EXAMINATION PAPERS
SOME DISSATISFACTION EXPRESSED. By Telegraph— Press Association> WELI, ING TO X. December 15.
Considerable dissatisfaction was caused among matriculation students and the headmasters of schools they attended, by the difficult arithmetic papers set for this year’s examination. A further cause of complaint is the appearance of a mistake in the first section ol the geometry paper.
One mathematics master declared that the arithmetic paper was stiff enough for a degree examination. He would not guarantee to do more than 65 per cent, of the questions himself.
For matriculation or university entrance only a mathematics genius could tackle the paper and a great majority of boys would not do it after four years at a secondary school. The arrangement of the arithmetic paper has also given rise to dissatisfaction. It is understood the paper was badly arranged in that a note at the top of a page stated equal values would not be <zi veil for emh question. The usual manner, if different values are allowed for questions, is to indicate the respective marking for individual questions. | The mistake in the geometarv paper was in the first section of question six.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19301215.2.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1930, Page 1
Word count
Tapeke kupu
192EXAMINATION PAPERS Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1930, Page 1
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in