Canterbury Provincial Gazette – 1874 – No. 20

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WRITING-COPY SETTING.

FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD CLASS.

  1. Write in large hand, filling up three spaces on ruled paper—Nelson.

  2. Write, in text hand, filling up two spaces—Wellington.

  3. In smaller text, filling up one space—Christchurch.

  4. In round hand, filling up half a space—Christchurch, New Zealand.

  5. In small hand—West Christchurch Schoolroom (late High School), Lincoln Road, Canterbury, New Zealand, January 28, 1874.

  6. Write the last specimen again, the masters in current, or commercial hand; the mistresses in angular hand.

  7. Write one of the above words in German Text, and any other ornamental hand.

VOCAL MUSIC.

FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD CLASSES.

  1. What is a scale?

  2. What are the proportions of length of string, or of vibrations, of the notes of a diatonic scale extending through an octave?

  3. Why are sharps and flats required? Answer this in the form in which you would explain it to a class.

  4. What are the signatures of B, B flat, E, E flat, C sharp, A, A flat?

  5. Transpose into the key of G two tunes selected by the examiner.

  6. Say in what time each of four tunes pointed out by the examiner is written.

  7. Sing the air of a tune chosen by the examiner.

ALGEBRA.

FIRST AND SECOND CLASSES.

  1. Multiply (1) $x^2-x+1$ by $x^2+x-1$.
    (2) $a^2-x^2$ by $a^4+a^2x^2+x^4$.

  2. Divide (1) $x^3+x^2-x-1$ by $x+1$.
    (2) $(a+b+c)x^2+(ab+ac+bc)x+abc$ by $x+b$.

  3. Resolve into factors $x^2-20x+100$.

  4. If $a=6$, $b=5$, $x=4$, $y=3$, find the value of—
    (1) $3(a+b)-2(x-y)$.
    (2) $ay(b+x)^2$.
    (3) $\sqrt{2axy}$.
    (4) $(\sqrt{a+b})^2$.



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