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XI. EXAMINATIONS.

47. In order to insure due diligence during the whole period of residence, there will be examinations at the end of each term, conducted by independent examiners. Some questions will be set on the work done in previous terms. A cadet who fails to pass at any examination will be warned that if he fails at the next examination he will be removed from the College. No cadet will be permitted to reside for more than three terms at the College, except in case of protracted illness. In the exceptional case of a cadet being prevented by sudden illness or other unavoidable cause from undergoing the final examination, such cadet may, on the recommendation of the Governor, be specially examined at the commencement of the ensuing term.

48. Cadets of the senior division who have completed their course satisfactorily, and are reported as duly qualified in all respects, will be eligible for commissions as vacancies occur, and will be gazetted to regiments as second lieutenants, as far as possible in their order of merit.

49. The qualifying minimum at the several examinations is one-half of the aggregate marks and one-third of the Examiner’s marks on each subject.

50. Cadets who obtain 0·75 of the marks at the final examination will be recorded as having passed with honours.

51. A cadet guilty of copying, assisting another, or using unfair means at any examination will forfeit his examination, and be rusticated for one term, or may, according to circumstances, be more severely dealt with.

52. A cadet will be removed from the Royal Military College on the following grounds:—
    (1.) If he fails to pass at two consecutive examinations.
    (2.) If he fails to acquire a sufficient proficiency in military exercises—viz., drill, gymnastics, and riding.
    (3.) Unsatisfactory progress in his studies.

No exception to the above rule will be allowed on account of absence from any cause excepting illness; cases of protracted absence on account of illness will be specially referred for decision to the Secretary of State for War through the Commander-in-Chief.

53. A cadet who fails to pass the examination at the end of his third term of residence will not be permitted to return to the Royal Military College, but will be allowed to be examined at the next ensuing examination if specially recommended by the Governor. A failure at this examination will disqualify a cadet for a commission in the army, and his name will be at once removed from the books.

54. At the end of each term a “Queen Victoria Medal” will be given to the cadet who passes out first on the list at the final examination. Prizes will be given at the final examination for proficiency in each subject. At the end of each Christmas term the “Anson Memorial Sword” will be given to the cadet who passes out first on the list at the final examination.

APPENDIX I.

MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR COMMISSIONS IN THE ARMY.

I. A candidate for a commission in Her Majesty’s army must be in good mental and bodily health, and free from any physical defect likely to interfere with the efficient performance of military duty, and it should be stated whether he is of pure European descent.

II. The examination will be conducted by a Board of medical officers. The Principal Medical Officer, Home District, will be President; the Assistant Professor of Clinical and Military Surgery, Army Medical School, Netley; the Surgeon, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; and the Surgeon, Royal Military College, Sandhurst, may be members of the Board ex officio. The other members will be composed of officers of a rank not lower than major, Royal Army Medical Corps, and in their selection due regard should be given to their possession of special qualifications for the duty.

III. The attention of the Board will be directed to the following points:—
(a.) That the correlation of age, height, weight, and chest-girth is equal or superior to that which is given in the following table:—

Physical Equivalents.

Candidates accepted under the above scale for admission to the Royal Military College must have reached the standard required according to their age before receiving commissions.

(b.) Measurement of height:—
The candidate will be placed against the standard with his feet together, and the weight thrown on the heels, and not on the toes or outside of the feet. He will stand erect without rigidity, and with the heels, calves, buttocks, and shoulders touching the standard; the chin will be depressed to bring the vertex of the head level under the horizontal bar, and the height will be noted in parts of an inch to eighths.

(c.) Measurement of chest:—
The candidate will be made to stand erect with his feet together, and to raise his hands above his head. The tape will be carefully adjusted round the chest, with its posterior upper edge touching the inferior angles of the shoulder-blades, and its anterior lower edge the upper part of the nipples. The arms will then be lowered to hang loosely by the side, and care will be taken that the shoulders are not thrown upwards or backwards so as to displace the tape. The candidate will then be directed to empty his chest of air as much as is possible. This is best done by continuous whistling with the lips as long as sound can be produced. The tape is carefully gathered in during the process, and when the minimum measurement is reached it is recorded. He will then be directed to inflate his chest to its utmost capacity. This maximum measurement will likewise be recorded. The mean of the two measurements will be considered as the true chest-measurement.

(d.) Eyesight:—
The regulations regarding the examination of eyesight are as follows:—

1. If a candidate can read D = 6 at 6 metres (20 English feet) and D = 0·6, at any distance selected by himself, with each eye without glasses, he will be considered fit.
2. If a candidate can only read D = 24 at 6 metres (20 English feet) with each eye without glasses, his visual deficiency being due to faulty refraction which can be corrected by glasses which enable him to read D = 6 at 6 metres (20 English feet) with one eye, and D = 12 at the same distance with the other eye, and can also read D = 0·8 with each eye without glasses, at any distance selected by himself, he will be considered fit.
3. If a candidate cannot read D = 24 at 6 metres (20 English feet) with each eye without glasses, notwithstanding he can read D = 0·6, he will be considered unfit.
   (N.B.—Snellen’s test-types will be used for determining the acuteness of vision.)

Squint, inability to distinguish the principal colours, or any morbid conditions subject to the risk of aggravation or recurrence in either eye, will cause the rejection of a candidate.

IV. The following additional points will then be observed:—
(a.) That his hearing is good.
(b.) That his speech is without impediment.
(c.) That his teeth are in good order. Loss or decay of ten teeth will be considered a disqualification. Decayed teeth, if well filled, will be considered as sound.
(d.) That his chest is well formed, and that his lungs and heart are sound.
(e.) That he is not ruptured.
(f.) That he does not suffer from hydrocele, varicocele, varicose veins in a severe degree, or other disease likely to cause inefficiency. A slight defect, if successfully cured by operation, is not a disqualification.
(g.) That his limbs are well formed and developed.
(h.) That there is free and perfect motion of all the joints.
(i.) That his feet and toes are well formed.
(j.) That he does not suffer from any inveterate skin-disease.
(k.) That he has no congenital malformation or defect.
(l.) That he does not bear traces of previous acute or chronic disease pointing to an impaired constitution.

APPENDIX II.

SYLLABUS OF SUBJECTS FOR THE LITERARY EXAMINATIONS.

Mathematics I.—Arithmetic; algebra up to and including the binomial theorem; the theory and use of logarithms; Euclid, Books I. to IV. and VI.; plane trigonometry, up to and including solution of triangles; mensuration.

Mathematics II.—Further questions on the syllabus of Mathematics I.; elementary solid geometry, including Euclid, Book XI., Propositions 1 to 21, and Book XII., Propositions 1 and 2; geometrical conic sections, the elementary