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On Technical Education . 
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Before passing to the question of payment, we will give 
the number who come up for examination in Chemistry ; as 
in the individual subjects the number must, I think, repre- 
sent those who came up, passed, or failed, as well as the 
number of papers worked. The number who came up in 
Inorganic Chemistry (Theoretical) amounted to 5299 for the 
Elementary Stage and 938 for the Advanced Stage ; or for 
every 100 who presented themselves for examination in the 
Elementary Stage, 17*7 presented themselves in the Advanced 
Stage. No entry appears in the Report for the Honours 
Stage ; indeed the Honours Examination for all the twenty- 
four subjects examined upon appears, as far as the Science 
Schools are concerned, to be more for ornament than for 
use. The following are the numbers who passed and failed 
in the different branches of Chemistry (Theoretical and 
Practical) : — 
Elementary Stage , Inorganic Chemistry ( Theoretical ). 
Percentage 
Numbers. 
Number of First-class Successes... 1226 23*13 
,, of Second-class Successes 2604 49*14 
,, of Failures 1469 27*72 
Advanced Stage . 
Number of First-class Successes... 115 12*26 
,, of Seoond-class Successes 523 5575 
,, of Failures 300 31*98 
Inorganic Chemistry ( Practical ), Elementary Stage . 
Percentage 
Numbers. 
Number of First-class Successes... 682 39*95 
,, of Second-class Successes 774 45*34 
,, of Failures 251 14*70 
Advanced Stage. 
Number of First-class Successes... 208 29*17 
,, of Second-class Successes 263 36*88 
„ of Failures 242 33*94 
