UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 96, 6 April 1934, Page 7

UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE

Examination Regulation* By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 5. School certificate examination regulations gazetted to-night set out the examination to be held annually in conjunction with the entrance examination of the New Zealand University. Every applicant for a certificate must furnish evidence of the completion at a secondary, technical, combined district high, or registered private secondary school of at least a three years' course of secondary instruction of a specified nature. To qualify for a certificate a candidate must pass the examination in English and at least four other subjects. Tho candidate may not enter at nne time for mbre than six subjects, but where both arithmetic and algebra and goomentrv are taken, they may enter for

The following are the subjects for examination: 1 English, 2 history, 3 geography, 4 Latin, 5 French, 6 German, 7 Greek, 8 Maori, 9 Arithmetic. 10 algebra and geometry, 11 mechanics, 12 heat and light, 13 electricity and magnetism, 14 chemistry Or 15 home science, 16 botany, 17 agriculture, 18 music, 19 drawing, 20 technical drawing, 21 economics, 22 bookkeeping, 23 shorthand and typing, 24 needlework, 25 housecraft, 26 technical electricity, 27 heat engines, 28 applied mechanics, 29 plane trigonometry (not with arithmetic), 30 physiology and hygiene, 31 general biology. Candidates in technical electricity must also take electricity and magnetism, and candidates in heat engines must also take heat and light. Candidates may obtain a partial pass by succeeding in at least four subjects and may complete in any subsequent year.