✨ Scholarship Examination Results
III.—SPELLING.
About thirty words of ordinary difficulty were selected promiscuously, but chiefly from the book in which the boys had just read. The words were written from dictation, the number of mistakes ranged from one by Wilkinson, junior, and four by Wilkinson, senior, to ten each by Dawson and Caygill, and fifteen by Jennings. The two latter boys have fallen off in their spelling. The number of marks allowed for accuracy being 100, five were taken off for each word mis-spelt, hence the table of marks will indicate the number, their papers the words, wrong by each boy.
IV.—WRITING.
The Writing is mostly good; Parson’s, Bean’s and Caygill’s very good; Jennings’ and the Wilkinsons’, good; the rest, fair.
V.—ARITHMETIC.
The older scholars had made considerable progress in this subject before their promotion from the ordinary schools. The paper, therefore, tended, in some measure, to test their skill in applying their knowledge. It also included some questions within the range of the boys at the “Ordinary Schools.” Caygill did his Arithmetic very well, obtaining 64 out of 100 marks; Wilkinson, senior, 52; Wilkinson, junior, and Merton, 47 each; Dawson, 32; the rest follow nearly in the order of their Scholarships. Triggs and Jennings, however, are very little in advance of their juniors. The younger Merton failed in Arithmetic.
VI. & VII.—HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.
Dawson’s and Wilkinson Junior’s papers are very creditable; Caygill’s and Merton’s very fair; the rest satisfactory, with the exception of Triggs and Jennings, who fail in these subjects.
VIII. & IX.—ALGEBRA AND EUCLID.
With the exception of Caygill, only the scholars of 1866 had commenced these branches. From the length of time the Wilkinsons had studied them, and from their former proficiency up to simultaneous equations in Algebra and the Third Book of Euclid; it was expected that they would have taken a similar position in Mathematics to that of Merton and Caygill in the Classics; but they appear to have forgotten much of what they had learned. Merton has obtained 40 out of 100 marks in Algebra; Wilkinson Junior, 31; Wilkinson Senior, 28; Caygill, 10. The Euclid is inconsiderable, Wilkinson Junior obtains 15 marks; Merton, 8; Caygill, 6.
The study of Mathematics does not keep pace with that of Classics.
X.—FRENCH.
Caygill is construing Télémaque, the Wilkinsons and Merton Chambaud’s Fables; Dawson and Bean have commenced the subject.
The French have hitherto been most unsystematically taught, first the construing and then, or not at all, the verbs; on such a plan boys cannot fairly get up their lessons; they must have recourse to cribs or other adventitious aids. The habit of mind so engendered is demoralising, and prejudicial to their other work.
XI.—LATIN.
Caygill has done well; he has obtained 76 out of 100 marks. He is construing Virgil and Cæsar, has a tolerably good knowledge of the Grammar, excepting the irregular verbs, and has made some progress in Latin Prose Composition. Merton has also done well, having obtained 66 marks; Wilkinson, junior, 43. The work of the other boys is much more elementary.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1870, No 3
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Special Report on Boys Holding Government Scholarships
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🎓 Education, Culture & ScienceScholarships, Examination, Education, Boys, Academic Performance
36 names identified
- junior Wilkinson, Spelling performance
- senior Wilkinson, Spelling performance
- Dawson, Spelling performance
- Caygill, Spelling performance
- Jennings, Spelling performance
- Parson, Writing performance
- Bean, Writing performance
- junior Wilkinson, Writing performance
- senior Wilkinson, Writing performance
- Jennings, Writing performance
- Caygill, Arithmetic performance
- senior Wilkinson, Arithmetic performance
- junior Wilkinson, Arithmetic performance
- Merton, Arithmetic performance
- Dawson, Arithmetic performance
- Triggs, Arithmetic performance
- Jennings, Arithmetic performance
- Dawson, History and Geography performance
- junior Wilkinson, History and Geography performance
- Caygill, History and Geography performance
- Merton, History and Geography performance
- Triggs, History and Geography performance
- Jennings, History and Geography performance
- Caygill, Algebra and Euclid performance
- junior Wilkinson, Algebra and Euclid performance
- senior Wilkinson, Algebra and Euclid performance
- Merton, Algebra and Euclid performance
- Caygill, French performance
- junior Wilkinson, French performance
- senior Wilkinson, French performance
- Merton, French performance
- Dawson, French performance
- Bean, French performance
- Caygill, Latin performance
- Merton, Latin performance
- junior Wilkinson, Latin performance