.CANNOT FAIL

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 431, 16 January 1933, Page 3

.CANNOT FAIL

EXAMINATION GENIUS SCHOLASTIC YOUNG MAN'S REMARKABLE • GIFT. THRIVING ON STUDY. An enviable record of scbolastic - merit is held by Mr. Clifford George Jarrett, "the man who cannot fail in an examination." He is only 22 years old. His latest triumph in the examination room is the gaining of "firsts" in all three departments of the first division Civil Service examination, the Indian, the Home and the Diplomatic and Consular. Dover is Mr. Jarrett's home town. His father is a photographer there, and it was at St. Mary's School, Dover, that he first revealed his genius for examinations. He won a free scholarship to Dover Country School, where he gained all the honours a boy could gain — not only academically, 'but at games as well. ' Then 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 language ■and then a first in the history tripos. • ' 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 Home Office. When asked 'how he did it he modestly explained that he had a "kink" for examin'ations. "Really it is nothing," he added. '"I won't pretend it did not mean some work — but, well, it just depends. Some people crumple up, however 'much they know, as soon as they get in the examination room. And others don't I have the latter "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 purposes after midnight." There is nothing of the boolcworm about him. He is an athletic young man with a shy engaging smile. "Now I ara getting on with ray job," he said, '"and, of course, I hope to rise in the Civil Service. I took the three departments so that I might stand more 'chance of a vacancy. There was one ht the Home Office, and at Home Office I am. "My examinations have certainly involved a lot of reading, but I am 'still an ill-read man. There is so much reading on any subject that, really, there is no time. I don't know when my next examination will be or whether I shall take any more. But . . ."