PAPERS APPROVED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 137, 6 December 1929, Page 6

PAPERS APPROVED

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day.

The standard of papers which have so far been set for the University Entrance Examination, was discussed by Mr. H. J".- D. Mahon, headmaster of the Auckland .Grammar School.'

Mr. Mahon said that on the' whole the. papers provided, a welcome change I from those which had been set in previous years." The English ' paper: was quite a good one, aud the second paper particularly offered great scope for composition. The mathematic paper had been considerably more difficult than usual, but that was a change in the right direction, as it had been far too easy, for candidates to get through the examination. In both arithmetic and algebra, which was too simple in the past, there was a marked improvement. ■ Askea if he. would comment upon a complaint made in Wanganui rigard™g \r c dlffieulty °f the chemistry piper, Mr. Mahon said the paper was on quite sound lines, as it encouraged practical work and discouraged "cramming." .liie paper was consistent with the requirements laid down in the syllabus J. have discussed the complaint with the science staff, and far from having :any criUdsms to level against it, the? heartily approve-the paper," he added . in fact, I feel sure that there is nothing wrong with any of the papers so