THRIVES ON STUDY

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1932, Page 8

THRIVES ON STUDY

‘•KINK” FOR EXAMINATIONS

YOUNG MAN’S ACHIEVEMENTS

LONDON, December 8. An enviable record of scholastic merit

is held by Mr Clifford George Jarrett,

“the man who cannot IVd in an examination.” He is only 22 yiaars old. His latest triumph in the examination loom is the gaining of “firsts” in all three departments of the first division Civil Service examination, th e Indian, the Home and tlla. Diplomatic and Gonstilar. ' - ' '," r . “•• - Dover is Mr Jarrett’s : home town. ■ Kekwo.n a free • scholarship to Dover Gounty' iSclioo], where’'he gained ‘all the honours a poy could gam—not only academically, but at games as we.i. TICn he won a State scholarship to Cambridge University and a major scholarship as well. He went up to Sidney Sussex College, and for four years- went 'steadily along from one examination triumph to another. He obtained a first in modern languages and then a first in the history tr'pos. After that he did a little quiet study in between playing cricket and football—and achieved the triple distinction which led recently to his appointment to a first division clerkship at the Hom e Office. When asked how he did it he 'modestly explained- that ho had a “kink” , for examinations.

“IVially it is - nothing,” he added. “I won’t pretend 'it did not mean some work—but, well, it just depends. Some people crumple’’up, howevfi'- much they know, as goon a-s they get in ttya examination room. And others don't. .1 have the latte r ‘kink,’ I never believe in burning the midnight oil. Six hours’ hard swotting'-work is enough 'for any man. I have, never opened a book for study purpose after midnight,” There is nothing of the bookworm about him. He is an athletic young man with s hy engaging smile. “Now I am getting on with my job,” he said, “acd, of course, I hop? to rise in the Civil Service. I took the three department? so that I might stand more chance of a vacancy. There was one at the Home Office, and at the Homo Office I am.

“My examinations have certainly involved a lot of reading, but I am still an ill-'reac-l mall. There is -so much Pead'ing on any ..subject that, irea-Ily here is no tinC. 1 don’t know when my next examination will be or whether I shall take any more. But. . .”