11. Find the true discount on a bill for £457. 18s. Od. drawn on Sept. 12 at 5 months, and discounted on Jany. 13 at 4 per cent. 12. A tradesman owes £800., payable in 2 years; when will a payment of £780. clear off the debt with discount at 6 per cent.? 13. How much wine at 168. 8d. per gall. must be mixed with wine at 25s. Od. per gall. in order to have 250 gallons at 19s. 2d.? 14. A person received £800 for a loan of £600. at 3 per cent. compound interest; how many years had the loan been running? GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION. Every Candidate is required to perform the exercise in Composition and to do the paraphrase and parsing. COMPOSITION. SECTION I. Write in plain language an essay on one of the following subjects: 1. Cleanliness. 2. "Knowledge is Power." 3. What you understand by "Literature" as taught in Elementary Schools? How would you teach it? And what advantages would you expect to accrue from the teaching of it? 4. The subject matter contained in Milton's Paradise Lost, Book II, or Wordsworth's Excursion, Book IX. GRAMMAR. SECTION II. Express in clear and simple language, one of the following passages: MILTON P. L. II. 975-987. "I seek What readiest path leads where your gloomy bounds I travel this profound; direct my course; WORDSWORTH's Excursion, Book 9. "And may it not be hoped, that, placed by age To the vast multitude; whose doom it is SECTION III. Parse the words in italics in the passage which you have explained. SECTION IV. Analyse the following sentences taken from Wordsworth, or from Milton. "And may it not be hoped, that, placed by age "Ah! what a pity were it to disperse, "There is a place WORDSWORTH. (If ancient and prophetic fame in Heaven In power and excellence, but favoured more MILTON. SECTION V. 1. Distinguish (with examples) between the following words : Make and create. Pardon and forgive. 2. Spell the following words so as to show more clearly the root of each:-treacle, syren, pigmy, gossip, bran-new, nostril, wassail, whole, island, poltroon, courtcard, welsh-rabbit, step-mother, salary, grey-hound. 3. Give rules to determine how words, spelt alike, are to be designated as adverbs or prepositions in a sentence, with examples. 4. Classify conjunctions and show the different modes in which they join or dis-join sentences. 1 SCHOOL MANAGEMENT. The questions on School Registers, at the end, must not than five other questions may be answered. 1. Describe the different systems of organization for Elementary Schools with which you are acquainted, and explain the particular organization of the Practising School specially connected with your Training College. 2. On what principle have you been taught to distinguish between a Gallery and a Class lesson? Explain your answer by an illustration. 3. To what extent may the "Kinder garten system be introduced into a school where very young children are admitted? Describe generally the benefit of this system; and mention any details which you have been taught to consider impracticable. 4. The honour of a School Teacher is implicated if the Registers of her School are not kept with the most extreme care and accuracy. Explain as to a Pupil Teacher, of age sufficient to take a Register, the method by which she should ascertain the presence or absence of each child day by day, and test the accuracy of the Register when marked. 5. Explain as to an Assistant Teacher the different work which should be arranged for in an Upper Class of girls during one quarter of a year; and state briefly the amount of time to be devoted to each subject during the week. 6. Describe carefully the system which you intend to adopt for teaching Reading in your School from the lowest to the highest class of children; and name the time to be devoted to this subject in each class week by week. 7. On what principle should a time table be drawn out? Explain the benefit of a well arranged time table; draw out a time table for a Girls' School with 120 children. 8. What should be done in a School by a Teacher to secure good discipline? What would you include under the term "Discipline"? 9. "Courage may be displayed in every day life.. There needs, for example, the common courage to "be honest, the courage to resist temptation, the courage "to speak the truth, the courage to be what we really (6 are, not to pretend to be what we are not, the courage "to live honestly within our own means, and not dis"honestly on the means of others." By what means would you inculcate and enforce this moral discipline amongst your School children under each different head? School Registers. Explain the use of the Admission and Class Registers. Fill up the following table for 1 week-give the average age of Class-number of children present at all-average number of attendances made by each Child—and the average number present during the week. |