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198 UNIVERSITY LOCAL EXAMINATIONS.
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In The Years 1857 And 1858, Examinations...
tending ; to encourage a mere superficial acquirement of barren knowledge . These questions test the thoughtfulness of the student
as much as his general acquaintance with facts , and could not be answered satisfactorily by the pupils of careless or ignorant teachers .
Much interesting information may be gathered from the annual Reports of the Oxford Delegacy , and the Cambridge Syndicate :.
As these reports may , not be accessible to many of our readers , we give some extracts . The following remarks are taken from the
First Annual Report of the Oxford Delegacy . " The results of this first experiment have taken le by surprise .
Surprise has been expressed at the number of candidates many , peop at the great variety of schools from which they come , and above all , at the very great number of failures .
tunities occasion " The of , Delegate nor knowing had s they certainl the been schools y led did . to Indeed not do expect so , there by those so can m who any be no had candidates doubt the best that on oppor many this
the expectation were certific sent in ates of , rather their should passing to be accustom looked . The on them Delegates as prizes to a trial beyond , how of ever this the , do reac kin not d h , than of consider all with but that the the
their schoolmasters cleverest pupils boys who sent , and were in therefore not nearl merel y of rej y the a oice few age , rather p prescribed icked than specimens . regret The , but , standard to all see those that fixed among many was
be certainl no doubt y not that one in attainable a few only b when y boys the of wh superior ole scheme intellect has ; become and there better cart the understood proportion , and of an successful idea of years what candidates , is required will has be much become larger familiar . It in has schools been *
objected to the scheme that it would tempt schoolmasters to neglect their _, dull boys in order to push the more clever . Though the evil of this is often _^ much sometimes much to lthat school
master exaggerated ought to keep , ( down the even clever so to the so level as of imp the y dull , ) a yet the - danger is not altogether imaginary . And there was reason to fear , that , just
serious at first , . till It the is leniency a subject of of the satisfaction standard that adopted even became from the known beg , inning it mig there ht be seems to have been little cause for apprehension on this account .
be pated " read That from y to candidates the put beg themselves inning should . into It come was relation from expected a with great that the variety the University grammar of schools , and schools was there antici would was
direct evidence that many commercial and private schools were eagerly desirous of some means of publicly proving to the world that they were not neglecting their duty . ...
Preliminary " The great Examination bulk of the . And failures it would was caused be quite by a inability mistake to to pass conclude the that On the none other were han fit d to it must pass not this be examination denied that , but this is those the who weak actuall side or y school did so - .
work the chief ; indeed benefit , many of , the very whole intelligent lan consisted schoolmaster . in the s had aid that previousl it would y spoken ive them as if " in their efforts to ground boys p well iii elementary knowledge before g pushing _,
them ; "In forward English into composition higher subjects , the great * mass of the exercises wereindifferent there in every were respect numerous . Punctuation errors of grammar we found and almost orthograp universall hy , and y disregarded _^ even those ;
expressions exercises which , words were used free in from wrong such senses gross , or faults placed , were together full of in incorrect wrong combinations . ...
had . " to The be an jud swers ged in with anal great ysis leniency and Eng . lish It grammar was evident were th not at the creditable principles , and oi ?
198 University Local Examinations.
198 UNIVERSITY LOCAL EXAMINATIONS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/54/
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