§ MR. HELME (Lancashire, Lancaster)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Board of Education if he will consider the I advisability of rescinding the regulation preventing information being given as to the marks obtained by candidates for King's Scholarships who fail to obtain a place in the second class.
§ THE PARLIMENTARY SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF TRADE (Sir I WILLIAM ANSON, Oxford University)The marks obtained by individual candidates in the King's Scholarship Examination: have never been published up till the year 1900 inclusive; the list was arranged in such a way as to show which candidates obtained exactly the same number of marks. In the year 1901 this arrangement was; given up in favour of a system of bracketing candidates in divisions of equal merit within each class. After careful consideration the Board of Education are of opinion that the system has great advantages over that previously in force, as it avoids attempts to discriminate between the merits of candidates whose marks only differ very slightly, and they are of opinion that to publish the exact number of marks obtained by each candidate would be of no real value to the candidate and of no advantage to the conduct of the examinations.