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We suggest that the details of our workshop courses
might perhaps be set forth in more attractive and con-
vincing form than they are at present in the University
Calendar, or as given in G.R. Para. 7.
We do not however support the suggestion (G.R.
Para. 58) that a formal examination be held at the end
of the year.
Our reasons are as follows:
(1) Workshop practice lends itself readily to con-
tinuous assessment, but not to rapid evaluation
within the limits of time of an ordinary written
or laboratory examination.
(ii) Our engineering students are already more than
sufficiently burdened with formal examinations.
Thus the Intermediate Examination (Part I)
involves 15 hours of written work and 9 hours of
practical work, or a total of 24 hours. Those
not exempted from English have 6 hours added,
making in all 30 hours.
Intermediate Examination (Part II) demands
18 hours written work, plus 6 hours of practical,
a total of 24 hours.
(By contrast, a Medical student at the end of
his First or his Second Year may have only
6 hours of examinations, and in no case need
have more than 18 hours.)
G.R. Para. 58 recommends that a student who in his
workshop courses evinces no aptitude for manual work
should be prevented or dissuaded from becoming a Mechanical
or Electrical Engineer. We agree that such a student is
unlikely to make a success in those branches, but also
think it most unlikely that he will require any dissuasion.
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