To answer this question satisfactorily, I believe a little bit of background is necessary. The reference to Ginger Meggers should probably be Ginger Meggs, a comic strip character about a young red-haired boy. The comic was first published in 1921 and still appears today in the Sunday newspaper. The comic strip is about the adventures, mischief and antics that Ginger and his friends get up to. As he is still in his early days of school (my guess is that he is probably around 10 years old) his level and command of English would not be very advanced. (Information re Ginger Meggs - http://www.hinet.net.au/~meggs/history.html) I assume that the sentence for which you are seeking an explanation may be from some report on the levels of English being taught at schools. Basically, the writer of the sentence is saying that the level of the ordinary English paper has been set so low that the average mark is at the same level as you would expect from Ginger Meggs, and therefore, it would not be of much value. When I attended school, students in their final years of study could elect to take their subject at a higher level and this was called Honours. Thus there would have been an ordinary English paper and an English Honours paper at a higher level of difficulty. Similarly, there would have been Honours papers in most other subjects.