PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 31, 26 June 1914, Page 3

PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS.

ALTEKATIONri TO BE MADE. The Education Department proposes ■i lrake some alterations in connection with the Junior National Scirolurs-hips, .■(• Public Service Entrance Examinaiiai, and the Intermediate Examination. It is proposed to bring these new regu-lation-H into force at the forthcoming November examination.

In. reporting on tfte matter to the Education Board on Wednesday, the In-

spectors (.Messrs Ballantyne and Whetter) stated:—"ln the case of the junior National Scholarship and the Intermediate Examinations, the alterations ot perhaps very Material, but it is otherwise in the case of tlyj Public u'lvice Entrance Examiuation, in which .ome radical Changes are contemplated. 'Jenerally speaking, it requires for the latter examination two years' preparaon the part of the candidate, and hence we feel that nc, radical chang-.: should be introduced without giving at least a full year's notice to enable 'candidates to make their studies fit in with (he new conditions. Under the proposed regulations for the Public Service Entrance Examination, the marks for Elementary Practical Agriculture are raided from 300 to 400, shorthand 100 to 300, the speed test being also rai*d from 00 to 80 words a mi mi to; Creek, Italian and Spanish have ibeen excised altogether i- r sl*?l s o£ tl,c marks '" agriculture and slrorthaml certainly gives an undue advantage to tho-e candidates who are fortunate enough to have previously sc. tectod these objects; on the other hand, »V the exclusion of Greek, Italian, and Spanish, a candidate who may have ineluded any one of those subjects in his cow, e; of study is placed at a very grea disadvantage inasmuch that he (lias at a very short notice to substitute some other subject. While we are of opinS, that th,. proposed aUeraotion* are on at the proposed alterations are on n ont ™l°i IW , ** ro, «S*y ™W> the Departfor e hef l H™£ * M t ' r «g*«««B into PJls!" examinations, The report was- adopted.