and if they could be induced to do so they would be withdrawn from the schools just at the time when their services were becoming very valuable to the Board. I think further, that it is very important that pupil teachers should be taught how to study for themselves during their apprenticeship-how to use the excellent text-books now published, so as to make the best use of the short time they have to devote to study after their daily teaching. This, I think, could be well done during this preparatory training, and the rawness and pert monitor-like style of our very juvenile first-year pupil teachers would disappear, to the great advantage of the children they have to handle. During the year thirty-eight candidates for employment presented themselves to me-twenty males and eighteen females. The results from this class appear below: EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR SCHOLARSHIPS IN GRAMMAR SCHOOLS, 17TH AND 18TH DECEMBER, 1874 ARITHMETIC. (Three hours allowed for this Paper.) 1. (a) Explain what is meant by the terms Notation, Factor, Minuend, Quotient, Square Root, Compound Division. (b) How often can 4 ac. 3 ro. 27 per. be subtracted from 1,416 ac. 2 ro. 21 pèr. ? and what will be the remainder? 2. (a) What number must be added to seventeen millions thirty thousand and sixteen to make it divisible without remainder by three millions eight hundred and three thousand and forty. (b) Express 9,090 in Roman notation. 3. (a) Explain what is meant by prime numbers, composite numbers, and numbers prime to one another. (b) Resolve each of the numbers 2,046, 4,578, and 540 into its prime factors, and thence deduce the greatest common measure and the least common multiple of the three numbers. 4. If of an hotel bill of £3 Os. 114d. my share and that of two others amounts to 16s. 7 d., how many are there in the company ? 5. Find by two methods, one being Practice, the value of 246 ac. 2 ro. 153 poles at £1 7s. 6d. per acre. 6. What is the cube of that number which, when multiplied by of of 14, will produce 1 ? 7. A man can row from A. to B. (a distance of 24 miles) and back in still water in 12 hours; how long will it take him to do the same when there is a stream flowing from A. to B. at the rate of two miles an hour? 9. (a) Divide 0052 by 013. (b) What is the value of £7. 803 ? (c) Reduce 7 oz. 4 dwt. to the decimal of a pound troy. 10. 15 men can reap a field in 9 days; when half the work is done 5 men are obliged to leave; in how many days will the remainder finish it? 11. A gentleman has a bowling green 300 feet long and 200 feet broad, which he would raise one foot higher by means of the earth to be dug out of a ditch that goes round it; to what depth must the ditch be dug, supposing the breadth to be everywhere 8 feet? GEOGRAPHY. (Three hours allowed for this Paper.) 1. (a) Explain what is meant by the terms:-horizon, great circle, solstice, nadir. (b) Give as many reasons as you can for your belief that the earth is round. 2. (a) What is the latitude of a place which lies a thousand miles from the North Pole? (b) How many miles is it from the Tropic of Capricorn? 3. (c) What advantages result from ocean currents? (b) Trace the courses of three important currents in the Atlantic Ocean; and (c) Specify in the case of two of them the modifying influences which they respectively exert on the climates of certain countries. 4. What are savannas, prairies, pampas, llanos, silvas, steppes, landes? Where are they respectively to be found? 5. Supposing a ship to coast along the shores of Europe, from St. Petersburg to Sebastopol, (a) What river mouths would she pass? (b) What straits would she pass through? (c) What countries would she sight? .6. Draw an outline map of England and Wales, and indicate the position of the following: Rivers-Thames, Severn, Humber. Towns-London, Bristol, Hull, Liverpool, Carlisle. Mountains-Cheviots, The Peak, Snowdon, Helvellyn. Capes-North Foreland, Lizard Point, St. Bee's Head. Islands-Anglesea, Holy Island, Isle of Wight, Scilly Islands. 7. State under the following heads what you know of Switzerland:-Boundaries, mountains, rivers, lakes, climate, productions, people, chief towns. 8. Give, as precisely as you can, the position of the following:-Luzon, Gulf of Cutch, Staten Island, Lake Nicaragua, Lake Champlain, Damascus, Mount St. Elias, Lassa, Valetta, Wick, Botany Bay, Gaeta, Munich, Tuscany, Unst, Clew Bay, Cape Amber, Trinity Bay, Great Namaqua Land, Grafton. GRAMMAR, Price, 28.] GRAMMAR. (Three hours allowed for this Paper.) 1. Explain the meaning of the following words :-Grammar, etymology, parsing, analysis, case, sentence. 2. (a) Define a preposition. Why is it so called ? (b) In what respect does the preposition resemble, and in what respect does it differ from the conjunction? (c) Point out the words which are related by each of the prepositions in the following sentence:"By the end of September, the sailors were completely frozen up in the ocean; masses of ice formed around them, and they were unable to move their ship for nearly eleven months." 3. (a) Write the ordinary, the progressive, and the emphatic forms of the first person of the past and future tenses of the verb fling. (b) Name the auxiliary verbs, and exemplify by the verb seek the use of the auxiliaries of voice, mood, and tense. 4. The words desert, gill, and use are pronounced in two ways; what are the different pronunciations and meanings in each case? 5. (a) Give the meaning of the Latin roots ira, plus, spondeo, and give three English derivatives from each of them. (b) Write six Latin and six Greek prefixes with their meanings, and illustrate each by one example. 6. Correct the errors in the following passage, and punctuate it:-the judgemints wich johnson past on books was in is own time rigardid with souperstitous venniration and in our time are gennarily treeted with indescrimanet contemp they are the judgmints of a strongg but inslavd undirstandin thee mind off the critique was hedgedt rounde by a uninterupted fense of prejudises and soupirstitions. 7. Name five modes in which the subject of a sentence can be enlarged, and give one example of each. 8. Analyse the following passage: There's beauty in the old monastic pile, Its sacrilegious banner o'er the shrine, Yet amidst dust, and darkness, and decline, A beauty mantles still the edifice divine. 9. Parse fully the words in italics, and quote the rules of syntax applicable. By Authority: JAMES C. BEAL, Government Printer, William street, Brisbane. |