§ Mr. CROMBIE (Kincardineshire)To ask the Lord Advocate, whether he is aware that under the regulations for leaving certificates, a candidate who desires to take dynamics as an additional subject, though he has already passed in higher mathematics, is compelled to undergo another examination and pass again in the latter subject; and, if so, whether he will take steps to render the second examination in higher mathematics unnecessary.
(Answered by Mr. A. Graham Murray.) The rule in question has been adopted in order to check a tendency to cram up a special subject and to neglect the mathematical knowledge on which it ought to be based. Experience so far has confirmed the expediency of such a rule.