South Australia - Education

Cramming, Examinations and "Howlers"

"Cramming in Schools" is discussed in the Register,
3 November 1884,
Chronicle,
15 November 1884, page 5a,
"Results and Cram" in the Advertiser,
28 December 1891, page 3d.

"Cramming Clever Children" is in the Observer,
30 October 1897, page 41a,
"Cramming and School Examination" in the Register,
5 December 1898, page 4e,
"Education and Cram" on
8 August 1900, page 4c.

"Cramming Clever Children" is in the Register,
23 October 1897, page 4f,
"A Crammed Schoolboy" on
25 June 1903, page 4d,
"The Cram for Exam" on
3 December 1907, page 9g,
"Stop Cramming" on
2 June 1917, page 7b,
"Human Tadpoles - The Cramming of Children" on
18, 20, 21, 25 and 27 November 1903, pages 5i, 3d, 6h, 9c and 3f.

"Overworking Children" is in the Observer,
20 August 1898, page 33a.

"Competitive Examinations" is in the Register,
20 July 1858, page 2e,
Observer,
24 and 31 July 1858, pages 5h-6d and 6g,
14 August 1858, page 6g,
24 September 1859, page 6c,
1 and 8 October 1859, pages 6c-7a and 3c-5h,
12 May 1860, page 5g,
23 June 1860, page 2f,
26 August 1860, page 3b.

Also see Advertiser,
9 and 21 September 1859, pages 2d and 2f,
Register,
18 January 1860, page 3d,
19 and 29 June 1860, pages 3f and 2h,
19 July 1860, page 3c,
9, 11 and 19 December 1861, pages 2g, 3a and 2c,
18 February 1862, page 3d,
25 April 1862, page 2g,
17 and 29 July 1862, pages 2b and 3f,
31 July 1863, page 3g,
17 November 1863, page 3c,
19 December 1863, page 2c.

Also see Observer,
3 May 1862, page 1e (supp.),
27 September 1862, page 5e,
1 November 1862, page 5g,
6 December 1862, page 1a (supp.),
1 August 1863, page 3d,
12 September 1863, page 1g (supp.),
Register,
28 November 1862, page 2d,
8 January 1863, page 3b,
2 November 1863, page 2f,
4, 5, 6 and 10 February 1864, pages 2e, 3d, 3b and 3d,
21 and 28 May 1864, pages 7f and 6f,
16 and 30 July 1864, pages 6c and 5a,
6 August 1864, page 1f (supp.),
8 and 29 October 1864, pages 3f (supp.) and 6b.

Also see Express,
6 and 29 July 1864, pages 2d and 2c,
30 September 1864, page 2d,
1 October 1864, page 3d,
Observer,
16 July 1864, page 6c,
8 October 1864, pages 3f-4c (supp.),
8 July 1865, page 6c,
Express,
23 September 1865, page 2c.

"Public Education Examinations" is in the Observer,
19 March 1859, page 7a.

"The Examination Test" is in the Register,
7 and 26 July 1858, pages 2e and 2d,
"Examinations - Their Good and Evil" on
25 April 1885, page 4f.
Further comment on the subject is in the Advertiser,
30 December 1880, page 6g,
3 and 10 January 1881, pages 6e and 7c.

Examinations at "Northern schools" are reported in the Observer,
2 July 1859, page 7d.

"Public Education Examinations" is in the Register,
12 March 1859, page 3c,
14 July 1859, page 2f,
3, 19, 21 and 29 September 1859, pages 2d, 3b, 2g and 2f.

Also see Register,
21 and 24 May 1864, pages 2e and 2h,
9 and 30 July 1864, pages 2e and 2f,
6 September 1864, page 2h,
1, 3 and 7 October 1864, pages 3d, 2f and 2b,
30 June 1865, page 2d,
4 July 1865, page 2f.

"School Examinations" is in the Register on 3 January 1862, page 2f.

"The Examiners and the Examined" is in the Register,
3, 4, 5 and 10 February 1864, pages 3d, 2e, 3d and 3d.

"Educational Tests" is in the Register,
2 August 1865, page 2b,
"Competitive Examinations" in the Chronicle,
30 September 1865, pages 2c-3b (supp.),
"School Examinations" in the Advertiser,
2 January 1868, page 2c,
"Public Examinations" in the Observer,
10 August 1872, page 13g; also see
The Lantern,
19 December 1874, page 4c.

"Competitive Examinations - Injurious to Mind and Body" is in the Register,
9 and 13 April 1885, pages 6b and 3h.

"Public Examinations" is in the Register,
21, 25 and 28 September 1886, pages 7b, 7e and 4g,
"Matriculation Examinations" on
8 and 14 December 1886, pages 5a and 4h.

"Public Examinations in Art" is in the Register,
7 November 1887, page 5a.

