LONDON: Printed by GEORGE E. B. EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, For Her Majesty's Stationery Office. EXAMINATION, CHRISTMAS, 1882. I. QUESTIONS PROPOSED TO STUDENTS IN TRAINING COLLEGES AND TEACHERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. II. LISTS OF SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES. III. SYLLABUS OF SUBJECTS OF EXAMINATION PROPOSED TO STUDENTS IN TRAINING COLLEGES AND TEACHERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. CHRISTMAS, 1882. 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 ask, or remarks to make, during the Examination, must be addressed to the Inspector only. R 6699. Wt. 1091. A 2 NOTE.-Except where different directions are printed, the time allowed for each paper in the following series was three hours. MALE CANDIDATES.-FIRST YEAR. ARITHMETIC.* Two hours and a HALF allowed for this Paper. Candidates are not permitted to answer more than ten questions. The solution must be given at such length as to be intelligible to the Examiner, otherwise the answer will be considered of no value. 1. A cubical box is covered by £3 worth of penny postage stamps, each of which is 24 millimetres long, and 20 millimetres wide. Find the length of an edge of the box. 2. What will be the cost of carpeting a room 27 feet long and 16 feet 6 inches wide, with a border all round of of a yard wide at 3s. 6d. a yard, and inside of the border plain carpet of of a yard wide at 5s. a yard? 3. In a Fahrenheit thermometer the distance between the freezing point and the boiling point is divided into 180 degrees. In the Centigrade thermometer the same distance is divided into 100 degrees. The freezing point in the Fahrenheit is marked 32 degrees, in the Centigrade the graduation begins at the freezing point. How many degrees Centigrade will correspond with 95 degrees Fahrenheit? 4. If 27 men, working 35 days at the pay of 84d. per hour, earn £301. 4s. 4d.; in how many days will 51 men earn £481. 19s. at 9d. per hour, the number of hours of work per day being the same in each case? 5. In what proportion must teas, worth 2s. 3d. and 3s. per lb., be mixed to give a mixture worth 2s. 8d. per lb.? See infrà, p. 6. |