Prognostic value of university entrance examinations in Scotland.

Date:: 1934

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Credit: Prognostic value of university entrance examinations in Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Certificate average in Mathematics; but it is surprising that the Classical Honours graduates should not only be surpassed in Latin by the mathematicians, but should be at the bottom of the list in English, lower even than the B.Sc.s. Are we to infer that a good many able boys—the case seems to be somewhat different with girls—take Latin at school for traditional reasons but specialise in other subjects when they go to college? Other facts already noted seem to point in that direction.