ABSTRACT
The grammar school sixth was more likely, especially in single-sex schools, to be controlled in terms of entry and curriculum and teaching by public examinations, and this bias towards the routine preparation of examinations was accentuated by the commitment generated among 'scholarship' boys and girls. What can be done about the curriculum is limited by the need to ensure that the organization and curriculum of the school should continue to cater for 'all those who are capable of making proper use of a university education'. The comment on this point is accompanied by an extravagant encomium of the sixth. The extravagant encomium of the sixth is described as: 'the most characteristic and most valuable feature in a Grammar School in the training of character and a sense of responsibility, and on its existence depends all that is best in the grammar school tradition'.
