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E already registered. The consideration in this way shown to teachers is of more importance than clearness in the statement of results. The results, however, appear with sufficient clearness in the following table :—

Table B.—Candidates for Full Examination.

Of the 37 candidates who failed for Class D, 29 have either passed for Class E on former occasions or have obtained " partial pass " before, so that 8 only go to swell the list of absolute failures; these added to 162 failures for E make up 170 absolute failures. Many of those who failed have failed once, twice, thrice, or oftener, up to nine times, this being the ninth annual examination. There are 93 cases of first failure, which with the other cases are enumerated in the next table.

Table C. —Unsuccessful Candidates, 1886.—Number of Failures.

The records of the Department now contain the names of 562 candidates that have failed once or oftener, and have not yet passed beyond the stage of failure. Some of them continue year after year to make the attempt to pass. 327 have failed once only. 2 have failed seven times. 142 „ twice. 2 „ eight „ 50 „ three times. 1 „ nine „ 23 „ four „ 11 „ five „ 562 „ once or oftener. 4 „ six „ Some of those who have failed appear to have given up the attempt: the records show that— of 33 candidates the last (or sole) failure was in 1879, „ 67 „ „ 1880, „ 53 „ „ 1881, „ 69 „ „ 1882, „ 27 „ „ 1883, „ 32 „ „ 1884, „ 29 „ „ 1885 (January), „ 82 „ „ 1885 (December), „ 170 „ „ 1886. 562 candidates have not passed beyond the stage of failure. The whole number of persons who have at some time or other been in correspondence with the Department with a view to obtaining certificates is 3,721, as the following list shows .—

u CD .Q . Is fc.g 13 O Candidates. TO CD CO eg Ph co •S X TO ft 3 <S to "£ eg G 3 CD O eg EH eg H JC "© i W '3 OD a a o .9 -r. o O 3 © © M TO a ce CO J 3 o 3 cci o Si g| c3 o T3 d 3 d 3 to -p O rj2 / Passed A Passed for Class E .. | | Partially successful for Class D ps J Partially successful for Class E H I Completed exam, for Class E r° I Failed completely .. I Absent pq (Passed g to J Partially successful Pq ja 1 Failed completely 5 (Absent 50 [2] 2 ..!.. 8 I 1 7 1 1 1 1 4 17 1 6 1 14 [2] 11 2 *36 .. 1 .. [2]2 .. .. 37 123 .. .. 162 102 199 2 "i 1 1 i' 2 1 i .4 1 n 3 10 39 71 8 1 1 2 3 5 1 1 1 3 5 7 2 4 1 1 ; io 6 i i 7 7 2 3 3 9 26 22 3 2 13 "l 1 1 1 1 3 7 10 2 140 33 i' 7 2 1 3 9 2 "2 5 4 19 11 2 5 7 1 22 Totals 85 I 35 159 8 13 22 28 4 17 13 5 68 26 91 181 *1 :o the! 'wo of these candidates also completed thence four candidates. ixaminatii m for E, a] id two p; issed for Class E. 'he fij jures in b: rackets reli tte

CLAS! E. Class D. Number of Failures to Bate. o a 3 pq 'ffi cd w eg a eg o "So .9 f o o 13 3 c3 to © p-1 d c3 Q r" 1 M d O 02 o O a 03 B o 02 H O o H ft o CQ o H o o 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 37 21 8 2 3 1 1 2 2 1 4 1 1 1 7 4 1 8 1 2 2 1 1 1 14 5 1 1 1 4 4 2 88 36 22 5 4 4 1 1 1 5 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 'i 2 i i i l i i l 7 6 1 9 1 11 7 71 7 5 22 10 162