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Statistics - Leaving 1955-1966

Total Candidature by Subject

Subject	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966
Accountancy	151	250	251	225	261	290	357	413	508	533	644	111
Agriculture	196	244	283	318	379	373	489	563	712	818	1,015	150
Applied Mathematics	150	155	136	151	46	35	19	39	34	39	33	22
Art	610	615	595	598	617	746	857	935	1,280	1,608	1,963	247
Biology	1,558	1,855	2,176	2,742	3,142	3,825	4,314	5,155	6,680	7,395	8,978	1,429
Botany	167	229	224	188	188	162	148	58	32	3	3
Chemistry	3,123	3,461	4,065	4,389	4,731	5,365	5,148	6,154	6,775	7,109	7,787	1,749
Comb.Phys & Chem	831	986	1,117	1,460	1,638	2,215	2,861	3,103	4,147	4,857	5,796	1,090
Chinese	119	156	219	260	305	395	413	438	445	425	439	238
Des Geom & Drawing	471	637	786	945	1,010	1,315	1,531	1,592	1,879	1,445	2,185	395
Dutch		21	28	42	52	48	62	48	54	68	80	60
Economics	2,410	2,986	3,289	3,733	4,126	4,826	5,428	6,272	8,086	9,324	11,433	3,108
English	8,032	9,194	10,229	11,553	12,843	14,876	17,064	18,552	22,427	24,495	28,742	6,895
Farm Mechanics	48	49	52	54	68	59	57	78	88	92	102	4
French	3,277	3,542	3,876	4,417	4,910	5,583	6,115	7,029	9,039	9,461	10,517	1,757
Geography	3,851	4,336	4,898	5,409	5,836	6,877	7,719	8,600	10,628	11,714	14,208	3,504
Geology	221	262	268	268	236	280	270	327	335	360	395	120
German	237	290	326	375	488	455	499	503	566	659	722	191
Greek	27	25	33	21	29	17	22	21	33	27	47	13
Hebrew	2	2	2	4	8	8	6	13	7	10	17	10
Ancient History	1,860	2,310	2,390	2,612	2,837	3,027	3,676	3,938	4,584	4,966	5,725	1,526
Modern History	4,914	5,652	6,106	6,960	8,096	9,060	9,913	11,462	13,782	15,110	17,772	4,556
Home Economics	247	280	350	388	492	538	574	592	839	889	1,091	65
Italian	13	21	30	23	31	37	42	49	71	93	131	65
Japanese	2	4	4	2	5	3	1	11	5	5	9	3
Latin	997	1,073	1,104	1,138	1,188	1,340	1,254	1,363	1,669	1,599	1,759	223
Mathematics I	2,372	2,680	3,013	3,562	4,052	4,947	5,739	6,180	7,294	8,046	8,975	2,261
Mathematics II	2,366	2,665	3,001	3,550	4,018	4,891	5,711	6,153	7,274	8,007	8,975	2,241
Mathematics III								2,679	3,368	3,528	4,230	1,124
General Mathematics	3,973	4,469	5,053	5,634	6,549	7,640	8,308	7,077	8,690	9,989	12,229	3,033
Metalwork	53	61	92	122	144	182	182	208	301	362	562	103
Music (New Syllabus)				28	65	62	51	92	103	132	136	13
Music Theory (AMEB)	5	2	5	5	9	4	4		4	5	9	5
Music Theory & Prac (AMEB)	168	159	144	176	174	175	197		295	337	390	57
Music Theory (Board)	5	24	32	14	4	12	2	5
Music Theory & Prac (Board)	81	69	94	121	85	99	82	37	54	40	42	8
Needlecraft & Garm.Const.	479	543	626	734	826	838	836	873	1,083	1,112	1,315
Needlework												79
Physics	2,691	3,056	3,494	3,880	4,021	4,848	5,375	6,146	6,980	7,317	7,992	2,108
Physiology & Hygiene	305	299	298	236	91	21	12	20	12	30	21	16
Russian	22	10	14	22	26	26	35	34	45	71	70	33
Sheep Husbandry	1	38	127	194	278	264	289	289	337	348	362	19
Social Studies	2	3
Woodwork	102	103	183	215	236	231	283	337	446	545	781	115
Woolclassing	206	169	142	43	38	10
Zoology	152	163	152	122	79	63	64	70
Oral Tests
French	2,047	2,274
French Honours	281	882
German	210	272
German Honours	68	104
Italian	9	13
Russian	6	7
Dutch		9
Candidates
Girls	3,068	3,444	3,769	4,318	4,668	5,242	6,334	6,701	8,523	9,742	10,941	1,979
Boys	4,835	5,600	6,304	7,036	7,833	8,957	10,893	11,214	13,309	14,986	18,356	5,450
Total	7,903	9,044	10,073	11,354	12,501	14,199	17,227	17,915	21,832	24,728	29,297	7,429