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BIRMINGHAM  \nJOINT MATRICULATION BOARD  \nA General Paper  \nin the General Certificate of EducationExamination  \nR.A.C.OLIVER  \nProfessor of Education in the VictoriaUniversity of Manchester  \nJuly 1954  \n# Introduction\n\n1.The Joint Matriculation Board introduced a General Paper into itsexaminations for the General Certificate of Education(G.C.E.)in 1951.  \nThe General Paper is approved by the Secondary School ExaminationsCouncil as a subject of the G.C.E.at the Ordinary level.  \nA pass in the General Paper counts as a pass in a subject at the Ordinarylevel for the purposes of University entrance requirements.It is accepted asa subject\"not related\"to any subject at the Advanced level taken at the samesitting.  \n# 2.The syllabus of the Joint Matriculation Board General Paper is as follows;\n\nGENERAL PAPER(one paper of three hours).  \nAlthough the paper ranks at the Ordinary level,it will be more suitablefor candidates near the end of their Sixth-form or similar higher course.  \nQuestions will be grouped round the following general headings,candidates being required to answer from each of the groups:  \n1.Current affairs,politics,economics,history and geography.  \n2.General science:science and its social implications,scientific method.  \n3.Literature including literary criticism;the fine arts(music,art,films etc.).  \nQuestions on religion and philosophy may be set in any section.  \n3.The purpose of this paper is to report the results of an investigation ofthe General Paper set in 1953.The results are based mainly on two sets ofdata,viz.(1)the grades awarded in the General Paper by the Joint MatriculationBoard,and(2)the replies to a questionnaire sent to all headmasters and head-mistresses of schools,and principals of further education establishments,whoentered candidates in 1953.In addition,the Joint Matriculation Board suppliedinformation about the candidates and schools.The writer is indebted to theBoard and to all who replied to the questionnaire for their co-operation,andto his research assistant,Mr.H.J.Butcher,for assistance in the analysis of thedata.  \n# I.Analysis of Grades\n\n4.The number of schools(including establishments of further education)entering candidates for the General Paper in each of the three years in whichthe examination has been held is given in Table 1,together with the number ofcandidates and the percentage of candidates who passed.A small proportionof the candidates(2·8 per cent.in 1953)were not entered by schools but were“external candidates”.  \nTABLE 1Schools,candidates and passes in the General Paper 1951-53  \n\n| Number of schools  \u003Cbr>Number of candidates entered  \u003Cbr>Percentage of entry passing   | 1951   | 1952   | 1953   |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 164  \u003Cbr>1,756  \u003Cbr>64·1   | 167  \u003Cbr>1,924  \u003Cbr>55·3   | 176  \u003Cbr>2,462  \u003Cbr>47·2   |\n\nFor purposes of comparison it may be added that the number of candidatesfor the G.C.E.examinations of the Joint Matriculation Board in all subjects atthe Ordinary level in 1953 was 58,889.  \n5.In the 1953 examination,twenty-four questions were set in the GeneralPaper,eight on each section of the syllabus.Candidates were required toanswer five questions,including at least one from each section.  \nThe Joint Matriculation Board_awards not“marks”but“grades”on ascale from 0 to 100 at intervals of 5.The minimum grade for a pass is 40.  \n6.The mean grades of various groups of candidates classified by sex andtype of school are given in Table 2.  \nTo make the table more useful to readers interested in statistics,the lastcolumn gives the standard deviation(S.D.)of the grades of each group ofcandidates.Other readers may ignore this column,or interpret it as anindication of the spread of the grades:approximately two-thirds of thecandidates have grades within one standard deviation above and below the mean.  \nTABLE 2Mean grades of candidates in the General Paper,1953:  \nSex andtype of school  \n\n| Group of candidates   | N","cbCaiarqMma5Y7d4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiarqMma5Y7d4","pdf",4194748,15,"English","# Introduction\n# Syllabus of the General Paper\n# Purpose and investigation (1953)\n# Analysis of Grades\n## Schools, candidates and passes (1951-53)\n## Examination structure and grading system\n## Mean grades by sex and type of school","[{\"question\":\"When was the Joint Matriculation Board’s General Paper introduced and approved?\",\"answer\":\"The Joint Matriculation Board introduced the General Paper into its G.C.E. examinations in 1951. 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