ARMY PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS—ERRORS IN EXAMINATION PAPERS. (Hansard, 22 December 1888)

§ MR. KELLY) (for Mr. HUBBARD) (Bucks, N.) (Camberwell, N.
asked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether he will take steps to ensure, in future, the accuracy and suitability of Army Examination Papers, beyond the possibility of doubt?

§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON) (Leeds, N.)
, in reply, said: The Question of the hon. Member contained a rather strong order, which he was not quite sure it would be possible to carry out. He might say that the question had been brought before the Civil Service Commissioners, and he believed they had taken steps, as far as possible, to ensure the result asked for. They said they found that hitherto no steps had been taken to secure that the papers in the form in which they were distributed to the candidates had been looked through and tested by some competent authority before the examination began. They consider it necessary that this should be done, and it was intended to take steps to secure this result. Probably a better system would, in consequence, be devised. This answer would apply not to Army Examination Papers only, but to all Examination Papers.

§ MR. JACKSON
said, the Committee had had no Report before them in regard to any question except the one which had arisen in the House of Commons; and after inquiry it became apparent that a mistake had been committed in regard to the Examination Papers. The object of the inquiry had been to ensure that there should be no further mistake in regard to the Examination Papers.