MATRICULATION.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4422, 2 June 1922, Page 1

MATRICULATION.

PASSING BY PROXY. At the Secondary School Assistants’ Conference at Wellington Mr. F. Martyn Renner offered some criticisms of the matriculation examination. “What precautions,,” he said, “have the authorities taken against ‘personation’ ? I heard only recently that a secondary school teacher was offered the sum of £2O 'if he would go down to Christchurch and sit for an examination there under the name of a candidate who had. .been unsuccessful in" previous years. “Why are the arrangements in the way of supervision and accommodation of candidates so bad in certain localities ? Here, in Wellington, the physics laboratory of Victoria College is often converted into an examination room. The seats are too close together, and rise in tiers one row above the other. It is the easiest thing in the world for pupils to see each ether’s papers, . j “No one can- make me believe that the examiners in .subjects like Eng- j lish., Latin, French, science, mathe- • matics, etc., can dp justice in their marking of these papers to individual candidates. The matriculation examination ends about December 10, ; the corrected papers have to be ad- J Indicated upon and the results pub- ; lished by about January 20. That is to say an examiner or examiners in certain subjects have to mark, tabulate, and report on well over a thousand papers in English', in mathematics, etc., in the short space of a little oyer three weeks. I say emphatically it can’t be done satisfactorily with any justice to the candi-} dates.”