"ENDURANCE TEST"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 9

"ENDURANCE TEST"

Freas Association.)

Matriculation Arithmetic Paper

(By Telegraph—

"DUNEDIN, Dee. 15. / The unfavourable opinions concern-' ing the matrieulation examinatioo papers, more particularly the oue covering arithmetic, which have been uttered by the principals of the main schools in Wellington, were echoed in Dunedin. In general it "was held that the arithmetic paper was very difficult, and to some extent the same opinion applied to algebra and chemistry. At the same time, in three quarters it was considered that due allowance. would be made by examiners when the marking oi the papers was taking place, Mr. H. P. Kidson, rector of the Otago Boys' High School, said that a few oi the papers possessod unusual features, some of which were good and some not, Ihe arithmetic paper was unusual, anc at least one of the questions was un satisfactory. It was a pity that anj paper should be set that was difficull enough to arouse comment. He thought the English paper had been of a very good type. Miss King, principal of the Otagt Girls' High School, said the arithmetic paper was an endurance test rathei than , anything else. It was on the difficult side, was too long a paper, and it required too much working out.