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Mathematic.-Arithmetic.-Good in the lower standards, poor in IV, V and VI and good in Standard VII. This subject will have to receive more attention in the new year.
Geometry.Good. If a proposition is continued on a new page the figure should be drawn again to facilitate the proof being checked. Geometrical Drawing-Standard VI good, VII very good. The inking
in of the drawings is a great improvement.
Algebra. Standard V very fair. The average was brought down by several complete failures. Standard VI fair only. Standard VII distinctly good and a great advance on the two lower standards. Book-keeping. This subject is taken in Standard VII only. The work was fairly accurate and the commercial terms were well known.
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Latin. The upper classes VI and VII suffered as this subject had to be dropped during the preparation of pupils for the Oxford Local Examinations. Class V where the study was not interrupted did well.
Chinese-Reading and Composition were done in Standards I to III only, and transla- tion from and into Chinese in Standards V, VI and VII. Standard IV appears to be omitted. Realing and composition should be contiv- ued up to Standard V at least.
Reading.-Standard I fair to poor. boys were quite unable to read. requires more attention.
Standard II good on the whole but 5 III fair to poor. Reading certainly
Composition.-Very fair, but each class had a tail consisting of boys who
knew nothing.
Translation from Chinese into English.-Standard VI very fair, Standard VII good, but only 4 boys in all showed up papers in these two standards. In V 8 boys did translation. Two did well, the remainder badly and among them 3 wrote nonsense.
English into Chinese.--Standard VI did well as did Standard VII but in the former some boys did not know the Chinese title for the Registrar-General ! In the same standard one boy did not knew the form in which a Chinese petition should be written.
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Chinese seems to be somewhat neglected and should receive more attention. be well to class the boys in Chinese according to their attainments and not according to the English Class they are in. The present system tends to keep good boys back.
Grant.-I again return the school as "thoroughly efficient" and recommend a grant at the rate of 35/-.
* No. 9.-St. Mary's, Kowloon.
Stoff-Four Sisters of Mercy and one Assistant Teacher.
Discipline and Organization.-Good.
Sanitation.-Very satisfactory.
Floor Space.-Sufficient for 152 pupils.
Apparatus.-Satisfactory,
English.- Reading.-Good in all standards except I. The pupils read too fast and somewhat inaccurately in the upper standards. The subject matter of the reading is fairly well understood.
Colloquial.--Fair except in Standards IV and I where it was distinctly poor.
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