Minutes of evidence taken by the Royal Commissioners appointed to consider the draft charter for the proposed Gresham University in London ... / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Minutes of evidence taken by the Royal Commissioners appointed to consider the draft charter for the proposed Gresham University in London ... / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1319/1410 (page 83)
    Explanation of t A separate number is to be recorded of the reply to each question attempted by the Candidate. The number 4 will indicate that the Examiner is fully satisfied with the answer. The numbers 1, 2, and 3, will indicate less degrees of merit; 1 being the lowest judgment which contributes to pass a Candidate, so far as the particular question under consideration is concerned. The judgment 0 will indicate that the question has been attempted, but that no credit can be given for the reply. If it be necessary to record discredit, the Examiner will write bad or very had. Poem of Report. Appendix A double tick [„] will indicate that the question has ■No- 4l,K not been attempted. The number 5, which should be used sparingly, -w ill indicate that the answer, besides being complete, does unusual credit to the Candidate. If an Examiner deems it essential to make more minute distinctions, he can use the numbers |, 14, 2|, 3|; but it will be found convenient to avoid fractions as much as possible. The Examiners are particularly requested not to employ decimals, which have some- times led to error. Scales of Judgments to be used in the Column headed Resultant Award. Honour Judgments. O *3 a S Opt. h i2 i. i Optime, First Class + 3. First Class + 2. First Class + 1. First Class, - | sill E-~ a go a sg& a -mi 2, o Second Class + 3. Second Class + 2. Second Class + 1. Second Class. The highest judgment, and one which should be awarded only for very rare merit. By the judgment First Class is to be understood that the credit awarded to the candidate for his answering in the subject in which your Board has examined him is so good as to entitle him to a place in the First Honour Class if the other conditions under which he can obtain this position be fulfilled. The additions + 3, + 2, and + 1, imply that the candidate has more or less to spare above what would barely entitle him to First Class Honours. A similar meaning at- taches to the judgment Second Class, Third Class, and Fourth Class. a a 3M.5 b/>aO oifi 3:i 32 3, 3 Third Class + 3. Third Class + 2. Third Class + 1. Third Class. r ■3 SPjg |-2 | a a <s^.~ > 3. 43 42 4, 4 Fourth Class + 3. Fourth Class + 2. Fourth Class + 1. Fourth Class. § > % j) if Rej. May Pass if - Rejected unless Rejected Pessime - For explanation of these judgments, see the Pass Judgments. Pass Judgments. Valde. Valde, . 3:1 Third Class + 3. O Tiitrd Class + 2.' 3 Third Class + 1. 3 Third Class. 4;t Fourth Class 3. 42 Fourth Class + 2. 4, Fourth Class + 1. 4 Fourth Class - if May Pass if - tin. Rejected Unless Rej. Rejected Pessime By which is to be understood very unusually good. By Fourth Class, without further addition, is to be understood that the answering of the candidate is barely such as to entitle him to pass, if he have satisfied to the same extent his Examiners in the other subjects. This judgment implies that the Board is not satisfied with the candidate's performance, but that the deficiency is slight enough to warrant his being allowed to pass, it' his answering in other subjects bring the average of his judgments up to the Pass level. Means that the answering of the candidate is bad, and that unless it be better in every one of the other subjects, or if the average of his judgments do not reach the Pass level, the Board thinks that he ought not to pass. Means that the answering of the candidate is so bad that the Board is unable to recommend that he be allowed to pass, however well he may have done in other subjects. Means that the candidate has exhibited no glimmering whatever of knowledge of the subject in which the Board has examined him. This judgment should be used very sparingly.