SCHOOL CERTIFICATES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 81, 6 April 1934, Page 6

SCHOOL CERTIFICATES

EXAMINATION TO BE PASSED REGULATIONS GAZETTED. REQUIREMENTS TO QUALIFY. f Per Presa Association. 1 WELLINGTON, April 5. School certificate examination regulations were gazetted to-night. They 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 completion at a secondary, technical, combined district high or registered private secondary school of at least a threc-ycars’ course of secondary instruction of a specified nature. To qualify for a certificate a candidate must pass an examination in English and at least four other subjects. The candidate may not enter at one time for more than six subjects, but where both arithmetic and algebra and geometry are taken, may enter for seven. The following are 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 engine; 28, applied 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 engine must also take heat and light. Candidates may obtain a partial pass by succeeding in at least four subjects, and my complete in any subsequent year.