GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY.

Candidates are not permitted to answer more than one question in each section.

GEOGRAPHY.

SECTION I. Draw a map of

(a) Some county in which you have lived, inserting the rivers, hills, towns, and bounding counties.

Or, (b) One of the countries on the continent of Europe, with rivers, mountains, and lines of latitude and longitude.

Or, (c) Australia, India, or the Canadian Dominion, with the like additions.

SECTION II. Describe in words

(a) A voyage from London to Bristol, naming in order as many as you can of the headlands, bays, islands, and towns which you would pass on either hand.

Or, (b) The principal rivers of Scotland, with their courses, and the towns on their banks.

Give a

Or, (c) The great plain of Europe, the countries situated in it, their capitals and population. more minute description of Holland.

SECTION III. 1. Enumerate the British possessions in the Western Hemisphere, and give an account of one of them.

2. What possessions has the United Kingdom in Africa, and in what respect are any of them valuable? Describe Cape Colony, and Natal.

3. Describe the natural features of Australia, and name its divisions, the chief products and ports of each division, and the mode in which it is governed. In what does the value of Australia to the mother country chiefly consist ?

SECTION IV. 1. Name the great oceans on the earth's surface, and give their relative positions.

Which of them has the most islands? State what you know about the depth of the ocean, and its saltness. 2. Name the various countries of Asia, with the capital of each. Describe the Japan Islands.

3. Describe the territory covered by the United States of America, and name as many of those States as you

can. In what State and on what water (if any), are Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, Washington, Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco, Richmond, Buffalo, respectively?

HISTORY.

SECTION I. 1. Give the dates of the reigns of all the kings of England that have borne the name of Henry, and state to what dynasty each belonged. Describe the reign of Henry the First.

2. Do the same with respect to the kings of Scotland named James, and relate in detail the story of James the First.

SECTION II. 1. Give some account of the life and death of William Rufus. What historical edifice, still in existence, did he commence ?

2. Relate the story of Macbeth and Malcolm Canmore.

3. The granting of the great Charter by King John, and the chief provisions of that Charter.

SECTION III. 1. Relate the circumstances under which John Baliol became for a time king of Scotland. How did he lose his kingdom?

2. What was the origin of the Wars of the Roses? Describe the career of Warwick the king-maker.

3. Who was sovereign of England at the close of the 16th century, and what was the condition of the country as to power, government, laws, religion, and manners ?

SECTION IV. 1. Give an account of the reign of James the Second, and the Revolution of 1688.

2. Describe the latter years of Queen Anne's reign, and the circumstances under which George the First was seated on the throne.

3. Write a short account of three of the following persons, viz. :-Boadicea, The Venerable Bede, Canute the Great, Simon de Montfort, Roger Bacon, the Good Lord James Douglas, The Regent Murray, John Knox, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Thomas More.

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THREE HOURS allowed for this Paper, with that on Music.

SCHOOL MANAGEMENT.

Questions for Ex-Pupil Teachers are given in Sections I.-VI. (inclusive). Candidates who have not been Pupil Teachers must answer questions chiefly in Sections VI. and VII.

No Candidate is to answer more than six questions.

SECTION I. Describe the organization and teaching staff of the school in which you were apprenticed. What classes did you teach in the early part of your engagement, and when (if ever) did you begin to give collective or oral lessons?

SECTION II. Give a full account of any oral lessons that you remember to have given. What preparations did you make for it, what apparatus had you, and what use did you make of the black-board ?

SECTION III. Describe the manner in which you have been accustomed to conduct a reading lesson. Do you let the children read simultaneously, or only singly? How do you correct mistakes, and how do you endeavour to make the children understand what they read?

SECTION IV. Write full notes of a first lesson

(a) On numeration,

Or (b) On fractions.

SECTION V. 1. Were home lessons given in your school? and if so, how and when were they examined, and what subjects did they embrace? Did you think them beneficial or otherwise?

2. How were grammar, geography, and history taught, if taught at all? What text books (if any) were used, and what time was given to these subjects respectively?

SECTION VI. 1. Write a letter on the benefits which the general establishment of public elementary schools may be expected to confer on the rising generation.

2. What means would you employ, if you had a school of your own, with a view to impress deeply upon your scholars the duty of being kind to each other and to dumb animals ?

3. Give an easily intelligible exposition, as you would to a class of children, of the following stanza

Music.

"Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,

The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."

Write it out in the order of prose.

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SECTION VII. 1. If you have not been a pupil teacher, what education have you had, what do you know about teaching, and with what expectations do you now seek to enter a training college?

2. What do you consider to be the uses of a playground, and how would you endeavour to make it subservient to the discipline of a school? To what extent (if any) would you take a personal part in the children's play ?

3. Write an essay upon the duties and indispensable qualifications of an elementary teacher, the personal habits which ought to be cultivated, the faults which have to be guarded against, and the example that should be set.

MUSIC.

THREE HOURS allowed for this Paper and the one on School Management together.

The Tonic Sol-fa questions are printed in italic.

Candidates

must keep entirely to one set of questions or the other.

1. What proportions do a semibreve, a minim, a crotchet, and a quaver bear to each other?

1. What is the use of a bar?

2. How many major thirds are there in a major scale, and on which notes of it are they found?

2. What is a pulse?

3. What are the emphasized notes in an average bar of common time?

3. What do you understand by (1) the first flat? (2) the first sharp key?

4. Write over each of the following signatures tho name of the major key it indicates.

4. How many little steps are there in the diatonic scale, and where do they occur?