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(b.) Practical tests: A simple ear-test, to consist of phrases to be imitated by the candidate from the examiner’s pattern, or of short passages to be written down from dictation. A time-test, consisting of a few measures to be sung on one note to the examiner’s counting. A tune-test, consisting of a short melody in a major or minor key, and introducing the common accidentals of the sharpened fourth or flattened seventh (fe and ta), or modulation (transition) to the next sharp or flat key; the melody to be sung to the sol-fa syllabus or to “lah,” the examiner giving the keynote. A simple standard song selected by the candidate to be sung in the presence of the examiner.

Viva voce questions on the notation, &c., of the above tests may be asked at the discretion of the examiner.

[For conditions of exemption, where necessary, in Vocal Music, see clause 32.]

(13.) Drawing III.—Drawing on the blackboard: The examination in this branch of drawing is intended to test the capacity of candidates to execute rapid and direct drawings in chalk (white or coloured) on the blackboard. Highly finished drawings are not required, but the sketches should express the ideas they are intended to convey simply and clearly. Candidates will be required to make, with or without instruments, drawings in outline or in mass, as may be most suitable, from memory, knowledge, and imagination, as illustrations of lessons in various subjects of the public-school syllabus—e.g., English, History, Geography, Science, Nature-study, Drawing, and other branches of handwork—all of which afford ample and suitable material for practice.

Candidates will do well to remember, on the one hand, that speed in execution is of no utility unless combined with truth and accuracy, as a drawing which gives an erroneous impression of an object is worse than useless; and, on the other hand, that slowness in delineating an object tends to make drawing a hindrance instead of an aid to a lesson; and, more than all, that speed with accuracy and truth of expression can only be acquired by steady and adequate practice and by attentive observation.

(14.) Needlework.—The repairing of any plain article of under-clothing; the drawing of diagrams of such a plain article, and the cutting-out and making of it. The answering of questions on needlework as required in the public-school syllabus.

Candidates holding certificates in Plain Needlework or in Dressmaking granted by the City and Guilds of London Institute are entitled to exemption from further examination in this subject for the Class D and Class C certificates.

Group IV.

Division I.

(15.) Elementary Experimental Physics.—The candidate will be expected to show that he has acquired his knowledge of the matters set forth in the subjoined syllabus by actual experiment, observation, and measurement; but he will not be expected to show that he is familiar with other than the simple apparatus and appliances commonly used in connection with elementary instruction in practical physics in primary or secondary schools.

British and metric systems of measurement. Plotting curves. Measurement of lines and of areas of simple plane and curved surfaces; measurement of the volume of regular and irregular solids; indirect measurements (e.g., thickness of thin, uniform plates, wires, &c.). The vernier, slide callipers, and micrometer. The balance; tests of accuracy; methods of weighing; rules to be observed in weighing.

Density of solids and liquids; principle of Archimedes; specific gravity; flotation; the hydrometer and lactometer; the U tube. Transmission of fluid pressure; water-level; artesian wells. The barometer; verification of Boyle’s law. Centre of gravity; methods of finding