Nurses Want Marks
HAMILTON. Feb. 6. Nurses throughout New Zealand are objecting to the new system of examination marking introduced last year. The Dominion president of the Student Nurses’ Association, Miss Marie Burgess, of Hamilton,- said that nurses throughout the country had agreed the new system was
poor and wanted a return to the old system. “A pass means a nurse may have got a mark anywhere between 50 and 74 per cent. We don’t think that is good enough. The nurses want to know their mark,” Miss Burgess said. “Those who fail will only know they achieved a mark less than 50 per cent But it is a help to any student to know by how much she
failed. Even the university system of granting letter marks from A to E would be better than the present system.” Under the new system the nurses are not told any actual marks, only that they have passed, failed or gained honours. The nurses say they have lost the only Indication they had of how well —or badly—they fared in the examinations.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30978, 7 February 1966, Page 2
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