SCHOOL CERTIFICATE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12615, 6 April 1934, Page 4

SCHOOL CERTIFICATE.

REGULATIONS ANNOUNCED.

THIRTY-ONE SUBJECTS

PUce+ric T'legraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, Last Night. The school certificate examination regulations, Gazetted to-night, set out that the examination shall be held annually in conjunction with the. entrance examination ot the New Zealand University. Every applicant for a certificate must fur*liish evidence of the completion a secondary, technical, district liign, or registered private secondary school of at least a vears' 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 both arithmetic and algebra and geometry are taken he may enter for seven. The following are the subjects for the examination: (1) English, 01) history, (3) geography, (4) Latin, (5) French, (6) German, (7) Greek, (8) Maori, (9) arithmetic, (Kb 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 beat en- - gines 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.