General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. THE LONDON UNIVERSITY MATRICULATION EXAMINATION. Precis-writing was introduced into the London Matriculation Examination for the first time in September, 1902; and since that date it has formed an important part of the English paper. The character of the examination can scarcely as yet perhaps be regarded as settled. In the earlier papers the Examiners asked the candidates to make a precis of official correspondence very similar in kind to the documents met with in Civil Service examinations. More recently the Examiners have given the outlines of a precis on some historical or geographical subject and
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