Aug. 11.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1847

PUBLICATION OF RESULTS.

9. As soon as may be after the examination, the names of candidates
   who pass the Intermediate Examination shall be published in the New
   Zealand Gazette. Candidates shall be notified of the result of the examina-
   tion, and shall be entitled to receive a statement of the marks obtained in
   the several subjects.

For any other statement of marks obtained a fee of 2s. 6d. shall be payable
in the manner specified in clause 2 hereof.

GROUP I.

(1) English.

The English paper will be designed to test the literary comprehension
and appreciation of the candidates, and a standard will be required in written
composition such as can reasonably be attained after two years’ secondary
study of good English models. Great importance will be attached not only
to correctness of composition, but also to originality of thought and
expression.

Grammar will be treated from the functional point of view. No formal
parsing will be required. Sentences, clauses, phrases, and parts of speech
should receive just enough attention to allow candidates to do analysis
and to explain clearly errors in accidence and syntax.

Questions may also be set on synthesis, direct and indirect speech,
punctuation, the construction of sentences to indicate the meanings and
uses of words, letter-writing, and the precis of literary or other matter.

(1A) (a) Handwriting.

The copying from print or manuscript of prose, poetry, business letters,
tabulated matter, and commercial papers. In the assessment of marks for
handwriting consideration will be given chiefly to legibility, regularity,
neatness, and speed. Handwriting will be taken into account in all subjects
tested by written examination.

or

(b) Lettering.

The test in lettering will consist of (1) drawing not more than three
Roman letters about two inches high, (2) setting out in plain capitals based
on the Roman forms a short title with sub-title in “lower case” letters
of the same general character.

(2) (a) Arithmetic.

Vulgar and decimal fractions; metric system; approximations, pro-
portion; partnerships; averages; percentages; profit and loss; bank-
ruptcies; taxes, premiums; simple and compound interest; bankers’
discount; stocks and shares; simple cases of exchange; square root;
cube root of numbers reducible to prime factors not greater than 11; 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, of graphical methods and of logarithms,
will be permitted. Special importance will be attached to correct methods
of setting out work.

or

(b) Practical Mathematics.

Long tots; vulgar and decimal fractions; metric system; proportion;
averages; percentages; cost, length, time, angle, area, volume, mass,
weight; square root; cube root of numbers reducible to prime factors not
greater than 11; areas of plane rectilinear figures, and of circles; mensura-
tion of the prism, pyramid, sphere, right circular cylinder, and right circular
cone; use of logarithms; the straight-line graph and its application to
simple practical problems; evaluation of simple explicit functions; methods
of estimating irregular areas; errors; approximations; rough checks. The
construction of plane figures with sides of constant or zero curvature from
sufficient data; and the solution of triangles by drawing to scale; simple
geometrical constructions required in drawing such figures; plotting graphs
from given numerical data and reading interpolation from graphs so plotted.

GROUP II.

(3) General Experimental Science.

(Candidates who select this subject in addition to chemistry are required
to take Section 1 and Section 2. Other candidates who select this
subject take Section 1 and either Section 2 or Section 3.)