Accountancy Examinations
Sir, —As another unsuccessful candidate in Bookkeeping 111 at the recent accountancy examinations for the second year in succession, I wish to endorse the remarks of Mr. Willis, published in your paper of December 28. In my ignorance I hitherto imagined that an examination was supposed to be a fair test of a conscientious year’s work, but that is apparently not so. The test is one of speed and the examination one frantic rush from start to finish. Under such conditions it is impossible to do one's best work. I do not suggest that the problems be made simpler but that adequate time should be given in. which to answer them.
As an M.A. of the University of New Zealand I have had some experience of examinations. I have never failed to pass in any subject before and have put more work into Bookkeeping 111 than into any other subject of my career. I, too, feel that the society is unreasonable and that it is demanding more, than the average, and the more-than-average, candidate can perform.—l am, etc., ‘ E. ST. JOHN. Taumarunui, January 2.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 13
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186Accountancy Examinations Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 13
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