Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 2. 1967.
Examination achieved purpose
Examination achieved purpose
NZSPA Reporter
Wellington — The new bursary examination is generally agreed to have achieved its main purpose—to give upper sixth-formers an incentive to work—in spite of criticisms that the delay in posting results until the first week of February may have inconvenienced intending university students.
Last year 3007 pupils sat the exam—many of them in the lower-sixth, sitting it instead of UE—and a 50 per cent pass gave candidates £50 annually, a 40 per cent pass £30, on top of the fees and allowance payments.
In many schools headmasters reported that all upper sixth-formers sat either burs or Scholarship, instead of many frittering the year away.
Complaints about the holdup in marking were brushed aside by the University Entrance Board secretary (Mr. W. O. Broad) who said no student would be delayed unduly deciding on whether to go out to work or proceed to university.
"After all, they have all qualified previously for fees and allowances," he said.