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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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mental science, the programme being the same as that prescribed for elementary science for Class E, but the treatment different. The questions set will demand a knowledge of simple experiments adapted to the illustration of the several parts of the programme. A list of experiments will be supplied to candidates who apply for it to the Inspector-General of Schools.

The examination for Class D shall include, lastly, two subjects chosen by the candidate from the following list: Latin, Greek, French, German or Italian, algebra, Euclid, elementary mechanics, elementary physics, elementary chemistry, elementary biology. The scope of the examination in these subjects will be as follows. In languages: Translation at sight from and into the language chosen by the candidate, and questions in the grammar of the language. Algebra: To simple equations, inclusive, with easy problems. Euclid: Books I. and II. Elementary mechanics: The elements of statics, dynamics, and hydrostatics. Elementary physics: Heat, sound, light, and electricity. Elementary chemistry: The non-metallic elements and the atomic theory. Elementary biology: Elements of animal physiology; or, elements of the morphology and physiology of flowering plants, including the main characteristics of the chief native and introduced natural orders: the paper will contain questions on both branches (zoology and botany), but a candidate will not be required to answer questions in both. Any candidate for Class D who has passed the matriculation examination or the Junior Scholarship Examination of the New Zealand University, being at the time of passing of the age required by Regulation 10 or otherwise qualified as that regulation requires, may be excused from examination for Class D in those subjects in which, at the Matriculation or Junior Scholarship Examination, he obtained such marks as in the judgment of the Minister of Education afford evidence of sufficient knowledge of the subjects.

14. A candidate for Class C shall be required to pass the first section of the examination for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in the University of New Zealand; and also (unless he has already passed for Class D) to pass the whole of the examination for Class D, with the exception of the two optional subjects. (A candidate may pass the required University examination without being an undergraduate of the University.)

15. Subject to the operation of Regulations 5, 6, 7, and 8, Bachelors of Arts of the University of New Zealand may be admitted to Class B without examination.

16. Subject to the operation of Regulations 5, 6, 7, and 8, graduates of the University of New Zealand, in first- or second-class honours, may be admitted to Class A without examination.

17. An examination for the two Classes D and E, and, if necessary, for higher classes also, shall be held every year in the month of January, and shall begin not earlier than the seventh day and end not later than the seventeenth day of the month; and no candidate shall be admitted to the examination who does not give notice by the thirty-first day of October next before the examination, in a form to be provided for that purpose by the Minister of Education, and send with such notice a bank receipt for the sum of one pound sterling paid to the credit of the Public Account at some branch of the bank at which the Public Account is kept: Provided that a candidate in whose favour partial success has been recorded under Regulation 9 or Regulation 18 shall not be required to pay a fee for examination in a subject or subjects for the mere completion of the work of a former examination; and that the holder of a provisional certificate shall not be required to pay a fee for examination in the subject or subjects on account of which the certificate was made provisional.

18. A candidate whose work at any examination is good on the whole, but in one or two subjects is below the required standard, may be registered as having achieved partial success at the examination; and, on giving notice as required by Regulation 17, may, at the next examination, sit without payment of fee, to be examined only in such one or two subjects; and such candidate, if successful in such subject or subjects, shall be deemed to have passed the examination.

19. The class for which a certificate is granted being determined by examination, the division within the class shall depend—first, on the number of years during which the teacher has been actually engaged in school-teaching, one mark being assigned for two years’ service, two marks for five years, three marks for eight years, four marks for eleven years, and five marks for fourteen years and upwards; and, second, on the judgment of an Inspector, such judgment being expressed by marks numbering 2, 4, 6, 8, or 10, according to the Inspector’s estimate of less or greater efficiency; and the marks of both series being added, 14 marks shall qualify for the first division, 11 marks for the second, 8 marks for the third, 5 marks for the fourth, and 3 marks for the fifth. In assigning marks for