The Examinations with chalk on the blackboard are held during January, February and March (for conditions see § XXI. Art (b) of the Directory). Such objects as mathematical instruments, drawing boards, squares, lenses, coloured chalks, pen-knives, magnets, &c., may be used by candidates at SCIENCE Examinations, to afford them reasonable facilities in their work. (N.B.-It must be understood that all articles, except pens, ink, and paper to be used by the candidates at either the Science or the Art Examinations, must be provided by the candidates themselves). * Examinations in Practical Inorganic Chemistry are held in approved Laboratories only. They consist of two parts, viz., a practical examination and a written examination, which will be held as above. In Laboratories where the Board have sanctioned the practical examination in two divisions, the second division in the Advanced Stage will be examined from 2.45 to 6.45 p.m., and in the Elementary Stage from 2.15 to 4.30 p.m. The practical examination for the first division and the written examination for both divisions in the respective Stages will be held at the times stated in the time table above. a. Application for the examination of a School or Class under approved Managers must be made in accordance with the rules of the Directory. b. External Students, i.e., students who do not belong to any regularly constituted Science or Art Class, should apply for admission to these Day Exam nations not la er than the 23 h April to the Special Local Secretary of the nearest District, or to the Secretary to the Managers of the nearest School where an examination in the subject they require will be held Applications for the above examinations must be headed" Day Examinations." The Special Local Secretary or the Managers may charge external candidates a fee not exceeding 2s. 6d. for each morning or afternoon for which they register their names for Examination in a subject other than Xp., for which the fee may be 3s. 6d. c. No student is eligible to sit for the day examination in any subject in which he has already been examined at the evening examination of the same year. d. No candidate may be examined in more than one stage of any subject of Science in the sa ne year except in (1) Mathematics, in which subject he may take one stage in each of the two groups of stages into which the examination in this subject is divided, and (2) Hygiene, in which subject he may take the examination in Section I. and in Section II. of the Elementar Stage. As the Elementary Stage of Subject VIII. is common to the three sub-divisions into which the subject is divided for the Advanced Stage, candidates who take the Elementary Stage are not eligible to take in the same year the Advanced Stage of any of the inree subdivisions of the subject. Who may act 23 Superintendenta. Number of Superinten dents required. RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR LOCAL SCIENCE Form 91 N.B. No one has any authority to modify the following rules in any particular. I. RULES. SUPERINTENDENCE OF EXAMINATIONS. 1. The examinations must be conducted by either approved Managers, or Special Local Secretaries and their Assistants. 2. The minimum number of Superintendents required in each examination room according to the number of Candidates sitting for examination is as follows: Managers acting as Superinter dents may relieve each Scher For the Modelling Examinations and the Casting the number of Superintendents for each room must be as follows 1961. 19h. Modelling from the Antique (One Superintendent for 8 or less Candidates; 23e & 23f. Modelling Design and Cast-J Two Superintendents for from 9 to 20 Candidates; and one additional Superintendent for each further 10 or fraction of 10 Candidates. Two Superintendents for 20 or less Candidates, and one additional Superintendent for each further 10 or fraction of 10 Candidates. * See also as to opening of Model Drawing Instructions in par. 20. 3. When Managers conduct the examinations they may relieve one another, provided that the required number of Superintendents be present during the whole time of the examination 4. When a Special Local Secretary's Assistants act as Superintendents, Attendance of the Managers are relieved from the conduct of the examinations; some of Managers to identify the Managers, however, should attend for a time on each occasion that their School is examined to identify their own Students. 5. When the examinations are conducted by a Special Local Secretary and his Assistants, the Managers must see that the examination of their class does not fail from accidental circumstances; in case of the unavoidable absence of the Special Local Secretary, or his Assistant a Manager should take his place. students. Managers supplying place of Special Local Secretary or Assistant. Who allowed to 6. Only Candidates, Superintendents, Managers, Members of Organizations recognised under Clause VII. of the Directory, and Officers of the be present. Board of Education may be present at any examination. ARRANGEMENT OF EXAMINATION ROOM. 7. Candidates must be seated so as to be not less than 5 feet apart from Allotting seats. centre to centre, except at certain examinations in Art (see par. 20). The Superintendents must provide ink, pens, ruled foolscap paper, tracing paper for those subjects in which it is allowed (see Examination Time Tables Forms 90 and 90d), and pins or paper fasteners. All diagrams Diagrams to be etc., having reference to the subjects of the examination must be removed removed. from the walls of the examination room. The examinations should as far as possible be held in rooms with level floors, i.e., without galleries. 