COUNCIL OF HIGHER EDUCATION, NEWFOUNDLAND.

SCHOOL MANAGEMENT (Intermediate Grade).

Thursday, June 26th, 1913.-Morning, 11.15 to 1.15.

Work neatly.

1. Write brief notes of a lesson to be given on any one of the following subjects. Mention the age of the pupils, the time required for the lesson, and any special previous knowledge that you assume the class to possess.

(a) The use of brackets in Algebra.

(b) The natural productions of Newfoundland.

(c) The taking of Quebec in 1759.

(d) The Nominative Absolute.

(22)

2. If you were asked to criticize an examination paper, what are the tests you would apply so as to discover whether you could approve of the paper or not?

(16) 3. Draw up a time-table for a week for a class of average age thirteen, the subjects taken being: Scripture, Reading, Writing, Dictation, English Grammar, Composition, Arithmetic, Geography, History, Drawing, Singing, Drill.

(20)

4. How would you deal with cases of either "copying" or "talebearing" in school? (14)

5. When a new pupil comes to school, on what grounds do you propose to determine the class into which he is to be put ?

6. Answer only one of the two following:

(14)

(a) State the stage in the teaching of Arithmetic at which you would introduce the idea of the decimal point, and give your reasons.

(b) What are the difficulties connected with the correction of Composition exercises, and how do you propose to overcome them?

(14)

SHORTHAND (Intermediate Grade).

Friday, June 27th, 1913.-Afternoon, 12.15 to 1.

Candidates must not use india-rubber or make any erasures.

I.

Ten minutes allowed.

To gain full marks, thirty words a minute must be transcribed neatly and correctly; twenty-five words a minute, fairly well done, will secure a pass.

Transcribe into Shorthand :

Each

And even such are those delightful glens which cut the high tableland of the confines of Devon and Cornwall, and opening each through its gorge of down and rock towards the boundless western ocean. is like the other, and each is like no other English scenery. Each has its upright walls, inland of rich oak wood, nearer the sea of dark green furze, then of smooth turf, then of weird black cliffs which range out right and left far into the deep sea, in castles, spires, and wings of jagged iron-stone. Each has its own narrow strip of fertile meadow, its crystal trout stream winding across and across from one hill-foot to the other; its grey stone mill, with the water sparkling and humming round the dripping wheel; its dark rock pools above the tide mark, where the salmon trout gather in from their Atlantic wanderings after each autumn flood; its ridge of blown sand, bright with golden trefoil and crimson lady's-finger; its grey bank of polished pebbles, down which the stream rattles towards the sea below. Each has its black field of jagged shark'stooth rock which paves the cove from side to side, streaked with here and there a pink line of shell sand, and laced with white foam from the eternal surge, stretching in parallel lines out to the westward, in strata set upright on edge, or tilted towards each other at strange angles by primeval earthquakes. Such is the "mouth ". -as those coves are called -and such the jaw of teeth which they display, one rasp of which would grind abroad the timbers of the stoutest ship. To landward, all richness, softness and peace; to seaward, a waste and howling wilderness of rock and roller, barren to the fisherman and quite hopeless to the shipwrecked mariner. (30)

II.

Take down, in Shorthand, the three passages that will be read by the Presiding Examiner, and transcribe the first two.

(70)

Seven minutes for dictation. Twenty-eight minutes for transcription.

SHORTHAND (Intermediate Grade).

Friday, June 27th, 1913. Afternoon, 12.15 to 1.

PASSAGES FOR DICTATION.

Seven minutes for dictation. Twenty-eight minutes for transcription. The following passages will be read in a measured flow. The diagonal lines do not indicate any pause in the reading, but merely show the number of words which ought to be read in each half-minute or quarter of a minute.

INSTRUCTIONS TO BE READ TO THE CANDIDATES. Three passages will be dictated: the first at 30 words per minute, the second at 50 words per minute, and the third at 60 words per minute. Candidates are to take down all three passages, and their shorthand notes will be submitted to the Examiner, but only the first two passages are to be transcribed. Accuracy is the matter of most importance. Candidates will find it an advantage if they take down each passage on a separate page and leave the opposite page in each case for the transcription. Candidates must not use india-rubber or make any erasures.

Minutes.

1

(30 words per minute.)

Mr. Anderson, managing director, presided at the annual general meeting, and, in moving the adoption / of the report, said that during the period under review very heavy expenditure had been / made on 1 capital account, and the benefit of this should be felt at an early / date in the increased output and lower working costs. Twelve thousand tons of ore, with / an approximate gross value of £100,000, 24 had been shipped during the year. !

2

1

(50 words per minute.)

The new concentration plant was designed to handle about 60,000 tons of ore per annum, and there would therefore be a large increase in the gross value of ore treated in the future. They had now completed the erection of the concentration plant, and the latest advices from the mine were to the effect that the plant was running satisfactorily. The directors had hoped that this plant 11⁄2 would be running by the middle of / this year, but unforeseen delays had arisen, and it had taken a longer time than was estimated to complete the erection. The method of treatment / adopted was one that was giving highly satisfactory results in France, Germany, and Spain, where installations were already obtaining unusually high 2 recoveries of copper values. /

2

1

(60 words per minute.)

It was fortunate for the company that this process had been invented when it was, as otherwise it would have been next to impossible to concentrate the company's large bodies / of carbonate ores without the erection of a smelter except by the method of hand / picking which the company had adopted hitherto. The company was now enabled to concentrate and ship its carbonate ores to 11 much greater advantage, and would be able to deal profitably / with 11 ore of a lower grade than it had hitherto been able to do. The / company having issued the whole of its capital, it would be 12 necessary to make a further issue, and this matter was now 2 engaging the attention of the board of directors. /

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TYPEWRITING AND OFFICE ROUTINE

(Intermediate Grade).

Friday, June 27th, 1913.-Morning, 9 to 11.

The Theory Paper and the Time Test must each be commenced on a fresh sheet, on which must be typed at the head the candidate's examination number.

If the candidate loses time through a defective machine, or finishes the whole of the work before the expiration of the time allowed, the fact must be notified on the candidate's worked papers, and will be taken into account by the Examiner.

1. Typewriting Time Test.

(35)

2. Describe the process of duplicating copies from a typed stencil.

(10)

3. Describe a method for preserving inward correspondence.

(8)

4. What is a receipt, and what should it contain? Make out an imaginary receipt for a sum of £3.

5. For what purposes are the following marks employed ?—

(7)

8. Compose letters on separate sheets as follows:

(a) Mr. John Hosier, proprietor of a retail drapery establishment in Oxford Street, London, W., on the 7th inst. ordered some goods from Messrs. Worsted & Yarn, Wholesale Manufacturers, of Halifax, Yorks. Delivery was requested within seven days; sixteen days have elapsed, and yet goods are undelivered; stock is exhausted and customers' demands cannot be met, occasioning inconvenience and loss. On behalf of the retail dealer write a peremptory letter to the wholesale manufacturers, embodying the particulars given, asking a reason for non-delivery, and urging immediate execution of the order.

(b) Compose an appropriate reply on behalf of the Wholesale Manufacturers. (20)