

APPENDIX C. 



V i.\ \l i UVCTIOS AND 



1890. 



In reporting on the examination in Machine 

 Drawing, we arc sorry to have to state that in the Elementary 

 Stage a xnall*r proportion of candidate* than usual succeeded. 



Teachorn who hare studied the examination paper* of successive 

 year* will have observed thai oar aim ha* bean to require year by 

 year more knowledge of construction and of ability to nndervtand 

 the drawing*. We have repeatedly noticed with dissatisfaction 

 that candidate*, often in large claate*. are aent in for examination 

 who have been shown merely the method of *etting off to scale 

 the variouft dimensions given on a figured drawing, and who have 

 been taught little or not attraction, and fre 



y appear to have no idea tlmi the .litfer. i.t view* *hown are 

 related to one another and represent a soUd piece of marl 

 A* an example of the recult of unsatisfactory teaching may I* 

 ncd a da** of 94 candidate*, of whom only 8 obta 

 ist, and 49 failed entirely ; for companion with this i 

 quoted a claa* of 108 candidate*, of whom 4o . .htained a first cla**, 

 10 (ailed. 



> draw machine* to scale i* useful only to those who also 



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we have made it eesential that the candidate must be able to do 

 nmething more than merely copy to scale. 



Besides being taught to take from one view dimension* which 

 are necessary for the tlrn Mother, the student should be 



instructed to show the relation of one view to the other by placing 