8. All these arrangements must be completed half an hour before the Completion of time fixed for commencing the examination. ADMISSION OF CANDIDATES. arrangements. 9. Only those candidates may be admitted whose names have been Admitting returned to the Board of Education, and on whose behalf due application candidates. has been made for papers of questions in accordance with the rules of the Directory. ALL THE CANDIDATES MUST BE IN THEIR PLACES AT LEAST TEN MINUTES BEFORE the time fixed for commencing the examination; a candidate may be admitted afterwards, only under VERY EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, and provided that no candidate who has seen the examination questions has left the room. If a candidate is admitted late, his name, the time of his arrival, and the exceptional circumstances under which he was admitted, must be stated in the spaces provided for the purpose on the Form of certificate. No candidate may on any account be admitted after the expiration of half an hour from the time fixed for commencing the examination, except as shown in paragraph 28. No candidate must be allowed to leave before the expiration of one hour (or half an hour in the case of the written eramination in Practical Chemistry) from the commencement of the examination, and no candidate must be re-admitted after having once left the room. To obviate the hardship which might accrue to a candidate prohibited re-admission, the Board of Education will not object to some arrangement for enabling candidates to retire within the room. 10. The Superintendents may permit the teacher of the class to assist in Teacher getting the candidates into their places, and in seeing that they fill up the assisting in slips attached to their numbered forms and that they are provided with arrangements. all they require according to the rules. He must, however, unless he is himself a candidate, leave the room before the envelopes containing the examination questions, or parcels containing the specimens for examination, are opened; and must not be re-admitted to it until the bags or cases containing the worked papers have been finally fastened up for despatch to the Board: his presence during any part of an examination, at which he is not himself examined, will involve the cancelling of such examination. If he is himself Examination of a candidate, he must apply specially to the Superintendents, in order that Teacher. they may accommodate him in the room apart from the other candidates. No books, &c., allowed. Distribution of numbered Papers. Returning packet of questions or examples, if no examination held. Examining and opening packets of questions, &c. Reading regulations. of questions allowed. Candidates may not bring anything into the examination room, except pens, india-rubber, and pencils, and such articles as are specified in pars. 19 and 31. All books, note-books, &c., other than those mentioned in pars. 19 and 31, must be given up to the Superintendents before the examination questions are distributed. DISTRIBUTION OF NUMBERED PAPERS. 11. The numbered papers or canvases supplied for the use of the candidates should be first distributed, and the Superintendents should see that the candidates commence by filling in their names, &c., where directed. The distribution of the numbered papers or canvases should be completed ten minutes before the time fixed for the examination to begin. Should no candidate present himself for examination, or if for any other reason the Registered envelope of examination questions is not required, it must be returned UNOPENED to the Secretary, Board of Education, South Kensington, London, S. W., by the next post. CONDUCT OF THE EXAMINATION. 12. Five minutes before the time fixed for commencing the examination each packet of examination questions, examples or parcel of specimens for examination must be carefully examined by the Superintendents, who before opening them must ascertain that they have not been tampered with. (See par. 21, as to opening of cases of casts and canvases, and par. 29 as to opening parcels of test substances.) They must then be opened in the examination room, and in accordance with the instructions printed on the envelope, or on the label attached to the parcel. Under no circumstances whatever, except where the presence of but one Superintendent is required, as shown in par. 2, may a packet of examination questions, or a parcel of specimens for examination, be opened when one Superintendent only is present; such a course alone suffices to annul the examination. THE REGULATIONS PRINTED ON THE EXAMINATION PAPER, OR ON THE PAPER OF SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS, FOR EACH SUBJECT MUST BE READ TO THE CANDIDATES IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE EXAMINATION COMMENCES. Only one paper The questions must be distributed punctually at the time fixed for commencing the examination, and on those evenings on which there are two or more subjects of examination, special care must be taken that no student has a paper of questions in more than one subject. No paper of questions or specimen may be given to any candidate until he has filled up the slip attached to his numbered form, and this numbered form, with slip attached, must be returned to the Board of Education, South Kensington, even if the candidate does no work on it. No paper of questions may be taken from the room on any pretext until every candidate shall have completed and given up his worked paper. Additional foolscap paper allowed. Vigilant and silent supervision necessary. 