Report of Her Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners, Together with Appendices, Volume 41Eyre and Spottiswoode., 1897 |
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1st Cl 2nd Cl 31st December Admiralty appointed Assistant Clerk Abstractor Boy Clerks Boy Copyists Britannia Candidates at Open candidates no certificates Candidates nomi CEYLON CIVIL SERVICE Civil Service Commission Civil Service Commissioners CLASS OF SITUATION Clause VII Clerk Abstractor Class Clerkships competitive examinations Competitors Copyists or Messengers COUNTY SURVEYORS IRELAND DEPARTMENT AND CLASS DEPARTMENT the NUMBER Dublin Eastern Cadetships examinations for admission FAILED in Preli FUL in Competition held India Civil Service Ireland IRISH LAND COMMISSION June Junior Clerk limits of AGE Litt Lower Division Majesty's Mathematics Merchant Taylors minary Examination Mods nated singly nated to compete Naval Navy Cadets Nomination Number of Persons Open Compe Open Competitions Order in Council Oxford PASSED the Preli Post Office Professor qualified registered as Copyists REJECTED on Examination Revision of Scheme Royal Military Academy Royal Military College Second Division Secretary Sinhalese subjects syllabus Third Class Clerk University candidates vaccination War Office
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Page 54 - Naval Cadetships are made by the First Lord, with the exception of a limited number which are at the disposal of individual members of the Board, and of the Secretaries to the Board of Admiralty. A Flag Officer or a Commodore...
Page 40 - Arithmetic ; algebra up to and including the binomial theorem ; the theory and use of logarithms ; Euclid, Books I. to IV. and VI. ; plane trigonometry up to and including solution of triangles ; mensuration.
Page 54 - Class may claim the privilege each time he is appointed to a command as above. In the event of a candidate's nomination being cancelled before he has commenced the examination, the Officer who nominated him will be allowed to select another candidate for the same or following examination. 4. The nominations will be made three times a year, as soon as convenient after the Report of the last examination has been received from the Civil Service Commissioners.
Page 40 - The elementary parts of Statics; namely, the equilibrium of forces acting in one plane and of parallel forces, force diagrams, the centre of gravity, the mechanical powers, friction, virtual work.
Page 40 - A considerable portion of the marks will be given for proficiency shown in the practical part of the examination. A knowledge of the metric system will be expected. Chemistry. — The laws of chemical combination and decomposition, and the preparation, classification, and properties of the principal metallic and non-metallic elements, and of such of their compounds as are treated of in inorganic chemistry. In the practical part of the examination, only the more ordinary apparatus and the less dangerous...
Page 54 - Cadetships should be addressed to the Military Secretary, Horse Guards, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Army ; to the Secretary of the Admiralty, if the candidate is tte ton of an officer of the Navy or Marines, and to the Military Secretary, India Office, if the candidate i» th« Mjn of an officer of the Indian Army.
Page 54 - A fee of /i will be required from each candidate for examination. 2. Except in special circumstances, not more than one-third of the number of candidates actually presenting themselves before the Civil Service Commissioners will be entered. 3. All nominations of candidates...
Page 40 - Latin pmse and verse, but candidates will be allowed, in the place of verse composition, to answer questions of a simple character, which will test whether they possess a fundamental knowledge of the grammar of the language, and such an elementary acquaintance with Roman History, as is required for the intelligent...
Page 54 - Candidates must be of pure European descent, and the sons either of natural-born British subjects, or of parents naturalised in the United Kingdom. If any doubt arises upon this question, the burden of clear proof that he is qualified will rest upon the candidate. 3.
Page 45 - Propositions i and 2 ; geometrical conic sections ; the elementary properties common to the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola ; dynamics and statics, uniform and uniformly accelerated rectilinear motion, uniform circular motion, motion of projectiles (not requiring a knowledge of the parabola), equilibrium of forces in one plane and of parallel forces, the centre of mass, and the construction and use of the simpler machines. Mathematics III, — Geometrical conic sections ; analytical geometry, the...