Senior Cambridge

Senior Cambridge

The Senior Cambridge examinations were General Certificate of Education examinations held in Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, India, and Jamaica. They were preceded by the Junior Cambridge and Preliminary Cambridge examinations.

History

India

The first school in Delhi to offer the Senior Cambridge examination was the Cambridge School at Daryaganj. In the 1960s, the Senior Cambridge examinations were largely superseded by the Indian Council of Secondary Education (ICSE) examinations.

Malaysia

During the Japanese occupation of Malaysia in World War II, pupils who sat their Senior Cambridge examinations at some schools in 1941 had to wait until 1946 to learn their results.

Pakistan

At its independence from British India in 1947, Pakistan inherited a number of schools that offered Senior Cambridge examinations. Since then, the number of schools with a Senior Cambridge curriculum expanded greatly, and Cambridge schools are prominent among the premier educational institutions of Pakistan.

ubjects

Textbooks

At the Victoria Institution in 1933, the following list of school textbooks was issued to pupils preparing to study for the Senior Cambridge examinations:
* "New School Arithmetic"
* "Algebra", Baker and Bourne
* "Geometry Parts I - VI"
* "Logarithm Tables"
* "English Exercises", Henry Watson Fowler
* "Expansion of the British Empire"
* "Historical Atlas"
* "Essentials of World Geography"
* "Geography", Brooke
* "General Course in Hygiene"
* "Contouring and Map-Reading", Wallis
* "St Matthew"
* "King's I"
* "She Stoops to Conquer", Goldsmith
* "Essay on Sir William Temple", Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
* "Q" Poison Island"

References

* cite web|accessmonthday=June 19 |accessyear=2005
url=http://www.sifst.org.sg/Pro_Constitution.html
title=Constitution
work=Singapore Institute of Food Science and Technology which requires that affiliate members must have passed the Senior Cambridge examination
* cite web|accessmonthday=June 19 |accessyear=2005
url=http://vs.moe.edu.sg/pg.cgi?id=sch_history
title=Victoria School history
work=
* cite web|accessmonthday=June 19 |accessyear=2005
url=http://planetvidyaschools.com/school/cambridgeprsch/home/default.html
title=About the school
work=Cambridge School at Delhi
* cite web|accessmonthday=June 19 |accessyear=2005
url=http://www.singaporeexpats.com/guides-for-expats/international-schools.htm
title=Education, International Schools in Singapore
work=
* cite web|accessmonthday=June 19 |accessyear=2005
url=http://www.actco.org/Montego%20Bay%20High%20School/montego_bay_high_school.htm
title=Brief History
work=Montego Bay High School
* cite web|accessmonthday=June 19 |accessyear=2005
url=http://viweb.freehosting.net/BLists.htm
title=Two Book Lists, Two Different Worlds
work=Victoria Institution
* cite web|accessmonthday=June 19 |accessyear=2005
url=http://viweb.freehosting.net/viint_NSBuck.htm
title=An Interview with Mr Ng Seo Buck
work=The Seladang, 1963

ee also

* Cambridge International Examinations


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