LONDON: Printed by GEORGE E. EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, EXAMINATION, CHRISTMAS, 1879. I. QUESTIONS PROPOSED ΤΟ STUDENTS IN TRAINING COLLEGES AND TEACHERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. II. LISTS OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES. III. SYLLABUS OF SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION LONGMANS AND CO., 39, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1880. (Price Sixpence.) PROPOSED TO STUDENTS IN TRAINING COLLEGES, AND TEACHERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. CHRISTMAS, 1879. A Notice to the following effect is issued to Candidates as to Copying and Clandestine Assistance. CANDIDATES WHO ARE DETECTED— (a.) Introducing into the Examination Room, or having about them, any book or writing, whether any one uses it or not, from which answers may be copied; (b.) Applying, under any circumstances whatever, to other Candidates; (c.) Answering, under any circumstances whatever, applications from other Candidates; (d.) Copying, under any circumstances whatever, one from another; or, (e.) Conniving at any misconduct of this kind; will be dismissed from the Examination, and will be suspended, for a period not exceeding three years, from all recognition by the Committee of Council. The plea of accident, or forgetfulness, will not be received. Candidates must leave the blotting paper, and paper for making rough drafts, which are supplied by the Inspector, on their desks at the end of each sitting, and must bring none other into the room. The use of blotting paper for rough drafts, or for any writing whatever, is strictly forbidden. Candidates may not bring into the examination room any instrument or material for writing, except pens, ink, pencil, knife, india-rubber. Whatever questions Candidates may have to usk, or remarks to make, during the Examination, must be addressed to the Inspector only. NOTE.-Except where different directions are printed, the time allowed for each paper in the following series was three hours, and Candidates were restricted to one question in each section. MALE CANDIDATES-FIRST YEAR. ARITHMETIC.† Two hours and a HALF allowed for this Paper. The solution must be given at such length as to be intelligible to the Examiner, otherwise the answer will be considered of no value. [This direction was repeated in all papers on the same subject, for other classes of Candidates.] SECTION I a. How many multiples of four hundred and seventynine lie between fourteen hundred, and one million five hundred and thirty-nine thousand and twenty-seven? b. What is the effect upon the remainder, if the divisor be increased by a small quantity without altering the quotient? c. What is the average weight in lbs. of nine hams arranged in a row, if the ham at one end of the row weighs 14 qrs. and the weight of each of the others in succession is greater by 36 oz. than the weight of the ham next preceding it in the row? d. How many houses can be built on a frontage of of a mile, each house having a frontage of 36 feet 8 inches, allowing for 11 streets, each having a width of 40 feet? [These form one question.] SECTION II. 1. An emigrant ship allows 64 cubic ft. of luggage for each person, and requires 10d. for each cubic foot in excess of this allowance: a man pays £7. 13s. 4d. excess for his own, his wife's, and his daughter's luggage; how many cubic feet of luggage does the man take, if his wife and daughter each take half as much again as he did? † See infrà p. 39. |