GENERAL NOTES. 1. DRAWING. The University does not at present examine in Drawing For information other than that given in the syllabuses, candidates are advised to apply to the Director for Technical Art, School of Design. Candidates who desire to be credited with having passed in Drawing must enter the numbers of their Drawing certificate on the entry form. 2. PRIZE WINNERS, &C. Prize Winners and candidates qualifying for the University or other scholarships are required to submit certificates of birth, or other satisfactory evidence that they are under the age limit prescribed in the Regulations. 3. APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATES. Candidates who have taken more than one year to complete their certificates are requested, on making applications for them, to state at what time and in what subjects they have passed. 4. INDIVIDUAL REPORTS. On application to the Board a report on the work of any candidate who has failed may be supplied on payment of a fee of ten shillings for each subject in which the report is requested. Such application must be made within two months of the date of publication of the results. PRIMARY PUBLIC EXAMINATION. REGULATIONS. I. Every candidate must satisfy the Public Examinations Board in at least four of the following subjects, of which two must be numbers 1 and 2: 1. English Grammar and Dictation. 2. Arithmetic. 3. Geography of the British Isles and 4. English History. 5. Greek. 6. Latin. 7. French. 8. German. 9. Algebra. 10. Geometry. 11. Drawing. II. A candidate who does not pass in four subjects, including numbers 1 and 2, fails in the whole examination. III. The examination will be held during the month of August or September in each year. IV. Candidates must give at least four weeks' notice of their intention to present themselves, and such notice must be given on a printed form, which may be obtained from the Registrar, or, in the case of Local Centres, from the Local Secretary. V. Each candidate at the time of giving notice to attend shall pay a fee of 10s.; and if he enters for more than four subjects he shall pay a fee of 2s. 6d. for each additional subject. In no case will the fee be returned; but if, not less than seven days before the examination, a candidate shall notify to the Secretary his intention to withdraw, the fee shall stand to his credit for a future examination. VI. Candidates who may fail to give notice by the prescribed date may be permitted by the Board to present themselves on payment of an extra fee of 5s. VII. A list of successful candidates, arranged in alphabetical order, showing the subjects in which the candidate passed and the last place of education from which each candidate comes, will be posted at the University and published in the report on the public examinations. VIII. Each successful candidate shall be entitled to a certificate showing in what subjects the candidate has passed. IX. On application to the Secretary to the Board unsuccessful candidates shall be informed in what subjects they have failed. X. Schedules defining as far as may be necessary the range of the questions to be set shall be published not less than twelve months before the date of the examination to which they are intended to apply. Allowed December 11, 1901. SYLLABUS FOR THE EXAMINATION TO BE HELD IN AUGUST, 1907. 1. ENGLISH. (a) GRAMMAR. An elementary knowledge of grammatical distinctions, including inflexions, the parsing and analysis of sentences, and the detection of grammatical errors. The meaning of words in commen use. (b) COMPOSITION. An essay or letter on a simple subject, mainly to test grammatical accuracy and punctuation. (c) DICTATION. A list of words in common use. 2. ARITHMETIC. Easy questions on the elementary processes of arithmetic, including fractions, non-recurring decimals, practice, rectangular areas and volumes. 3. GEOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH ISLES AND AUSTRALASIA. (a) GEOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH ISLES as in Arnold's New shilling geography and Gregory's Austral geography for Class 1, pp. 30-57. (Whitcombe and Tombs. 9d.) (b) GEOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALASIA as in Gregory's Austral geography for Class III. (Whitcombe and Tombs. 4d.) Candidates may be required to draw rough sketch-maps. 4. ENGLISH HISTORY. Gilles, W. Simple studies in English history; rev. ed., 1905. (Whitcombe and Tombs. 18. 8d.) 5. GREEK. 6. LATIN. [Candidates are particularly requested to purchase the rev. ed., dated 1905.] Underhill, H. G. Easy exercises in Greek accidence (Macmillan. 2s.), exercises i-xviii. Cook, A. M. Shorter Latin course, first part. (Macmillan. 18. 6d.) 7. FRENCH. (a) Grammar. Fasnacht, G. E. Progressive French course, first year. (Macmillan. 1s.) (b) Easy translation from French into English, and from English into French. 8. GERMAN. (a) Grammar. Fasnacht, G. E. Progressive German course, first year (6) Easy translation from German into English, and from English into German. 9. ALGEBRA. Elements of algebra, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, easy fractions, easy equations of the first degree containing not more than two unknown quantities with problems leading to such equations. 10. GEOMETRY. PRACTICAL GEOMETRY. The following constructions and easy extensions of them: Bisection of angles and of straight lines; construction of perpendiculars to straight lines; simple cases of the construction of triangles from sufficient data; construction of parallels to a given straight line; construction of angles equal to a given angle. THEORETICAL GEOMETRY. The substance of the theorems contained in Euclid, Book I, Propositions 4-6, 8, 13-16, 18, 19, 26-30, 32; questions upon these theorems, easy deductions, and arithmetical illustrations. Every candidate must be provided with a ruler, graduated in inches and tenths of an inch and in centimetres and millimetres, a small set square, a protractor, compasses furnished with a hard pencil point, and a hard pencil. Questions may be set in which the use of the set square or of the protractor is forbidden. Figures should be drawn accurately with a hard pencil. Any proof of a proposition will be accepted which appears to the examiners to form part of a logical order of treatment of the subject. In the proof of theorems and deductions from them, the use of hypothetical constructions is permitted. *11. DRAWING. (a) First Grade Freehand, and (b) First Grade Plane Geometry. For the present the University will not examine in these subjects, but will accept the certificates of the Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia. The examination, however, must be passed at the same time as the other subjects of the examination. [For particulars concerning Drawing apply to the Director for Technical Art, School of Design.] JUNIOR PUBLIC EXAMINATION. REGULATIONS. *I. Every candidate shall be required to satisfy the Public Examinations Board in at least five of the following subjects, but there is no limit to the number of subjects for which a candi II. The examination shall begin on or about the last Monday in November. III. Candidates who fail to pass in five subjects shall be credited with any subjects in which they do pass, and when they have completed the five subjects shall receive certificates showing the subjects in which they have passed, and the dates, but candidates may again present themselves in any subject in which they have already passed. IV. Candidates who have already obtained certificates may have other subjects added to their certificates by passing them at later examinations. *V. The following fees, which do not include fees for Drawing or Theory of Music, shall be paid by each candidate on entering his name for the examination: For candidates who have not previously presented themselves Subsequent entries: For each separate subject Or, For the whole examination £1 0 0 0 50 1 0 0 In no case will the fee be returned, but if, not less than seven days before the examination, a candidate shall notify to the Secretary to the Board his intention to withdraw, the fee shall stand to his credit for a future examination. * Allowed January 3, 1907. |