13. The answers of the candidates must be written in ink, unless otherwise directed. When a candidate has filled the whole of the numbered form supplied to him for his answers in subjects in which written answers are required, he may be furnished with loose sheets of blank foolscap which should be marked at the top by the candidate with the number given on his numbered paper, initialled by a Superintendent, and at once attached to that paper. 14. The Superintendents must give their whole attention to the examination, and must see that candidates use no unfair means, either by assisting one another, by using books or notes (except as allowed in pars. 19 and 31), or other wise. They are also particularly requested not to talk unnecessarily, as it tends to disturb the candidates; nor should cbservations be made on the candidates' work. It is advisable that Superintendents should not remain seated in one place during the examination, and one of them should as often as possible place himself behind the candidates. Should a breach of the regulations necessitate the cancelling of a paper, the Superintendents should state full particulars upon the candidate's slip and authenticate these particulars by their initials. 15. At the hour fixed for closing the examination, or as much sooner as all the candidates have completed their work, the worked papers must be collected. Before a Superintendent takes a candidate's work from him, he must see that the slip attached to the paper is properly filled up, and then initial it in order to prevent personation; he must be careful not to treat this duty as a mere matter of form. A candidate who has given up his work must at once leave the room Collecting and initialling worked papers. 16. At the close of each examination the worked papers, etc., together Fastening up with the form of certificate duly filled up, and the envelope or envelopes bag of papers. which contained the examination questions, must be fastened up, in the canvas bag supplied for that purpose, in the presence of at least two Superintendents, except when the presence of but one Superintendent is required as shown in par. 20. A separate Certificate is required for each subject and for each examination room should more than one be used. When an examination is held in more than one subject on the same day at the same centre, the worked papers for each subject must be fastened up in a separate bag. Before the bag is thus made up no unauthorised person may enter the room. SHOULD THE EXAMINATION HAVE BEGUN LATE, NO ALLOWANCE CAN BE MADE; THE PAPERS MUST BE 17. At the conclusion of each examination it will be the duty of some Posting the one of the Superintendents to immediately post the bag or package con- papers. taining the candidates' worked papers at the nearest post office, and this duty must not be deputed to any other person. In the case of evening examinations, if the parcel cannot be posted overnight, it must be kept in safe custody, and posted at the nearest post office in time for collection by an early post next morning. 18. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE LAST EXAMINATION all that is unused Returning of the material, &c., supplied by the Board must be packed up and unused Materials, &c returned to the Secretary, Board of Education, South Kensington, London, S.W. In addition to the foregoing rules, numbered 1-18, which apply generally to both Science and Art Examinations, the following rules have special reference to particular examinations. RULES SPECIAL TO SCIENCE SUBJECTS (I., II., III., IV., Vo., XX. AND XXI. 19. In Subjects I., II., III, and IV., the drawings may be done in Use of Drawpencil; only one numbered sheet of drawing paper, to which is attached a ing, foolscap sheet of foolscap, squared paper, and blotting paper, is to be given to each paper, &c. candidate, but this may be supplemented by as much more blank foolscap as the candidate requires, the foolscap being marked and attached as mentioned in par. 13. Such objects as mathematical instruments, drawing boards, squares, lenses, coloured chalks, penknives, magnets, &c., may be used by candidates at SCIENCE Examinations, to afford them reasonable facilities in their work, but these articles must be provided by the candidates themselves. In Subject Vp. (Practieal Mathematics) slide-rules; in Subjects XX. and XXI., Mathematical Tables without any treatise, and in addition in Subject XXI. the Nautical Almanac for the current year, will be required (see Form 1153). (See also pars. 1-18.) RULES SPECIAL TO ART SUBJECTS. allotted to 20. At the examinations in Freehand Drawing, Model Drawing, Drawing Space to be in Light and Shade from a Cast, Drawing and Modelling from the Antique, each Candidate Drawing and Modelling from Life, and Painting from Still Life, candidates must be placed so as to be not less than two feet six inches apart from each other from centre to centre; at all the other Art Examinations, candidates |