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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 31

Syllabus Showing the Standard Required for Admission to the Upper School

Syllabus Showing the Standard Required for Admission to the Upper School.

1.Reading.—To read well any book of ordinary difficulty, with comprehension of the sense, and ability to explain fairly the meaning of words and phrases.
2.Writing from Dictation.—Fair writing and good spelling.
3.English Grammar, including analysis of easy sentences.
4.Arithmetic.—Simple and Compound Rules, Practice, Simple Proportion, Vulgar Fractions, Finite Decimal Fractions, and Exercises in Square and Cubic Measures.
5.Geography.—Chief physical features, political divisions, and principal towns of Europe and Australasia; also ability to draw fair outline maps.
6.Latin.—Grammar and Accidence, with ability to translate into English easy Latin sentences not previously prepared. [N.13.—This subject is compulsory only on those boys who mean to take Latin in the Upper School.
7.Either (A)Mathematics, including Euclid, Book I. Props1-32; and Algebra, four elementary rules; or (a) French Grammar and translation into English or of easy French sentences not previously prepared. [NB.—One of these subjects is compulsory on all who have not passed in Latin—See Section 6.