic.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16839, 31 December 1928, Page 8
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97CANDIDATES FAIL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16839, 31 December 1928, Page 8
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