The examiners, and Mann as well, were disappointed in the generally low levels of performance. (See Caldwell & Courtis, 1925, for copies of the tests, the reports, and Mann’s comments.)
In arithmetic, for example, the average across students and questions was just under 35%, which prompted Mann (1845b) to complain: “Such a result repels comment. No friendly attempt at palliation can make it any better. No severity of just censure can make it any worse” (p.363). Several questions were missed by everyone, and others were answered correctly by only a handful of students. One of the
More difficult questions was the following.