Government of Bengal. Education Department. Office of the Inspector of European Schools Bengal. Annual Report of the Higher Grade Schools’ Final and Scholarship Examinations 1940

The following were the comments of the examiners on the scripts submitted:— English language.—Every examinee should realise the importance of answering the questions that are asked. [...] In correcting the English language scripts it was frequently found that a pupil who wrote four or five times the number of words required for the paragraph would on the other hand write Only a quarter of the words specified for the essay which bore by far the major share of the marks. [...] The following comments may prove of use to teachers :— Question 1. (Memory Passages.) (a) Slakespeare: While most of the candidates knew the words of the passage many were ignorant of the line-division and punctuation. [...] in describing how to use a simple mercury barometer instead of stating clearly that the distance from the mercury in the trough to the top of the column of mercury in the tube is measured the following was typical : "the readings can be taken". [...] There is always some physical principle involved the phenomena should be clearly explained in terms of this principle."14 Centre of gravity.—In this question there was an error in the printing of the radius of the smaller disc.