Paxton High School - Reflector Yearbook (Paxton, IL)

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The Paxton High School Reflector Volume IX Paxton, Illinois, January, 19J3 Number 3 The Semester Examinations The Most Important Event for January—Names of Students Excused—Highest Examination Grades— Other Items of Interest Concerning the Examinations k- - ---------= —=— Spelling Examination. The semester examination in spell- ing was held Thursday morning, Jan. 13th. Under the rules, those stduents whose average daily grade is 95 per cent or higher, are not required to take the examination. As 25 per cent is the deduction made for each word misspelled in any recitation an aver- age of 95 per cent is considered high- ly satisfactory. There were 51 students who were excused under th’s rule. These were divided among the four classes as fol- lows: Seniors excused, 17; not excused, 10. Juniors excused. 15; not excused, 19. Sophomores excused, 13; -not ex. 2G. Freshmen excused. 5; not excused 47. Two lists of 25 words each were prepared, one l y Mr Bainum and the other by Mr. Lathrop. Mr. Lathrop’s list was made of selections from the Hgh School Word Book, and were representative of the words studied and sp' lied during the semester. Mr. Bainum’s li:t was designed to include only words which the ordinary stu- dent, or person in business or social life, might reasonably be expected to use in written correspondence. Some very striking facts have been tabulat- ed from the examination manuscripts of the 104 persons who wrote the ex- amination on the 50 words. The aver- age grade made was 85% per cent. The highest, 98 per cent. In other words, the average student misspelled about one word in seven. The most successful, spelled 49 out of 50 words correctly. There was only one word in the lists that was spelled correctly by ev- ery student. It was the w’ord arith- metic. The words grammar and weekly were each missed once. Niece was missed the ir.on frequently, while principal (chief), rarefy, diphtheria, sieve, and mucilage were close sec- onds. A third gro: p of words that offered difficulty to some were the foilowng: receive, scissors, twelfth, tamable, raisin, laboratory, moccasin, sopho- more, February, tariff, belief phyriolo gy and Illinois.