COMMERCIAL EXAMINATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 38, 14 February 1930, Page 8

COMMERCIAL EXAMINATIONS

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —In a recent issue of your paper there appeared the.report of the Wellington Technical College. As a parent, I perused this report with a great deal of interest, as I have for some years closely watched the progress of our Technical College. • The examination results are most satisfactory, but there is one point on which I would like to have information. The Director,- in setting out the number of passes in the shorthand examinations; gives also the number of candidates who sat in each case, but no such information is supplied in the case of the accountancy examination, although- the Director states that there was generally a much larger proportion of successes than iv the previous year. Such a statement is gratifying, and must be very pleasing to both teachers and students, but I would like to know how many candidates from the college entered for each subject. It seems rather extraordinary that in certain subjects there was a "largo number of successes, while in two other subjects of the same examination the number of successful candidates is very small, indicating that, iv view of Mr. Howell's statement that "there was generally a much larger proportion of successes than m the previous year," there must be substantial variation in the size of the classes. When one refers to an increase representing "a much larger proportion of successes, it must be assumed that there are very small classes in auditing and book-keeping 11. as compared with the other subjects. This is hard to understand, and I think Mr. Howell should supply those interested with figures showing the number of candidates from the college m the same way as he does for the other commercial examinations. Perhaps, Sir, you could obtain this information.—l am. etc., '

PARENT.

[Mr. John H. How'ell, Director, replies as follows: "We have no knowledge of the number of students who sit for examinations m the evening school, as they do not enter through the college. With regard to the number of students attending the classes,.full particulars are furnished to tiie board three times annually and may then be published if the papers consider it of sutfipient interest."]