arithmetical one, that it is therefore incontrovertible. It is very liable to error where the number of candidates in any Training School is small, and it takes no account of the different degrees of attainment with which the students in different schools enter them. There can be little doubt that the better instructed and the more intelligent and enterprising students seek the larger training schools; whilst the less instructed and intelligent prefer the smaller diocesan schools. The division by the number of months of residence in the last table supposes, moreover, the whole knowledge acquired in the Training School, and to have been equally divided through the whole time of residence, which we have no right to assume."

"Nevertheless these tables afford a standard of comparison which, if duly corrected, is not without its value and importance."—Minutes, Vol. I. 1851-2, p. 292.

TABLE NO. VII.

The Training Schools are here arranged in the Order of Merit in their secular Studies, as indicated by the Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 6.

Geography.

1

44.19 27-91 2-33 34-88 20.93 16.28 58 12 41.86 62-79 51.16

2

34.04 14.90 21-27 12.76 21-27 12.76 44-68

61.71 29 79 36.18

23.07 23.97 ⚫00 23.07 23:07 38-46 53.85

53.85 30.77 30.77 00 3500 30.00 25.00 65.00 4000 5000 55.00

Good.

Fair.

Moderate.

Imperfect.

Failure.

Church of

Questions set at the General Examination of the
England Training Schools for Schoolmasters.

CHRISTMAS 1851.

N.B.-All your answers are to be written on this Paper. Answers written on any other Paper will not be looked over.

You are not to answer more than one question in each Section.

Before beginning your answers you are to fill up the following Table.

Your Christian

Name and Surname.

State whether you are a Pupil-teacher admitted to compete for a Queen's Scholarship, and from wha School.*

The Name of your
Training School.

The Month and Year
in which you entered
the Training School.
If you have left, state
the Month and Year
in which you left.

If you are in charge of a School state the name of it, the date at| which you entered on charge and of it, whether your engagement is permanent or temporary.

* In order to limit as little as possible the opportunities by which peculiar talents may be exhibited, it is not perhaps desirable to prescribe which of the subjects of examination the candidates for Queen's scholarships shall be at liberty to select, further than to state strongly their Lordships' opinion that they should not attempt answers upon all the subjects.

The following subjects must not be wholly omitted by any candidate, viz.

1. The Holy Scriptures, the Catechism, and the Liturgy of the Church of England (in schools connected with the Church of England).

6. The Notes of a Lesson, or some observations on the Practical Duties of a Teacher.

A Candidate who answers in these subjects really well, may obtain an Exhibition of 201. for

one year.

A Candidate who answers in the foregoing subjects really well, and also in one other subject really well (to be selected by himself out of those proposed to the Candidates for Certificates of Merit, but with a preference on the part of my Lords for the three first books of Euclid,) may obtain an Exhibition of 251. for one year.

If a Candidate attempts a greater number of subjects, he will do so on his own responsibility. My Lords cou'd not but be happy to find that he was able to answer in a greater number of subjects well; but the extent of the subjects attempted will not be accepted in lieu of mastery over those which are indispensable.

Candidates for Queen's scholarships in FEMALE training schools will not be required to answer questions in Vulgar Fractions or Decimals. For the higher Exhibitions they will be at liberty to select one of the subjects proposed to Female Candidates for Certificates of Merit, such as Bookkeeping, Biographical Memoirs, or Domestic Economy. Their Lordships would prefer a knowledge of some good Manual upon the last-named subject, in connexion with which they will be prepared to give due weight to Certificates from the Managers of the Candidate's school, attesting her practical knowledge of household duties.

The Exhibitions awarded to females will be at the rate of two-thirds of those awarded to males, viz. 131. 6s. 8d. and 161. 13s. 4d. instead of 201. and 251., to correspond with the different expense of boarding in training schools, for Males and Females respectively.

The first question in each Section has been framed more especially with reference to Candidates for Queen's Scholarships.

Examination Papers of Training Colleges. 435

SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE.

(THREE HOURS ALLOWED FOR THIS PAPER.)

Section 1.

What events are recorded in Scripture to have occurred in one of the following periods?

1. From the institution of the Passover to the arrival of the Israelites at Sinai.

2. From the death of David to that of Rehoboam.

3. During the captivity in Babylon.

Section 2.

1. Describe the daily sacrifice, and the sacrifice of the Great Day of Atonement, and show their typical character.

2. Describe the cleansing of the leper, and the sacrifice for the cleansing of a leprous house (Lev. 14), and show their typical character. Who are related in Scripture to have been smitten with leprosy as a punishment?

3. In keeping the Passover, what observances were in the time of our Lord added by the Jews to those prescribed in the Book of Exodus? How is this illustrated in the account of the Last Supper?

Section 3.

1. Relate our Lord's conversation with Nicodemus.

2. On what occasions, and in what words, did John the Baptist bear witness that Jesus was the Messiah? Whence did the Jews derive the expectation of a deliverer under that name?

3. What events occurred between our Lord's agony in the garden, and his death?

Section 4.

1. What is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles of the history of the Church at Antioch?

2. What is recorded of Apollos, and of St. Paul's second visit to Ephesus? 3. Relate what you remember of St. Paul's discourses at Lystra, at Athens, and before Agrippa.

Section 5.

1. Draw a map illustrative of the journey of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan.

2. Draw a map of Judea illustrative of the gospel history.

3. Draw a plan of Jerusalem.

CATECHISM, LITURGY, AND CHURCH HISTORY.

(THREE HOURS ALLOWED FOR THIS PAPER.)

Section 1.

1. "What is thy duty towards God?"

Give scriptural authority for each clause in the answer to this question in the Catechism; and explain the three last clauses as you would to a class in your school.

2. "My good child, know this, that thou art not able to do these things of thyself, nor to walk in the commandments of God, and to serve him, without