SENIOR ENGLISH TESTS BY E. E. REYNOLDS
THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL ColchesterÂ
GEORGE HARRAP & COMPANY LTD.
BOMBAY LONDON SYDNEY
PREFACE
THE purpose of these tests is to supply ade-
quate practice in the type of general paper
which is now set in the First School and the
fatriculation Examinations of the varions univer-
Experience shows that it is important that
candidates should have had practice in answering a
complete paper as well as in answering the classified
sities.
questions in their text-books.
In their report on English the investigators ap-
pointed by the Board of Education state:
The aims of the examination are to test the candi-
date's power of choosing words with due regard to
their meaning, associations, and sound, of constructing
sentences and paragraphs, of expressing his thoughts
clearly and coherently, of understanding and ropro-
ducing the substance of what he hears or reads.
It is hoped that these senior tests meet the above
requirements, and will also provide a useful con-
tinuation of the work covered in Junior English
Tests and Intermediate English Tests.
E. E. R.