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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 41
Examination for Certificates of Proficiency in Flemfntary Subjects of Instruction
Examination for Certificates of Proficiency in Flemfntary Subjects of Instruction.
1. The University Council is prepared to undertake periodical examinations of boys and girls who are candidates for certificates of proficiency in elementary subjects of instruction, and to issue certificates to such as reach a standard prescribed by the University.
2. The examinations will take place in the chief towns of the colony, and at other convenient centres where satisfactory arrangements can be made.
3. Teachers and others interested in education must, at each centre, constitute a local committee of supervision, to provide the necessary accommodation, and make all other local arrangements for the examination.
4. The University Council will appoint commissioners to be charged with the personal superintendence of all candidates throughout the examination, and to be responsible for the integrity of the work done during the examination.
5. The answers of the candidates will be scaled up by the commissioners, who will forward them at once to the Registrar of the University.
6. The local committee must defray all the expenses incurred at the place of the examination.
7. The University will defray all expenses incurred in printing the examination papers, examining the answers of the candidates, and issuing certificates. For this purpose a fee of 7s. 6d shall be paid to the University by each candidate. The local committee must Collect the fees, and transmit the amount to the Registrar.
8. The University Council will appoint examiners to value the answers of the candidates, and to arrange the names of successful ones in two classes.
9. The Registrar will issue a certificate to all candidates who have passed the prescribed examination.
10. Candidates, whether boys or girls, shall be under sixteen years of age on the 1st of January preceding the examination.
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| (a) | The English Language:—Including writing Passages from Dictation, Parsing of Words, Etymology, Analysis of Sentences, and English Composition. |
| (b) | Arithmetic:—Including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Practice, Proportion and Simple Interest. |
| (c) | Handwriting. |
| (d) | Outlines of the History of England, and of South Africa. |
| (e) | Outlines of Geography, Descriptive and Physical. |
12. The commissioners will be charged with the duty of dictating the prescribed passages.
13. Certificates of age must be furnished to the local committee, and the commissioners will have to certify to the University Council that the certificate in each ease is satisfactory.
14. The examinations shall take place simultaneously throughout the colony about the early part of April in each year.
15. Candidates who have obtained the certificate in the 2nd class, and are not beyond the prescribed age, may compete at a subsequent examination for a certificate in the 1st class; but their names will not appear in the lists, unless they have reached the standard of merit entitling them to the first-class certificate.
16. The fee of 7s. 6d. must be paid by all candidates presenting them selves for re-examination.