244
I.,
II.,
III.,
IV.,
I.,
II.,
III.,
IV.,
PERCENTAGE of PASSES in EACH SUBJECT.
Anglo-Chinese Examination.
Total
Divisions.
Percentage
of Passes.
Copy Writing.
Reading.
Translation.
Chinese Characters.
93.00
93.00
50.00
100.00.
71.43
57.14
57.14
57.14
71.43
100.00
100.00
57.14
42.85
100.00
40.00
90,00
10.00
30.00
Chinese Examination.
Total
Classes.
Percentage
Essay Writing.
Letter Writing.
Prosody.
of Passes.
89
100
87
47
58
58
65
40
59
74
46
61
73
80
70
63
31
51
59
34
48
63
VI.,
12. There are five other Government Schools, outside the Central School, which give the same kind of education as that represented by the lower half of the Central School. These Schools made good progress in 1884. They act as feeders to the Central School, and I am glad to be able to report that the Headmaster of the Central School had occasion lately to express his satisfaction with the solidity of the elementary training given in those outside Schools, which evidenced itself by the rapid and steady progress made in the highest classes of the Central School by boys originally trained in those outside Government Schools. The remainder of the Government Schools, giving a purely Chinese education, call for no special remark.
13. The Grant-in-Aid Schools came, with the beginning of the year 1884, under the operation of the changes which were made in the Scheme in the year 1883, the required notice having been given some months before. These changes affected principally those Schools which the Scheme designates 'Schools in Class I.,' and which give a purely Chinese education, the other Schools being only so far affected as two new extra-subjects (Latin and book-keeping) were allowed. But in these purely Chinese Schools (Class I.) important changes were introduced. The value of a pass in Standard I. was reduced from $5 to $2, in Standard II. from $6. to $4, in Standard III. from $7 to $6. In Standard IV. the value of a pass was left unchanged, but in Standard V. the value of a pass was increased from $9 to $10, and in Standard VI. from $10 to $12. In addition to these changes the pensum of each Standard was extended, so that more work had to be done, in writing and repetition, and especially in the subject of geography, which was made to include the general outlines of the map of the world, and in Girls-schools a new subject (letter-writing) was made obligatory in the highest Standard. The object in view in making these changes was, in the first instance, to reduce the earning power of these inexpensive Chinese Schools, which hitherto earned abnormally high grants as compared with the grants earned by English Schools, covering generally 90 per cent. of their actual expenses. A second object, which the Government had in view in making these changes, was to give these Chinese Schools greater encouragement to bring more children under the teaching of the higher Standards (IV., V. and VI.), because a tendency had been observed, for many years past, of training children chiefly in the lower Standards of the Scheme in which passes could be obtained at the examination with comparative ease, but to bring forward as few scholars as possible into the higher Standards in which the risk of failure was much greater. Now this first year's trial of the working of the Scheme in its revised form is not sufficient to form a conclusive opinion as to the practical and permanent value of the changes made, and I defer therefore expressing any opinion as to whether the objects aimed at have been permanently achieved or not. But this much I may say
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