MANUAL OF THE

PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS BOARD,

1908.

1. Regulations and Syllabus for the year 1908.

2. Report for the year 1907.

3. Examination Papers for the year 1907.

Price: ONE SHILLING.

ADELAIDE :

G. HASSELL & SON, PRINTERS, 4 FRANKLIN STREET.

Dates of Examinations in 1908

Primary, Junior, and Senior Time Tables for 1908

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Aniversity of Adelaide.

PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS BOARD.

I. There shall be a Board called the Public Examinations Board, which shall be empowered to conduct the Primary, Junior, Senior, and Higher Public Examinations, and the Junior and Senior Commercial Examinations.

II. The Board shall have the conduct of all the administrative work in connection with these examinations, including the nomination of examiners.

III. The Board shall consist of the Professors and Lecturers in the Faculties of Arts and Science.

IV. The Board shall, in or before the month of December in each year, appoint one of its members as Chairman for the succeeding year.

V. Meetings shall be convened by the Chairman at his discretion, or by the Secretary at the request of any two members of the Board.

VI. The Board shall have power from time to time to appoint as additional members any persons who for the time being are acting as examiners in any of the said examinations.

VII. The Board shall report the results of all examinations to the Council.

PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS COMMITTEE.

VIII. There shall, in addition to the said Public Examinations Board, be a committee called the Public Examinations Committee consisting of the members of the Public Examinations Board as defined in §III and of members appointed by the Council under the next succeeding rule.

IX. The Council may appoint the following six persons as members of the Public Examinations Committee:

1. The headmasters of St. Peter's Collegiate School and Prince Alfred College.

2. One representative of the other secondary boys' schools in South Australia, to be nominated by these schools each December.

3. One representative of the secondary girls' schools in South Australia, to be nominated by these schools each December.

4. One representative of the state schools in South Australia, to be nominated by the Director of Education.

5. One representative of the Roman Catholic schools in South Australia, to be nominated by these schools each December.

X. The Chairman and Secretary of the Public Examinations Board shall respectively be ex officio the Chairman and Secretary of the Public Examinations Committee.

XI. Meetings of the Committee shall be convened by the Chairman at his discretion, or by the Secretary at the request of any two members of the Committee.

XII. The powers and duties of the Committee shall be the following:

1. To determine from time to time the details of subjects for the Primary, Junior, Senior, and Higher Public Examinations, the scale of marks to be assigned to these, and the textbooks to be studied.

2. To recommend to the Council alterations in the Regulations for the said examinations.

3. To advise the Council on all matters connected with the said examinations.

The following are the members of the Public Examinations Board for 1908: