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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 67

13. The scope of the said Junior Examination is as follows:—

GROUP I.

(1.) English.—The requirements in English will be based on the programme of work prescribed for Standard VII in the Regulations for the Inspection and Examination of Schools, but will be more advanced in character; the paper will also contain questions on the programme of history and civics prescribed in the same regulations. Great importance will be attached to composition and to the comprehension of literary English.

(2.) Arithmetic.—The requirements will be based on the programme of work prescribed for Standard VII in the Regulations for the Inspection and Examination of Schools, and will include the fundamental rules; vulgar and decimal fractions; approximations; proportion; percentages (including interest, profit and loss); stocks; square root; cube root of numbers reducible to prime factors not greater than eleven; metric system; areas of plane rectilinear figures and of circles; mensuration of the prism, pyramid, sphere, circular cylinder, and circular cone. The use of algebraical symbols and processes and of graphical methods will be permitted.

GROUP II.

(3.) Elementary Physical Science.—Two papers: Section (a) of the following programme, together with one of the sections (b), (c), (d).

(a.) British and metric systems of measurement: Plotting curves. Measurement of lines and of areas of simple plane surfaces; measurement of the volume of regular and irregular solids and of liquids; the balance; tests of accuracy; methods of weighing; rules to be observed in weighing.

Experiments illustrating the properties of matter, the indestructibility of matter, the difference between physical and chemical change and between mechanical mixtures and chemical compounds. Very simple experiments illustrating the meaning of evaporation, condensation, filtration, diffusion, solution, and crystallization.

Density of solids and liquids; principles 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 its position in very simple cases; stable, unstable, and neutral equilibrium.

The representation of forces; the spring balance; experimental and graphical determination of the resultant of concurrent forces and of parallel forces; moments of force; simple machines; lever; inclined plane; single pulley; common pump; the simple pendulum.

(b.) Measurement of expansion by heat of solids, liquids, and gases; transference of heat; thermometers; experiments on melting and solidifying points (paraffin wax, butter, water), on boiling-points, evaporation and condensation (water, salt solution). Measurement of heat; specific and latent heat of water treated very simply; propagation of light; pinhole images; shadows; photometry; laws of reflection and refraction of light with reference to plane surfaces; transmission of light through a plate, a prism, and a lens; formation of images by single convex lenses; the simple magnifying-glass; the spectrum.

(c.) Properties of magnets; methods of making magnets; induction; elementary notions of the magnetic field and lines of force; the earth as a magnet; dip; declination.

Electrification by friction and by induction; conductors and non-conductors; the gold-leaf electroscope and its use; distribution of electrification on conductors; hollow conductors; the electrophorus.

Elementary notions of the electric current, of the means of producing it, of its magnetic, heating, and chemical effects, of electromotive force and resistance. Ohm’s law. The galvanoscope, its use in detecting changes in the strength of a current and in comparing (roughly) the strength of different currents and the resistances of different conductors. The voltmeter; the glow-lamp.

(d.) Experiments illustrating the modes of chemical action; the examination of air; quantitative composition of air; proof of the presence of the chief constituents of air; the important properties of oxygen and nitrogen; the examination of water; hardness of water; quantitative composition and synthesis of water; important properties of hydrogen; water of crystallization (easy experiments).

The determination and graphic representation of the solubility of solids in water at different temperatures (easy cases).

An elementary study of coal, charcoal, and coke. The important properties of the oxides of carbon. Combustion. Structure of flame as shown in a candle and in a Bunsen burner.