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HONGKONG.

No. 39

1907

REPORT BY THE EXAMINERS OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, FOR THE YEAR 1906-1907.

Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of

His Excellency the Governor.

EDUCATION Department, HONGKONG, 3rd October, 1907.

We visited and inspected the College in July.

GENERAL REMARKS.

1. Discipline throughout the school is very good. The work shewn up was on the whole neat and tidy and the handwriting was generally speaking good. There were one or two minor blemishes: it is not necessary for boys to waste time in copying out the questions asked, some boys confined their answers to this; in some classes boys did not write their names on the papers sent in. Class I B were the chief offenders in this respect. There were four anonymous papers in Grammar and three in Shakspere in this division. Boys should be told to leave a margin as it greatly facilitates the work of correction.

2. We gathered the impression that some boys particularly in the upper classes did not make much effort to do well. When they had filled one sheet of paper they were content to stop-possibly they were reluctant to ask for inore paper or they may have felt that the examination was of little importance as it did not affect their position in Class.

3. A portion of the Lower School has comparatively recently been placed under the supervision of a normal master with excellent results. The boys in the Lower School generally, many of whom have studied English for quite a short time, tried their best and attempted to converse and answer questions in their own words. In the higher classes some boys feeling secure of their position in the school struck us as somewhat slothful.