SCHOOL CERTIFICATE TEST.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 108, 6 April 1934, Page 4

SCHOOL CERTIFICATE TEST.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SYSTEM

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 5. The school certificate examination regulations, gazetted to-night, set out that the examination shall 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 a.t a secondary, technical, combined district high, or registered private secondary school of at least a three years’ course of secondary instruction of a specific nature. To qualify for the certificate a candidate must pass an examination in English and at least four other subjects. A candidate may not enter at one time for more than six subjects, but where arithmetic and algebra and geometry are taken he may enter for seven.

The following are the subjects for the examination:—(l) 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) botanv, (17) agriculture, (18) music, (19) drawing, (20) technical drawing, (21) economics, (22) bookkeeping. (23) shorthand aud 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, j and may complete in any subsequent i vear.