§ Mr. WILLIAM YOUNGERasked the Secretary of State for War whether he would state the average number of candidates per annum for the qualifying examination for Sandhurst since September, 1905, and the percentage of candidates during that period who failed; the percentage of such candidates who failed to qualify in mathematics; and the number of candidates who failed to pass the medical test for eyesight since 1905?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Mr. Haldane)It is not possible to state what proportion of the candidates attending the Army qualifying examination are candidates for Sandhurst. The average number of candidates presenting themselves at this examination since its institution in September, 1905, is 858 per annum. The percentage who failed to qualify is 51, and of these failures 67 per cent, failed in elementary mathematics. The number of candidates medically examined for Sandhurst during the same period who failed to pass the eyesight test is 30.