Examinations are discussed in the Register,
3 September 1888, page 5c,
24 July 1889, page 4g.
"State School Examinations" is in the Register,
2 March 1892, pages 4e-6f.

"Examinations and Education" is in the Advertiser,
27 November 1897, page 6f.

"Education Department Arithmetic - Why Our Children Fail" is in the Weekly Herald,
27 January 1900, page 8.

"New School Examination System" is in the Register on
16 May 1901, page 4c,
"The Examination Fiend" on
20 November 1902, page 4f,
"Education Ordeal - At The Exams" on
15 December 1902, page 6b,
"Examination System in Schools" in the Express,
5 July 1911, page 3g.

"Inspectors' Examinations an Evil" is in the Register,
5 July 1911, page 6i.

"Memory of Examinations" is in the Register,
8 December 1902, page 4c.

"How [Examination] Questions Are Framed" is in the Register,
23 November 1906, page 5d.

"A Girl on Examinations" is in the Register,
20 December 1906, page 8e.

"Examiners' Reports [Primary Schools]" is in the Register,
9 October 1907, page 7d.

"Examination Methods - Criticism by a Teacher" is in the Register,
14 February 1908, page 3d.

"Inspectors' Examinations an Evil" is in the Register,
5 July 1911, page 6i.

"School Examinations" is in the Observer,
28 June 1919, page 13a,
"Examinations" in the Register,
10 November 1919, page 6b.

"The Qualifying Examination" is in the Advertiser,
16 April 1926, page 20c,
13 November 1926, page 14e,
"QC Examination - Head Teachers Criticise" in the Register,
29 November 1928, page 10a,
3 December 1928, page 8h,
"QC - Problem for Students" in The News,
18 November 1929, page 8d.

"Examinations" is in the Register on
10 November 1919, page 6b,
18 December 1926, page 8f,
"The Examination Question" on
26 November 1928, page 8c.

"Examination Humour" is in the Observer,
17 March 1928, page 53c.

"The Examination System" is in the Register,
26 November 1928, page 8c.

"QC Examination - Head Teacher's Criticism" is in the Observer,
1 December 1928, page 42a,
"Should School Examinations be Abolished?" on
12 January 1929, page 45b.

Photographs of exam time in Adelaide are in the Observer,
8 December 1928, page 35.

"School Examinations" is in the Advertiser,
17 and 22 December 1931, pages 14f and 22e,
"Speech Days and Examinations" on
17 December 1928, page 12e,
"How to Pass Examinations" on
5 October 1932, page 14h.

"Do Examinees Really Suffer" is in the Advertiser,
10 December 1932, page 9g.

"Public Exam Changes" is in The News,
23 November 1933, page 13d,
"Examiners Caustic - 1933 Papers Analysed" on
21 April 1934, page 7g.

"Examinations" is in the Advertiser,
18 December 1934, page 18f,
"Problems of the Intermediate" on
21 June 1935, page 24h.

"Are Exams a Real Test of Ability" is in The News,
16 November 1935, page 4d.

"Some Schoolboy Mistakes" in examinations are in the Advertiser,
3 February 1902, page 6d,
"Examination Howlers" on
7 May 1904, page 6g,
Observer,
7 July 1906, page 4e.

"Students and Their Failings - Examiners' Reports" is in the Advertiser,
9 October 1907, page 9e,
"Examination Howlers" in the Observer,
15 February 1908, page 53d.

"Howlers! - The Examination Harvest" is in the Register on
6 February 1909, page 9d,
"Juvenile Howlers" in the Advertiser,
15 July 1910, page 6h,
29 January 1912, page 8f,
Observer,
28 September 1912, page 37e,
"Examination Howlers" in the Register on
22 March 1913, page 14e,
15 February 1915, page 6e,
"Students and Examiners" in the Advertiser,
12 February 1916, page 8f.

"Howlers - The 1916 Crop" is in the Register on
20 and 26 February 1917, pages 4h and 9c; also see
6 and 8 March 1917, pages 6g and 6b,
The Mail,
10 March 1917, page 2c,
Register,
18 January 1918, page 4e,
Observer,
26 January 1918, page 29c,
17 October 1925, page 18d,
Advertiser,
4 March 1919, page 7b,
Register,
28 February 1920, page 9b,
8 March 1923, page 13e,
20 February 1925, page 11d,
The News,
21 January 1928, page 4g,
29 July 1931, page 6d.

"Qualifying Certificate Tests" is in the Register,
16 December 1921, page 7h.

"The Teacher and the Howler" is in the Observer,
27 April 1929, page 34d; also see
Advertiser,
14 April 1934, page 18b.

"Teaching of English - Examiners Criticised" is in The Mail,
2 and 30 June 1928, pages 3d and 3a,
28 July 1928, page 12d.

"Howlers from Exam Papers" is in The News,
25 October 1934, page 10e.

"Examination Time" is in the Advertiser,
26 November 1937, page 30d.

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