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THE EXTERNAL EXAMINATION is regarded by the majority of students — and many teachers too — as an extremely unfair method of assessing a student's ability to proceed to the next stage of a course. Let it first be said that examinations as they are at present, whether set internally or externally, are not the best possible method for assessing a student's ability; it is possible that they are the best method we have available, since as yet there is no acceptable alternative. For a student's career to depend on a three‐hour examination shows that we have not progressed far in the educational field. There is enormous scope for improvement in this direction; but this is another matter.