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The Examination of Acting Teachers for Certificates will commence on Monday, the 7th July, 1902, at 2 p.m.

Candidates are recommended to make themselves acquainted with Articles 41-56 of the Scotch Code of 1901.

CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION.

SYLLABUS FOR ACTING TEACHERS.

REGULATIONS.

1. Under the provisions of Article 46 of the Code the names of candidates-not being students who desire to be examined must be notified to the Department before the first day of March, 1902. This notification must be made on the Form 147 by the official correspondent of the school.

2. School Teachers' Superannuation Rules (Scotland), 1899.

Evidence of Physical Capacity and Age:

Every candidate desirous of being examined in second year papers, whether previously so examined or not, must forward to the Department satisfactory evidence of physical capacity. The medical

examination must take place not earlier than the 1st day of April and not later than the 1st day of June in the year in which the second year's certificate examination is to take place. A blank form of Medical Certificate will be issued from the Department.

The evidence of age must be produced by means of the Certificate of a Registrar of Births and Deaths at the time of the application to attend the second year's certificate examination. In the case of Acting Teachers the Registrar's Certificate of Birth should be forwarded to the Department with Form 147, unless the Certificate has been previously forwarded to the Department.

3. The subjects of examination laid down in this Syllabus are open to candidates of both sexes unless otherwise specified.

4. The maximum number of marks allowed for each subject is indicated by the figures within brackets [ ].

5. The subjects in which failure excludes from a Certificate under General Regulation 3, page 15, are denoted by the sign (f).

6. No information can be afforded by the Department as to the marks obtained by individual candidates.

7. Copies of the papers set at the previous examinations can be obtained, either directly or through any Bookseller, from Eyre and Spottiswoode, East Harding Street, Fleet Street, London, E.C., and 32, Abingdon Street, Westminster, S. W.; or Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh; or E. Ponsonby, 116, Grafton Street, Dublin.

FIRST YEAR.

I. OBLIGATORY SUBJECTS.

Reading (f) [50].

Candidates must read to H.M. Inspector at his visit to their school next before the Certificate Examination.

To read with a distinct utterance, due attention to the punctuation and just expression.

Candidates will be expected to read prose and poetry from (1) Scott's" "Ivanhoe," and (2) Tennyson's " Idylls of the King."

Penmanship (f) [50] and Dictation (f) [50].

Writing, as taught in schools, is apt to be too small and indistinct.
Pupils should be taught to write a firm, round, legible hand.

1 To write a specimen of the penmanship used in setting copies of
text hand and small hand.

2. To write a passage from dictation.

3. The general character of the writing in the examination papers will be considered in deciding upon the proficiency of candidates in the subject.

Composition.

English (f) [100] + [50].

1. Parsing, Analysis, and the principles of Grammar.

2. An intelligent acquaintance with the language, style, and subject
matter of the first book of Spenser's "Faerie Queene" and De
Quincey's "Confessions of an Opium Eater."

In 1903 the books will be the fourth book of
Kingsley's Heroes."

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3. To write plain prose upon a given subject.

"Paradise Lost" and

Mental Arithmetic.

Arithmetic (f).-Males [80] + [40].

1. To work arithmetical sums, both mentally and on paper.

2. To prove and explain the rules.

The figures should be well formed and the work methodically arranged as a good model for children to imitate.

[The use of algebraical symbols in the solution of arithmetical questions is not permitted.]

1st

Year

1902.

1st Year.

Algebra and Mensuration-Males [100].

To answer simple questions, both theoretical and practical, in algebra, 1902. and the mensuration of plane surfaces.

In algebra, candidates should understand the four simple rules, involution, evolution, common measures, common multiples, algebraic fractions and surds, and the solution of simple and easy quadratic equations of one or more unknown quantities, ratio and proportion, or problems producing such. In mensuration they should understand the measurement of every species of plane rectilineal figure and of the circle.

Geometry and Dynamics-Males [100].

1. The first four books of Euclid, the first nine propositions of Book VI., and Euclid's definition of Proportion, with simple deductions from the propositions and easy geometrical problems.

2. Dynamics, or the Elementary Statics and Kinetics of Solids, Liquids, and Gases.

Mental Arithmetic.

Arithmetic and Algebra (f)-Females [80] + [40].

The figures should be well formed and the work methodically arranged as a good model for children to imitate. The paper will contain questions requiring an explanation of the arithmetical processes employed. [The use of algebraical symbols in the solution of arithmetical questions is not permitted.]

1. The first four rules.

ARITHMETIC.

2. Practice and bills of parcels.

3. Vulgar fractions.

4. Decimal fractions.

5. Simple and compound proportion.

6. An exercise in mental arithmetic.

ALGEBRA.

The simple rules with the solution of easy simple equations or problems producing such, and simple equations of two unknown quantities.

Domestic Economy-Females [75].

1. Food-its composition, function, and preparation.

2. Clothing and Laundry.

3. The Dwelling.

4. The Laws of Health and Sick Room Management.

5. Household Expenses and Investment of Money.