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. |