Senior Cambridge
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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.
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[edit] History
[edit] 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 In the 1960s, the Senior Cambridge examinations were largely superseded by the Indian Council of Secondary Education (ICSE) examinations.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Subjects
[edit] 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
[edit] References
- Constitution. Singapore Institute of Food Science and Technology. Retrieved on June 19, 2005. which requires that affiliate members must have passed the Senior Cambridge examination
- Victoria School history. Retrieved on June 19, 2005.
- About the school. Cambridge School at Delhi. Retrieved on June 19, 2005.
- Education, International Schools in Singapore. Retrieved on June 19, 2005.
- Brief History. Montego Bay High School. Retrieved on June 19, 2005.
- Two Book Lists, Two Different Worlds. Victoria Institution. Retrieved on June 19, 2005.
- An Interview with Mr Ng Seo Buck. The Seladang, 1963. Retrieved on June 19, 2005.
