1. To teach a class in the presence of the inspector. †

2. To answer questions in writing on the following subject:

a. The different methods of organizing an elementary school.

b. The form of, the mode of keeping, and of making Returns from School Registers.

3. Questions connected with moral discipline, as affecting the character and conduct of children. Note.--Only a per-centage of the marks for these exercises will be given in the case of those students (of the second year) † who do not present a certificate, signed by the mistress of the practising school or other officer responsible for the practical instruction of the students in the art of teaching, and countersigned by the superintendent of the Training College, stating that they are satisfied with the aptitude and proficiency of the candidates as practical teachers.

1. Parsing and Analysis of simple sentences.

2. An explanation in clear and simple language of a passage from Goldsmith, or Scott (alternative). The examples for these exercises will be taken in 1877 from the fifth Canto of The Lady of the Lake, and from Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted Village (together). One only of the authors named may be selected by candidates.

3. To write plain prose upon a given subject.

Second Year.

The examples for these exercises will be taken in 1877 from Paradise Lost, Bk. II., and from the third book of Wordsworth's Excursion. One only of the authors named may be selected by candidates.

3. To write plain prose upon a given subject.

GEOGRAPHY.‡ First Year.

1. Elementary knowledge of the shape, size, and motions of the Earth, and of the distribution of land and water upon its surface.

2. The physical and political geography of Great Britain and Ireland. 3. Map drawing, confined to this subject.

1. The British Empire and its dependencies. 2. The physical and political geography of Europe. 3. Map drawing, confined to these subjects.

No questions will be set except such as can be answered from text books in common use.

All questions set will be such as can be answered from text books in common use, except that the final section will embrace subjects respecting the progress of the country, and the national changes in food, clothes, dwellings, locomotion, &c.

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Second Year.

Elementary facts and general outline from the accession of the Tudors to the present time. The papers will contain questions on the history of Scotland.

1. The first four rules.

2. Practice and Bills of Parcels.

3. Simple Proportion.

5. Decimal Fractions.

6. An exercise in Mental Arithmetic.

ARITHMETIC. First Year.

The figures must be well formed, and the sums worked methodically and as good models for children to imitate.

Second Year.

1. As in First Year, but defects in method and neatness more severely visited with loss of marks. 2. Simple Interest.

SEWING AND CUTTING OUT.

Second Year.

The work of a needlewoman in various branches applicable to the family of a working man.

1. Duties of Servants.

2. Household expenses, and investment of money.

3. Practical rules for the preservation of health.

Note--Only a per-centage of the marks for this paper will be given in the case of those students (of both years) who do not present a certificate signed by the superintendent, to the effect that she is satisfied with their practical proficiency in some specified portion of the work usually comprehended under the name of industrial training.

VOCAL MUSIC. First Year.

1. Notation: The treble and bass staves, and the relation between them.

2. Time: Simple common, and simple triple.

3. The scales, major and minor; with the intervals (major and minor, perfect or other) found in both, and the chromatic intervals found in the latter.

4. Transposition from one key to another; and transcription from one variety of time to another (as from to).

Second Year.

1. Notation: The alto and tenor staves, and their relations to the treble and bass.

2. Time: Compound common, and compound triple.

3. Classification of intervals, as perfect and imperfect, consonant and dissonant.